Jiacheng (Ben) Li
California
Arcadia High School
Jiacheng (Ben) Li, 18, of Arcadia, proposed a new way to detect and correct data transmission errors for the computer science project
he submitted to the Intel Science Talent Search. Ben examined a concept called lightweight fault tolerance that seeks to prevent errors during
digital signal processing, something that is of critical importance for spacecraft systems, which he studied during a summer NASA internship. Ben
believes his solution demonstrates an improved method for handling errors in digital processors, and offers a significant reduction in hardware
overhead and power consumption while reducing size requirements. His work may enable robust fault tolerance in spacecraft radar and instrument
signal processing, and could have many commercial applications. Ben attends Arcadia High School and represented the U.S. at the 2011
International Physics Olympiad in Thailand. The son of Rukun Li and Lu Yang, Ben enjoys hiking, rollerblading, playing piano and composing, and
volunteers at a local hospital for several hours each week. A native of China, he speaks Mandarin and is teaching himself Japanese. He filed a
patent application last summer and aspires to start his own technology company.
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