Max Wang is a senior at the Isaac M. Bear Early College High School who is enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is investigating silk-based microfluidic lung-on-a-chip models through the 2023 Belin-Blank SSTP program.

More information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwang06/

Past projects/experience:

· Summer Ventures at UNCW | Student Investigator | Using novel transition matrix features and segmentation schemes in machine learning classification of atrial fibrillation (2020-2021, virtual)

· The Wang Lab, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UNCW | Student Investigator | In-vitro validation of a machine learning model to predict pathogenic cataract-inducing mutations in the eye lens crystallin alpha-B (2022- )

· Captain of Isaac Bear Science Olympiad (2021- ) and Isaac Bear Math Competition Club (2022- )

· Founder and President of Isaac Bear Research Club, supporting area high school research initiatives (2022- )

Honors:

· ISEF Finalist, Biomedical and Health Sciences (2023)

· 1st place at NC State Science Fair in Biology (2023), 2nd place at NC State Science Fair in Mathematics/Statistics (2022, virtual) · Publication in MDPI Sensors; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073700

· “Best High School Presentation” at International Mathematics and Statistics Students Research Symposium (2022, virtual)