2020-2021 Academic Year Interns

SPIN intern Sruthi Bhattiprolu

Sruthi Bhattiprolu

Project scope: Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors: Ashish Misra and Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Churan He

Churan He

Project scope: Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors: Ashish Misra and Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Mohammed Shafwat Jamil

Mohammed Shafwat Jamil

Project scope: Automatically testing the Einstein Toolkit using GitHub
Mentors: Roland Haas

SPIN intern Yihong Jian

Yihong Jian

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Matthew Jin

Matthew Jin

Project scope: Natural language processing methods to parse birth and death records
Mentors: Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Justina Zurauskiene

SPIN intern Maxwell Jong

Maxwell Jong

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Aditya Mansharamani

Aditya Mansharamani - Computer Science

Project scope: Microbial biomarkers of food intake
Mentors: Hannah Holscher

SPIN intern Ritika Sinha

Ritika Sinha

Project scope: Computational program for racial health disparities
Mentors: Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer

SPIN intern John W. Walls

John W. Walls

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Justin Wang

Justin Wang

Project scope: Machine learning approach to computational fluid dynamics
Mentors: Shirui Luo, Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Ruobin Wang

Ruobin Wang

Project scope: Improving Champaign County 211 information for crisis response
Mentors: Anita Say Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez

SPIN intern Yuzhou Wang

Yuzhou Wang

Project scope: Deep learning for multi-messenger astrophysics
Mentors: Eliu Huerta

SPIN intern Trevor Wong

Trevor Wong

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

Returning Interns

SPIN intern Saumya Agrawal

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

SPIN intern Pranshu Chaturvedi

Pranshu Chaturvedi

Project scope: Innovative Systems Lab projects
Mentor: Volodymyr Kindratenko - Innovative Systems Lab

SPIN intern Zixuan Chen

Zixuan Chen - Computer Science

Project scope: Virtual reality and ray tracing for computational materials science
Mentors: Andre Schleife

SPIN intern Ke Deng

Ke Deng - Computer Sience and Statistics

Project scope: Advanced Visualization Lab general projects
Mentors: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Lab
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Ishani Desai

Ishani Desai - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Athletic data analysis
Mentors: Loretta Auvil

SPIN intern Meridith Embry

Meridith Embry - Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Project scope: Automation of genomic analyses for the cloud, grid and analytics platforms
Mentors: Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer

SPIN intern Kajetan Haas

Kajetan Haas - General Studies

Project scope: Visualization innovation projects
Mentor: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Lab
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award (2019, 2020)

SPIN intern Sarah Kishta

Sarah Kishta - Community Health

Project scope: Gun violence sensor research project
Mentors: Ruby Mendenhall
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Andrew Sunwoo Lee

Andrew Sunwoo Lee - Chemistry

Project scope: Multiscale modeling of the cell membrane-associated phenomena
Mentors: Taras Pogorelov

SPIN intern Wei Luo

Wei Luo - Computer Science

Project scope: Music on high-performance computers
Mentors: Sever Tipei

SPIN intern Zhili Luo

Zhili Luo - Electrical & Computer Engineering

Project scope: Virtual reality and ray tracing for materials science data visualization
Mentor: Andre Schleife

SPIN intern Rauf Makharov

Rauf Makharov

Project scope: Innovative Systems Lab projects
Mentors: Aiman Soliman, Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Sneh Pandya

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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SPIN intern Anshul Shah

Anshul Shah - Engineering Physics

Project scope: Meeting the LSST data challenge: Galaxy detection and segmentation with deep learning
Mentors: Xin Liu

SPIN intern Keshav Shivam

Keshav Shivam - Computer Science

Project scope: Neuromorphic computing
Mentors: Mattia Gazzola, Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Andy Sima

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

SPIN intern Andrew Wang

Andrew Wang - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Project scope: Improving thermoelectric properties via dopability predictions
Mentors: Elif Ertekin

SPIN intern Tao Zang

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

SPIN intern Chenyu Zhao

Chenyu Zhao - Computer Science and Linguistics

Project scope: Speech-to-text auto captioning
Mentors: Michael Miller - NCSA Event Services

Past SPIN interns

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