Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: efuleky27@punahou.edu · Web: https://efuleky27.github.io
Updated: September 1, 2026
Contact
Emma Fuleky
Punahou School, Honolulu, HI
Email: efuleky27@punahou.edu
Web: https://efuleky27.github.io
Education
- Punahou School, Honolulu, HI Expected June 2027
- High School Diploma
- GPA: 3.95/4
- 8 Honors and 8 AP classes
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, AP Physics 1 2026 - 2027
- Mentor ~20 students through coursework, answer questions and explain difficult concepts
Research
- Disentangling the Cosmic Web 2026
- Focus: The Relationship Between Walls and Other Cosmic Structures
- Built an automated pipeline using Python, Globus, DisPerSE, and ParaView to extract and quantify walls, filaments, and clusters from a Quijote N-body simulation (134-million-particles tiled into 40 blocks to fit in memory)
- Found that ~99% of filaments lie within walls and that walls hold ~51% of all particles at z = 0, showing that walls are structurally fundamental to the cosmic web
- Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist
- Project website: https://efuleky27.github.io/disperse/
- Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter 2025
- Focus: The Link Between the Early Universe and Modern Cosmology
- Gathered 10 published observational limits and numerically integrated them to find the largest share of dark matter that primordial black holes could account for: ~30.5% under the strictest set.
- Hawaii State Science Fair Finalist
Awards and Honors (since 2023)
- Finalist, Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), Phoenix, AZ 2026
- New American University Merit Scholarship Award, Arizona State University
- Finalist, Society for Science Alumni special award
- 1st Place, Physics and Astronomy, Hawaii State Science Fair 2026
- Top 12 project overall out of more than 150 state-level finalists
- Hawaii Astronomical Society Award
- NASA Earth System Science Award
- Yale Science and Engineering Award (ISEF district affiliate) 2026
- Best Delegate in Advanced Committee, Hawaii Pacific International Model UN Conference 2026
- Member, National Honor Society 2026
- Finalist, Hawaii State Science Fair 2025
- Finalist, Hawaii State Debate Championship 2024, 2025
- 1st Place, Beginning Public Forum Debate, Oahu District 2024
- Punahou Academic Achievement Awards
- Award of Recognition, AP Chemistry and AP Physics 1 & 2 2026
- Award of Recognition, Chemistry Honors 2025
- Award of Recognition, Biology Honors; Award of Excellence, English 2024
Presentations
- Invited speaker, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Scheduled September 2026
- Disentangling the Cosmic Web: The Relationship Between Walls and Other Cosmic Structures
- Advocate for NASA Citizen Science/GLOBE program, Slovakia Summer 2026
- Guest presentations at two schools in Slovakia, delivered in English and Hungarian
- Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, Phoenix, AZ 2026
- Hawaii State Science Fair 2025, 2026
- Sun Day Sundae Sunday, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum November 2024
- Hosted a booth at this public heliophysics event
Activities and Leadership
- Science
- Founder and Leader, Punahou Research and Science Club 2025 - present
- Established a research club at Punahou to help students develop their own projects
- Hosted a professor from the University of Hawaiʻi to talk about their research and profession (more scheduled)
- Mentored 4 students and helped them qualify for state and international level science fairs
- Founder and Leader, Punahou Research and Science Club 2025 - present
- Astronomy
- Co-President, Punahou Astronomy Club 2024 - present
- Currently building a hydrogen-line (HI) horn telescope to measure the rotation curve of the Milky Way using GNU Radio software
- Presented to club members about the solar system, comets and meteorites, moon phases, the lunar landing, and telescope optics
- Hosted a booth at Sun Day Sundae Sunday, an outreach event on heliophysics, at the Bishop Museum
- Planned star and planet observation parties
- Co-Leader, Pauahi Telescope Project 2026 - present
- Campaigning to return a working telescope to the historic dome atop Punahou’s Pauahi Hall
- Co-President, Punahou Astronomy Club 2024 - present
- Communication
- Member, Punahou Debate Team 2023 - present
- Competed in 10 tournaments at the county and state level; qualified for the state championship twice
- Member, Punahou Model UN 2023 - present
- Served on beginner and advanced committees addressing trade, peace, climate change, and pandemic response
- Served as co-chair (2x) and crisis director (1x) in advanced commitees
- Best Delegate award in 2026 (Advanced Joint-Crisis Committee)
- Member, Punahou Debate Team 2023 - present
- Fundraising and Community Service
- Food Division Head, Punahou Carnival 2025 - 2026
- Led and trained 130 students across 13 food booths, managed shifts and supplies across 200+ hours
- The team sold over 100,000 malasadas and other food items to about 40,000 attendees
- Punahou Student Ambassador 2021 - present
- Gave campus tours, joined student panels, and shared my experience with prospective families; 50+ hours of service
- Camp counselor and language mentor, Hawaii Hungarian School Association 2013 - present
- Led camp activities, taught Hungarian language and culture to younger students; 200+ hours
- Food Division Head, Punahou Carnival 2025 - 2026
Outreach
- NASA Citizen Science Summer 2026
- Contributed over 50 cloud observations to NASA’s GLOBE database
- Interviewed a NASA Science Education Outreach Coordinator; shared highlights with the Punahou community
- Introduced the program to students at two schools in Slovakia, presenting in English and Hungarian
Skills
- Technical
- Programming: Python
- Scientific visualization: ParaView
- Topological data analysis: DisPerSE (Delaunay tessellation, Morse–Smale complexes)
- Technical writing: Quarto/Markdown, LaTeX
- Development tools: Git/GitHub, VS Code, Positron, AI assistants (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot)
- Photo editing: Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop
- Languages
- English - native
- Hungarian - native
- Completed 3rd grade at a school in Hungary (language of instruction: Hungarian)
- Spanish - conversational (B2 level)
- Summer study in Madrid (2024), Barcelona (2025), and Seville (2026)
Athletics and Arts
- Open water swimming
- Waikiki Swim Club member and regular competitor in biathlon races (5 km run / 1 km swim), Waikiki Roughwater Swim (3.9 km), Duke’s Ocean Mile (1.6 km), and Crossing of Lake Balaton, Hungary (5.2 km)
- Dance
- Regular stage performances with the Punahou jazz ballet ensemble