Earlier this month, rising senior Ella Lan won first place in a competition sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Dallas. Lan’s project, which presents a new way to detect diabetes using AI, won her a $1,500 cash prize and an invitation to the AAAI Conference in Vancouver, to be held in February. The AAAI ISEF Awards were established in 1999 to “recognize outstanding achievement in the area of intelligent computation and robotics,” according to AAAI’s website. Lan’s project also won the Second Award in the Translational Medical Science category at the ISEF.