{"id":1030237,"date":"2026-08-21T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030237"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:54:41","slug":"17-year-old-new-jersey-high-schooler-edward-kang-built-an-ai-tool-that-reads-the-retina-for-autism-and-adhd-screening-and-won-175000-for-his-groundbreaking-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/17-year-old-new-jersey-high-schooler-edward-kang-built-an-ai-tool-that-reads-the-retina-for-autism-and-adhd-screening-and-won-175000-for-his-groundbreaking-research\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old New Jersey high schooler Edward Kang built an AI tool that reads the retina for autism and ADHD screening and won $175,000 for his groundbreaking research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old high school student has developed an artificial intelligence tool that could offer a new way to screen for autism and ADHD by looking at the retina. <\/p>\n<p>Edward Kang, a senior at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey, created RetinaMind, an AI-based screening prototype that analyzes retinal images for subtle patterns associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His project earned him second place and $175,000 at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old high school student has developed an artificial intelligence tool that could offer a new way to screen for autism and ADHD by looking at the retina. Edward Kang, a senior at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey, created RetinaMind, an AI-based screening prototype that analyzes retinal images for subtle patterns associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His project earned him second place and $175,000 at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030256,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030237\/revisions\/1030256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}