2021 Summer Interns
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Returning Interns
Summer Term Interns
Joshmita Chintala
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Improving Champaign County 211 service provision
Mentor(s): Anita Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez
William Eustis
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Deep learning model optimization
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
Quentin Herzig
Crop Sciences
Project: Visual Analytics Group 3D biological network visualization
Mentor(s): Charles Blatti, Kalina Borkiewicz, Colleen Bushell
Zona Hrnjak
Computer Science and Geography/GIS
Project: Visualizing geographic entities in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor(s): J Stephen Downie
Bing-Yuan Hsieh
Computer Science and Statistics
Project: AI system for identification of wildlife species in conservation videos
Mentor(s): Aiman Soliman, Brian Allan
Xiaojun (Alison) Jia
Mathematics
Project: Visualizing and analyzing declarative solutions to computational problems
Mentor(s): Bertram Ludaescher
Mingxin Li
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Improving speed of characterizing numerical relativity waveforms
Mentor(s): Roland Haas
Haolin Luo
Biology
Project: Modeling of the complex environment of the cell
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
Shruthik Musukula
Computer Science
Project: Speech-to-text auto captioning
Mentor(s): Michael Miller
Alistair Nunn
Information Science
Project: Natural language processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman, AJ Christensen, Jana Diesner
Andrew Michael Orals
Computer Science and Music
Project: Music on high-performance computers
Mentor(s): Sever Tipei
Devang Rai
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Visualizing geographic entities in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor(s): J Stephen Downie
Nikil Ravi
Mathematics and Computer Science
Project: Convergence of physics-inspired AI and extreme scale computing for multi-messenger astrophysics
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta
Angelo Marco Santos
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Application of an agent-based model simulation platform to evaluate COVID-19 control measures in northern Illinois counties
Mentor(s): Weihao Ge, Liudmila Mainzer
Ved Gautam Shah
Computer Science and Astronomy
Project: Improving automatic anonymization of text with machine learning
Mentor(s): Nigel Bosch
Jason Sharma
Economics
Project: Virtual reality and holographic data visualization in materials science
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
Chen (Carol) Song
Statistics and Computer Science
Project: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Shriya Srikanth
iSchool
Project: Natural language processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman, AJ Christensen, Jana Diesner
Yilin Tao
Project: The reading time machine: Transforming astrophysical literature into actionable data — figure classification
Mentor(s): Jill P. Naiman
Parth Tyagi
Computer Science
Project: On-the fly data generation for neural network based gravitational wave detection
Mentor(s): Roland Haas
Akshunna Vaishnav
Computer Engineering
Project: Visualizing and analyzing declarative solutions to computational problems: Analyzing declarative solutions
Mentor(s): Bertram Ludaescher
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Dhruv Dahiya
Computer Science
Project: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
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Churan He
Project: Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentor(s): Ashish Misra, Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Yihong Jian
Project: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
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Minhao Jiang
Computer Science
Project: Deep learning in medical image analysis
Mentor(s): Xiaoxia Liao
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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
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Arjun Nair
Computer Science and Linguistics
Project: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
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Araaish Paul
Computer Science
Project: Deep learning in medical image analysis
Mentor(s): Xiaoxia Liao
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Joseph Rejive
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Implementation of algorithms on reconfigurable hardware
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
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Chenhui Zhang
Computer Science
Project: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
