YRI Fellowship students have published first-author papers at IEEE conferences, in Springer proceedings and at international venues in Washington DC, Tokyo, Glasgow, Riga, Sydney and beyond. Below is a curated list of those papers, grouped by field, with the student's first name and last initial, the venue, and a link to the publisher's own page wherever one exists.

If you heard the name YRI from another parent or a school counselor and want to see the work before anything else, this is the page. Every title below belongs to a YRI Fellow who was the first author. Many of them started the program with no research experience at all. The full, always-current list lives on Published Work, and the stories behind each paper are in Student Stories.

What a YRI Fellowship paper is

A YRI paper is original research. The student picks a question in a field they care about, works one-on-one with a PhD mentor every week for 10 weeks, and writes the manuscript themselves. YRI's research writers edit every draft to the standard a peer reviewer expects, and the publishing team picks the venue and handles the submission and the review process.

Three things make the list below worth reading closely:

  • The student is the first author. Every paper on the Published Work page has a YRI student as first author.
  • The venues are ones teachers and admissions officers recognize. Papers go to venues such as IEEE, Springer and Elsevier.
  • You can check them. Linked titles open on the publisher's site, such as IEEE Xplore. Others are accepted and scheduled for publication, and Published Work marks which is which.

Across the program, 87% of YRI Fellows publish, and mentorship continues at no extra cost until the paper is published. For the full numbers, see the YRI Fellowship success rate.

Papers you can open on IEEE Xplore today

Start here if you want proof in under a minute. Each of these links goes straight to the paper on the publisher's site.

Karan A.'s finance paper, Impact of Short-Duration Geopolitical Events on Indian Stock Market Returns, is listed by name on the accepted-papers index of the World Finance & Banking Symposium 2026 in Riga, Latvia.

YRI Fellowship papers by field

YRI matches each student with a PhD mentor in their own area, so the record spans far more than computer science. Here is the list, organized the way the Published Work page sorts it.

AI and computing

  • A Trust-Aware Framework for Reducing Data Exfiltration in LLM Agents Exposed to Indirect Prompt Injection, Rishik A., IEEE, 2026, accepted as a 9th grader (story)
  • Feasibility-Guaranteed Post-Processing for GCN-Based Minimum Vertex Cover, Manomay J., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Derivative Fidelity, Symbolic Discovery, and the Jitter Paradox in Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Nishanth A., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Validation Placement in Static Multi-UAV Language Planning: A Paired Failure-Containment and Compute Study, Mohammed A., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Beyond Final Answers: Explicit Belief-State Tracking in Compact Instruction-Tuned Language Models, Svanika D., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Empirical Solution-Gap and Stability Analysis of Matrix-Preconditioned Optimizers for Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Akshara R., IEEE, 2026
  • Comparative Evaluation of Emotion Extraction from Music: Balancing Model Accuracy and Hardware Constraints on Edge Devices, Gargi P., IEEE, 2026
  • Weed Emergence Risk Mapping (WERM): A Log-Space Multiplicative Framework for Pre-Emergence Risk Estimation from Field Imagery and Thermal Accumulation, Arham S., IEEE CIBCB 2026 in Greece (story)

Medicine and biology

This is the largest group in the YRI record, and it covers cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, women's health, genetics and global health.

