Afeef Sheikh, a senior at the Nikola Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, received the Global Award for the Best Student Paper at the 2016 Global Online Conference for Information and Computer Technology (GOCICT) held in Louisville, Kentucky from Nov. 16-18.

He was the only high school student selected amongst a speaker panel from across 11 countries to present to a worldwide community of researchers, developers and practitioners in information technology, computer science and other related emergent fields.

His research paper has been accepted by a global technical review committee for publishing. Sheikh’s paper, titled, “Utilizing an Augmented Reality System to Address Phantom Limb Syndrome in a Cloud-based Environment,” is being published in the International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing this month, as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Xplore in March. The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional online journal with approximately half a million members across 160 countries.