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2020-2021 Academic Year Interns
Sruthi Bhattiprolu
Project scope:
Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors:
Ashish Misra and Volodymyr Kindratenko
Churan He
Project scope:
Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors:
Ashish Misra and Volodymyr Kindratenko
Mohammed Shafwat Jamil
Project scope:
Automatically testing the Einstein Toolkit using GitHub
Mentors:
Roland Haas
Yihong Jian
Project scope:
Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors:
Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Matthew Jin
Project scope:
Natural language processing methods to parse birth and death records
Mentors:
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Justina Zurauskiene
Maxwell Jong
Project scope:
Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors:
Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Aditya Mansharamani
- Computer Science
Project scope:
Microbial biomarkers of food intake
Mentors:
Hannah Holscher
Ritika Sinha
Project scope:
Computational program for racial health disparities
Mentors:
Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer
John W. Walls
Project scope:
Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors:
Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Justin Wang
Project scope:
Machine learning approach to computational fluid dynamics
Mentors:
Shirui Luo, Volodymyr Kindratenko
Ruobin Wang
Project scope:
Improving Champaign County 211 information for crisis response
Mentors:
Anita Say Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez
Yuzhou Wang
Project scope:
Deep learning for multi-messenger astrophysics
Mentors:
Eliu Huerta
Trevor Wong
Project scope:
Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors:
Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Returning Interns
Saumya Agrawal
- Computer Science and Statistics
Project scope:
Determination of biomarkers to be used in the diagnosis of cardiac microvascular disease in postmenopausal women
Mentors:
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Justina Zurauskiene
Recognition:
Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
Pranshu Chaturvedi
Project scope:
Innovative Systems Lab projects
Mentor:
Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Innovative Systems Lab
Zixuan Chen
- Computer Science
Project scope:
Virtual reality and ray tracing for computational materials science
Mentors:
Andre Schleife
Ke Deng
- Computer Sience and Statistics
Project scope:
Advanced Visualization Lab general projects
Mentors:
Donna Cox
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Advanced Visualization Lab
Recognition:
Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
Ishani Desai
- Statistics and Computer Science
Project scope:
Athletic data analysis
Mentors:
Loretta Auvil
Meridith Embry
- Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Project scope:
Automation of genomic analyses for the cloud, grid and analytics platforms
Mentors:
Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer
Kajetan Haas
- General Studies
Project scope:
Visualization innovation projects
Mentor:
Donna Cox
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Advanced Visualization Lab
Recognition:
Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award (2019, 2020)
Sarah Kishta
- Community Health
Project scope:
Gun violence sensor research project
Mentors:
Ruby Mendenhall
Recognition:
Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
Andrew Sunwoo Lee
- Chemistry
Project scope:
Multiscale modeling of the cell membrane-associated phenomena
Mentors:
Taras Pogorelov
Wei Luo
- Computer Science
Project scope:
Music on high-performance computers
Mentors:
Sever Tipei
Zhili Luo
- Electrical & Computer Engineering
Project scope:
Virtual reality and ray tracing for materials science data visualization
Mentor:
Andre Schleife
Rauf Makharov
Project scope:
Innovative Systems Lab projects
Mentors:
Aiman Soliman, Volodymyr Kindratenko
Sneh Pandya
- Physics
Project scope:
Weighing black holes with deep learning
Mentor:
Xin Liu
Recognition:
Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
; NCSA Letter of Recognition
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Anshul Shah
- Engineering Physics
Project scope:
Meeting the LSST data challenge: Galaxy detection and segmentation with deep learning
Mentors:
Xin Liu
Keshav Shivam
- Computer Science
Project scope:
Neuromorphic computing
Mentors:
Mattia Gazzola, Volodymyr Kindratenko
Andy Sima
- ESE (Sustainability) and Creative Writing
Project scope:
Resolving health disparities by using advanced statistics on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentors:
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer, Justina Zurauskiene
Andrew Wang
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project scope:
Improving thermoelectric properties via dopability predictions
Mentors:
Elif Ertekin
Tao Zang
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project scope:
Resolving health disparities by using advanced statistics on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentors:
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer, Justina Zurauskiene
Chenyu Zhao
- Computer Science and Linguistics
Project scope:
Speech-to-text auto captioning
Mentors:
Michael Miller
- NCSA Event Services
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