  • Eye-Tracking Signatures for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease, Suriya D., IEEE EMBC 2026 in Toronto, accepted as a 9th grader (story)
  • Genomic Surveillance of 132 Immune Escape Mutations in Omicron Variants, Sai P., IEEE RCSM 2025 (story)
  • ECG Microstate Instability & Neuroimmune Pathways in Major Depressive Disorder, Devansh G., IEEE, 2025, first author at 14 (story)
  • AI-Enabled Low-Cost Point-of-Care Screening for Multi-Organ Diagnosis in Rural Healthcare, Abhigna N., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Uncertainty-Aware and Calibration-Guided Machine Learning for Predicting Cancer Immunotherapy Response, Akhilesh K., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • AI for Predicting Cancer Drug Response Using Multi-Omics Data, Arfa H., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Machine Learning Approaches for Lung Cancer Biomarker Discovery, Aarnav B., IEEE ICITSIF 2026 (story)
  • Astrobiology-Inspired Signal Processing and Machine Learning for EEG-Based Cognitive Impairment Recognition, Ayaan R., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • EEG Motor Imagery Signal Classification for Brain Computer Interfaces: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models, Aditya A., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • A Confidence-Weighted Soft-Voting Ensemble for Non-Invasive Endometriosis Risk Prediction Using Patient-Reported Symptoms and Clinical History, Harleen B., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Explainable Anemia Severity Screening Tool Using CBC Features, Melissa N., IEEE, 2026, accepted as a 9th grader (story)
  • Derivative-Synchrosqueezed Imaging of Photoplethysmography for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Estimation, Devansh D., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • AI-Driven Immunological Risk Predictor: Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Immune Responses to Cardiovascular Implants, Khyati S., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Interface-aware interpretation of missense variants in the five desmosomal genes (PKP2, DSP, DSG2, DSC2, JUP) in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, Ajwa A., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Leakage-Aware Text Classification for Auditing Incretin-Binge-Eating Evidence, Athena R., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • AI-Assisted Prediction Models for ACL Injury Risk and Recovery Time Using Basketball Athlete Performance Data, Ben Z., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • AI-Based Nail Disease Classification Using Image Characteristics and Deep Learning, Neil V., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Automated Filtering and Heatmap Matrix Transformation Engines for High-Throughput Sequence Data, Sidharth I., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Integrative Transcriptomic, Genomic, and Machine Learning Analysis Identifies Candidate Genes for Rice Salinity Tolerance, Tarek O., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Multi-Scale Wavelet-Entropy Representation and Gradient-Boosted Learning for Atrial Fibrillation Detection from Photoplethysmography, Samiksha R., IEEE, 2026
  • Sex-Stratified Machine Learning for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction, Sia R., IEEE, 2026
  • AlzAware-MSA-Net: Lightweight Dual-Path Morphology-Aware Multi-Scale Attention for Ordinal Alzheimer MRI Classification, Vaanya S., IEEE, 2026
  • Computational Design and Evaluation of Blood-Brain Barrier-Penetrant Peptide Therapeutics Targeting EGFRvIII in Glioblastoma, Aly D., IEEE CIBCB 2026, as a 10th grader (story)
  • AI-Driven Scaffold Design Optimization of 3D-Bioprinted Skin Grafts for Improved Burn and Chronic Wound Healing, Ryan V., IEEE ICIEA26 (story)
  • AI-based Computational Pipelines for Genomic Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine Applications in Modern Healthcare Systems, Atharv V., accepted at IEEE ICPCSN 2026 and IEEE ISASF 2026 in Sydney (story)
  • Replay-Gated Cascade Consolidation: A Spiking-Network Account of Replay, Consolidation, and Serial Position Effects, Ashwajit W., Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, presented at BICA 2026 in Merida, Mexico (story)

Engineering and robotics

  • SkyShield: Feasibility-Constrained Emergency Action Selection for Multirotor UAVs, Amaay G., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • MRI-Guided Personalized Helmet Liner Design Toward Head-Injury Prevention, Elliot W., BioMRH 2026 in Glasgow, proceedings published by Springer, as a 10th grader (story)
  • A comparative investigation of passive linear, symmetric bistable and tunably asymmetric vibration energy harvesters, Ariham J., IEEE, 2026, as a 10th grader (story)
  • A first-author paper on an adaptive digital twin for CNC machining, Adit A., IEEE, 2026 (story)

Physics and space

  • AI-Enhanced Fibre-Reinforced Composites for Aerospace Thermal Protection Systems, Arjun V., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Loss-Aware Modeling and Monte Carlo Validation of Fusion-Inspired Photonic Quantum Benchmarks, Raaghav G., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Early Warning of CDM Risk Escalation: Leakage-Controlled Trajectory Learning Under Operational Review Budgets, Krishik S., IEEE, 2026, accepted as a 9th grader (story)
  • Cadence-Risk Analysis for Short-Duration Exoplanet Transits: A Reproducible TESS-Like Injection-and-Recovery Study, Ana P., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • A Simplified Two-Zone Diffusion Study of Whether Geminga and Monogem Can Contribute to the Cosmic-Ray Positron Excess, Yuvan G., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Audited Sequential Detection of Solar Energetic Particle Events from NOAA GOES Proton Flux, Atria D., IEEE, 2026
  • AI-Assisted Optimization of Four-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution Using Machine Learning-Based OAM Alphabet Selection Under Simulated Atmospheric Turbulence, Taeho K., IEEE, 2026

Chemistry and environment

  • Interpretable Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Maximum Adsorption Capacity of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Heavy Metal Removal from Aqueous Systems, Naitik G., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Ishaan M. and Sai T., listed above with IEEE Xplore links, round out this group with research on waste tires and river cleanup.

