Two separate research teams featuring Bethpage High School students have had their work published in academic journals this year, a distinction that places these young scientists alongside credentialed researchers and university faculty.
Juniors Aryaan Khalfan and Matthew Tusa co-authored a paper on using machine vision to translate American Sign Language. The paper, The Translation of American Sign Language (ASL) with the Application of Machine Vision, was published on SSRN, a widely used open-access repository for scholarly research. The work explores how computer vision systems can be developed and applied to recognize and interpret ASL, a field with meaningful implications for accessibility and communication technology.
Junior Ritvik Saha’s paper was published on arXiv, the preprint server widely used across mathematics and the sciences, as part of a research collaboration with faculty and students at SUNY New Paltz. The paper, A Central Limit Theorem for the Signatures of 2-Bridge Knots, addresses an advanced problem in mathematical knot theory.
Having student-authored research accepted for publication in academic venues is a rare achievement at the secondary level. For Aryaan, Matthew and Ritvik, it represents not only a personal academic accomplishment but also a signal of the depth of scientific inquiry taking place at Bethpage High School.