2021-2022 Academic Year Interns
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Returning Interns
Academic Year Interns
Shrikar Amirisetty
Engineering Physics and Computer Science
Project: Voice Vitals: Novel Infrastructure for Disease Screening and Treatment Tracking
Mentor(s): Mary Pietrowicz
Muhil Arumugam
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
Angel Jared Canty
(Spring 2022) – Computer Science and Information Science
Project: Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
Mentor(s): Silvina Montrul, David Dubin
Vasu Chalasani
Computer Science
Project: AI at Scale
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta
Arav Chedda
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Virtual Reality Dance Adventure Game
Mentor(s): John Toenjes
Arav Chinthakindi
Computer Science
Project: More Than a Gut Feeling: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying the Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health
Mentor(s): Hannah Holscher, Leila Shinn
Haihley Connors
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Project: Resolving Racial Health Disparities by Using Advanced Statistics and Machine Learning on Complex Multidimensional Datasets project
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
Benjamin Evanoff
(Spring 2022 Session) – Linguistics
Project: Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
Mentor(s): Silvina Montrul, David Dubin
Anushka Gami
Information Science
Project: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Scientific Documentaries Using Natural Language Processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Foziea Garada
Computer Science
Project: Nobel Project
Mentor(s): Ruby Mendenhall
Lyuxing He
Electrical Engineering
Project: Teaching Experiences Around Cutting-Edge Visualization of Materials Science Data
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
Varenya Jain
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Development of NEAT Advanced Features
Mentor(s): Joshua Allen, Christina Fliege
Revan Ji
Computer Engineering
Project: NCSA AI and Compute for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Advancement
Mentor(s): Pengfei Song, Peter Groves
Arpandeep Khatua
(Fall 2021) Computer Engineering and Mathematics
Project: Detection and Extraction of Non-text Objects on Pages from the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor(s): J. Stephen Downie, Cameron Worthy
Tomoyoshi Kimura
Chemical Engineering
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Pen
Tejus Kurdukar
Computer Engineering
Project: Music on High-Performance Computers
Mentor(s): Sever Tipei
Hajra Lat
Art + Design
Project: Virtual Reality Dance Adventure Game
Mentor(s): John Toenjes
Gaurav Mantri
Computer Science
Project: More Than a Gut Feeling: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying the Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health
Mentor(s): Hannah Holscher, Leila Shinn
Daniel Moon
Computer Science
Project: Improving Champaign County 211 Service Provision
Mentor(s): Anita Say Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez
Dev Hiteshkumar Patel
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: More Than a Gut Feeling: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying the Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health
Mentor(s): Hannah Holscher
Rishi Truptesh Patel
Mechanical Engineering
Project: AI at Scale
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta
Aidan Sochowski
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Interactive Visualization Within the yt Platform
Mentor(s): Matthew Turk, Chris Havlin
Youngbo Sohn
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Rhea Thomas
Finance and Political Science
Project: Big Data in Finance
Mentor(s): Mao Ye
Ayush Vikram
Computer Engineering
Project: Bioinformatics Workflow Development for HPC and the Cloud
Mentor(s): Joshua Allen, Christina Fliege
Xinyang (William) Xu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Machine Learning to Detect Fertilizer Adulteration in Developing Countries
Mentor(s): Hope Michelson
Returning Interns
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Pranshu Chaturvedi
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Innovative Systems Lab Project
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Melissa Chen
Computer Science
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
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William Chadwick Eustis
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Deep Learning Model Optimization
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Churan He
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms on FPGAs
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Quentin Herzig
Crop Sciences
Project: Visual Analytics Group 3D Biological Network Visualization
Mentor(s): Charles Blatti, Kalina Borkiewicz
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Bing-Yuan Hsieh
Computer Science and Statistics
Project: AI System for Identification of Wildlife Species in Conservation Videos
Mentor(s): Aiman Soliman, Brian Allan
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Yihong Jian
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Minhao Jiang
(Fall 2021) Computer Science
Project: Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Mentor(s): Xiaoxia Liao
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Matthew Jin
Computer Engineering
Project: Natural Language Processing Methods to Parse Birth and Death Records
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
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Andrew Sunwoo Lee
Chemistry
Project: Multiscale Modeling of the Cell Membrane-Associated Phenomena
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
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Yufeng Liu
Physics
Project: Meeting the LSST Data Challenge: Galaxy Detection and Segmentation with Deep Learning
Mentor(s): Xin Liu
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Haolin Luo
Biochemistry
Project: Modeling of the Complex Environment of the Cell
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Rauf Makharov
Computer Science
Project: Innovative Systems Lab Project
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Shruthik Musukula
Computer Science
Project: Speech-to-Text Auto Captioning
Mentor(s): Michael Miller
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Alistair Nunn
Information Science
Project: Natural language processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Araaish Paul
(Fall 2021) Computer Science
Project: Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Mentor(s): Xiaoxia Liao
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Devang Rai
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Visualizing Geographic Entities in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor(s): J. Stephen Downie, Glen Cameron Worthey
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Nikil Ravi
Mathematics and Computer Science
Project: Convergence of Physics-Inspired AI and Extreme Scale Computing for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Joseph Rejive
Computer Science and Statistics
Project: Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms on FPGAs
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Angelo Marco Santos
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Application of an Agent-based Model Simulation Platform to Evaluate COVID-19 Control Measures in Northern Illinois Counties
Mentor(s): Weihao Ge
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Chen (Carol) Song
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
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Yilin (Toby) Tao
Information Science
Project: The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
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Parth Tyagi
Computer Science
Project: On-the Fly Data Deneration for Neural Network Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Mentor(s): Roland Haas
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award
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Chenhui Zhang
Computer Science
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