Economics and finance

  • Privacy-Preserving Federated Ensemble Learning for Fair and Calibrated Financial Risk Assessment, Akul N., IEEE RCSM 2025, as a 9th grader (story)
  • Machine Learning-Based Uplift Modeling for Targeted Intervention Effect Analysis, Saanvi K., IEEE, 2026 (story)
  • Karan A.'s econometrics paper at the World Finance & Banking Symposium 2026 in Riga (story)

Beyond IEEE: other venues YRI Fellows have reached

IEEE is the most common home for YRI Fellowship papers, but it is far from the only one.

  • Three conferences, three countries. Aaryan S. had three first-author papers accepted at ISMB 2026 in Washington DC, ACM-BCB 2026 in Italy and IWBBIO 2026 in Spain, each on a different problem in computational biology. Read his story.
  • MIT URTC. Ansh K. published his Parkinson's disease research at MIT URTC, an IEEE-affiliated conference, and built a lung cancer detection model with 98.2% sensitivity. Read his story.
  • Springer, twice. Ashwajit W. went from enrollment to a Springer acceptance in two months, then had a second paper accepted for a poster at SPIE Medical Imaging 2027 in Vancouver. Elliot W.'s helmet study appears in Springer's Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.
  • Elsevier. Neil V. submitted research on evaluation bias in nail abnormality detection to an Elsevier journal as a 9th grader, alongside his IEEE paper.
  • Medicine. Shivi K. had an oral presentation and publication accepted at the 2026 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, as the only presenter under 25, and was then invited to give a research talk at Yale School of Medicine.

Why the venue matters to parents

A paper in a venue anyone can look up is different from a certificate. It is proof a stranger can check. Admissions readers, science fair judges and future professors can open the link and see your child's name in the first author position.

That is why YRI is built around the finished paper rather than the experience of doing research. If you want to know how to tell a respected venue from a pay-to-publish one, read our guide to journals that publish high school research. If you want to check YRI itself, Is YRI Fellowship legit? walks through every check a careful parent can make in about fifteen minutes.

How a YRI student gets from idea to published paper

The YRI Fellowship runs 10 weeks:

  1. Weeks 1 and 2, Discovery. Your child and their PhD mentor find the research question in the field they care about.
  2. Weeks 3 to 5, Research. They design the study and collect original data, held to peer-review standards from day one.
  3. Weeks 6 to 8, Write. The student writes the manuscript, with structured feedback from the mentor and editors.
  4. Weeks 9 and 10, Publish. The paper is submitted to a venue such as IEEE or Springer.

If a journal asks for changes, YRI keeps helping, free, until the paper is published. More on how mentors are matched is in YRI Fellowship mentors.

FAQ

Are YRI Fellowship papers peer reviewed?

Yes. The papers listed here were submitted to peer-reviewed venues such as IEEE conferences and Springer proceedings. Several reviewers' notes appear in the case studies, for example papers accepted with minor revisions.

Is the student the first author?

Yes. Every paper on YRI's Published Work page has a YRI student as first author.

Does my child need research experience to publish with YRI?

No. Most Fellows start with no research experience. Sai T. rated himself 1 out of 5 at coding before his IEEE paper, and Ryan V. learned Python during the program.

What fields can YRI students publish in?

Any field your child cares about. YRI matches students with PhD mentors in AI, medicine, physics, chemistry, economics, psychology and more.

How many YRI Fellows publish?

87% of Fellows publish, and mentorship continues at no extra cost until the paper is published.

Put your child's name on this list

Every name on this page started with an application. The Research Fellowship is $2,997, or 3 payments of $999, settled only after acceptance. Applying is free, there are no essays, and you hear back within 48 hours. See tuition for both programs side by side, or read what YRI is in plain terms.

Apply to the YRI Fellowship and give your child a paper they can point to for the rest of their life.

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