2020 Summer Interns
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Returning Interns
Summer Term Interns
Saumya Agrawal
Computer Science and Statistics
Project: Determination of biomarkers to be used in the diagnosis of cardiac microvascular disease in postmenopausal women
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Justina Zurauskiene
Brian Chen
Computer Science
Project: AI system for identification of wildlife species in conservation videos
Mentor(s): Aiman Soliman, Brian Allan
Recognitions: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
Mei Chen
Statistics
Project: Truth-seekers and liars: Sorting things out with Python and logic
Mentor(s): Bertram Ludaescher
Zixuan Chen
Computer Science
Project: Virtual reality and ray tracing for computational materials science
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
Ke Deng
Computer Science and Statistics
Project: Advanced Visualization Lab general projects
Mentor(s): Donna Cox – Advanced Visualization Lab
Ishani Desai
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Athletic data analysis
Mentor(s): Loretta Auvil
Meridith Embry
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Project: Automation of genomic analyses for the cloud, grid and analytics platforms
Mentor(s): Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer
Prannav Gupta
Computer Engineering
Project: Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko – Innovative Systems Lab
Recognitions: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
Xiaobo Huang
Mathematics
Project: Deep learning for gravitational wave astrophysics
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta – NCSA Gravity Group
Amber Hunter
Nuclear, Plasma, Radiological Engineering
Project: Virtual micro-reactor user facility
Mentor(s): Kathryn Huff
Xilin Jiang
Computer Engineering
Project: GPU computing for bionanotechnology
Mentor(s): Aleksei Aksimentiev
Lujia (Candice) Kang
Computer Science
Project: Rockwire
Mentor(s): Hannah Christensen
Sarah Kishta
Community Health
Project: Gun violence sensor research project
Mentor(s): Ruby Mendenhall
Andrew Sunwoo Lee
Chemistry
Project: Multiscale modeling of the cell membrane-associated phenomena
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
Xinyue Li
Computer Science and Mathematics
Project: Community resource pool
Mentor(s): Kaveh Karimi Asli, Diego Andres Calderon Rivera
Rui Liu
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Champaign County 211 reboot
Mentor(s): Anita Chan, Mitchell Oliver
Aneesh Lodhavia
Computer Science
Project: Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko – Innovative Systems Lab
Recognitions: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
Wei Luo
Computer Science
Project: Music on high-performance computers
Mentor(s): Sever Tipei
Yuqi Mao
Computer Engineering
Project: Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentor(s): Ashish Misra, Volodymyr Kindratenko
Robert Nagel
Computer Science
Project: Constructing a library of numerical relativity waveforms for use by LIGO
Mentor(s): Roland Haas – NCSA Gravity Group
Anshul Shah
Engineering Physics
Project: Meeting the LSST data challenge: Galaxy detection and segmentation with deep learning
Mentor(s): Xin Liu
Rui Shi
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Resolving health disparities by using advanced statistics on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentor(s): Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer
Keshav Shivam
Computer Science
Project: Neuromorphic computing
Mentor(s): Mattia Gazzola, Volodymyr Kindratenko
Andy Sima
ESE (Sustainability) and Creative Writing
Project: Resolving health disparities by using advanced statistics on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer, Justina Zurauskiene
Dhruv Sirsikar
Computer Science
Project: Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
Bing-Jyun Tsao
Engineering Physics
Project: Machine learning approach to computational fluid dynamics
Mentor(s): Shirui Luo, Volodymyr Kindratenko
Andrew Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Improving thermoelectric properties via dopability predictions
Mentor(s): Elif Ertekin
Zijun Xu
Urban and Regional Planning
Project: Resolving health disparities by using advanced statistics on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Justina Zurauskiene
Hantao Zang
Computer Science and Statistics
Project: Multiscale modeling of fracture in complex materials
Mentor(s): Ahmed Elbanna
Tao Zang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project: Resolving health disparities by using advanced statistics on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer, Justina Zurauskiene
Jianyuan Zhan
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Rockwire
Mentor(s): Hannah Christensen
Chenyu Zhao
Computer Science and Linguistics
Project: Speech-to-text auto captioning
Mentor(s): Michael Miller – NCSA Event Services
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Summer Chao
New Media and Informatics
Project: User interface experiments toward improving user experience
Mentor(s): Lisa Gatzke
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Kajetan Haas
General Studies
Project: Visualization innovation projects
Mentor(s): Donna Cox – Advanced Visualization Lab
Recognitions: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Dina Hashash
University Laboratory High School
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
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Vivian Hu
Computer Science, Statistics, Chemistry
Project: Data storage and analysis for optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
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Zhili Luo
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Project: Virtual reality and ray tracing for materials science data visualization
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
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Alexandr Moore
Project: World weather data daily
Mentor(s): Peter Christensen – Earth & Environment
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Sophia Torrellas
University Laboratory High School
Project: Resolving racial health disparities by using advanced statistics and machine learning on complex multidimensional datasets
Mentor(s): Liudmila Sergeevna Mainzer
