Ryan Honary is a multi-award-winning teen inventor and entrepreneur who has been actively putting his STEM-fueled passion for people, animals and the environment into action for years. Motivated by devastating wildfires in California, he created a patented AI-Driven Sensor Network for the early detection and growth prediction of wildfires. After winning numerous science awards, his project got the attention of Orange County Fire Authority who in February 2025 started deploying his product in high ignition risk areas in Orange County and was featured across national media. He received funding from Irvine Ranch Conservancy and formed a startup SensoRyAI in 2022. The platform can be used as a low-cost Early Warning System for various environmental hazards. In May 2025 at the International Science & Engineering Fair, the biggest global STEM competition for high schoolers, Ryan won various awards including 2nd place for the Grand Award in the Embedded Systems Category and a $15000 award from Office of Naval Research, and a $5000 1st Place Special Qorvo Innovator Award.  Also in April 2025, he finished second in California Science & Engineering Fair in the Environmental across all California high schoolers. In April 2024, his project became a Top-Ten global finalist at The Earth Prize, the largest global environmental competition for teenagers, out of thousands of submissions from over 100 countries. He is recipient of an issued patent as a sole inventor by the US Patent & Trademark Office. He is also the lead author of two published papers in peer reviewed journals in Proceedings of IEEE 2025 Global AI IOT Conference (where he also presented his paper at the conference) as well as ASME Open Journal of Engineering (where his paper has been on the Top 5 Most Read list since publication in January 2025 with >2700 page views, >600 downloads and 8 citations).

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He is also a UNESCO/Learning Planet Youth Fellow  and founded an educational non-profit Climate Solutions Society (CSS) in 2023, where he offers an open version of his SensoRyAI technology platform and mentoring for free to teenagers around the world to enable them to develop environmental solutions that they are passionate about. Both in 2023 and 2024 he was invited to make presentations to the United Nations Youth Summit in New York as a Youth Delegate to discuss AI and STEM education for teens and ways to further engage them. In 2023, Ryan won a grant from International Baccalaureate and United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network to help grow his non-profit. In its first year of creation, Climate Solutions Society has grown to 6 chapters across 6 high schools, and Ryan plans to grow it internationally. There are now multiple teenagers developing AI/STEM based solutions for various environmental problems leveraging the CSS educational platform. Ryan has been invited to numerous interviews, conferences and presentations regarding teen education, environmental activism, and the role AI and technology can play for the next generation. 

 

Ryan was born and lives in Newport Beach, California. He is a competitive tennis player and has been captain of his high school varsity tennis team since his sophomore year. He was the The Tennis Recruiting Hot 100 List in April and May 2025. In his free time, he volunteers to teach tennis to kids on the Autism Spectrum. He also likes to surf, snowboard and play the electric guitar.