2014-2015 Interns

SPIN intern Emily Cheng

Emily Cheng - Molecular and Cellular Biology

  • Mentor: David LeBauer - NCSA Faculty Affiliate
  • Watch her lightning talk, April 2015
SPIN intern Lin Cheng

Lin Cheng - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Investigation and deployment of cloud computing technologies to create a flexible and scalable framework for executing complex data-intensive workflows
  • Mentor: Volodymyr Kindratenko - NCSA Innovative Systems Laboratory
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015
SPIN intern Dhruv Diddi

Dhruv Diddi - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Live auto captioning and creation of standard caption files for use in video editing
  • Mentor: Michael Miller - NCSA Event Services
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015
SPIN intern Ziqiao Ding

Ziqiao Ding - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Display system and job data from the Illinois Campus Cluster program in order to make the information more accessible and useful for system operators, managers, investors, and users
  • Mentor: Peter Enstrom - Illinois Campus Cluster

Yilin Dong

  • Mentor: David LeBauer - NCSA Faculty Affiliate
  • Watch her lightning talk, April 2015

Hao Gao - Computer Science and Mathematics

  • Project scope: Autonomous, vision-based systems for monitoring construction projects
  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute
SPIN intern Hilal Habashi

Hilal Habashi - Computer Science and Mathematics

  • Project scope: Investigate and develop mobile apps to enhance the experience of audiences of dance, theater, and music performances at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts
  • Mentor: John Toenjes - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/Department of Dance
SPIN intern Matthew Ho

Matthew Ho - Physics

  • Project scope: Developing gestural interfaces for high-level qualitative control of complex systems
  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015
SPIN intern Yusheng Hou

Yusheng Hou - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Develop an Android app to display 3D atomic lattices, allowing users to navigate the crystal structure of materials
  • Mentor: Andre Schleife - Blue Waters Professor/Department of Materials Science & Engineering
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015
SPIN intern Mingwei Hu

Mingwei Hu - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Integrate AVL's Virtual Director camera choreography and remote collaboration software with yt, a fast parallel volume software renderer
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - NCSA Advanced Visualization Laboratory/eDream Institute
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015
SPIN intern Nick Humbles

Nick Humbles - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Develop TorusVis, a front-end Javascript library for visualizing data on arbitrary graph topologies, which is primarily intended for high-performance computing system monitoring and analysis
  • Mentor: Omar Padron - Blue Waters
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015
SPIN intern Kevin Kang

Kevin Kang - Aerospace Engineering

  • Project scope: Display system and job data from the Illinois Campus Cluster program in order to make the information more accessible and useful for system operators, managers, investors, and users
  • Mentor: Peter Enstrom - Illinois Campus Cluster

Radhir Kothuri

  • Mentor: Andre Schleife - Blue Waters Professor/Department of Materials Science & Engineering
SPIN intern Richard Lee

Richard Lee - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Develop and optimize codes used to analyze image data collected through observational astronomy
  • Mentor: Robert J. Brunner - Department of Astronomy
  • Watch his lightning talk, April 2015
SPIN intern Melissa Lin

Melissa Lin - Economics

  • Project scope: Display system and job data from the Illinois Campus Cluster program in order to make the information more accessible and useful for system operators, managers, investors, and users
  • Mentor: Peter Enstrom - Illinois Campus Cluster
  • Watch her lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015

Jiexin Lyu

  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute

Raghav Nanda

  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute
SPIN intern Jonathan Pan-Doh

Jonathan Pan-Doh - Electrical Engineering

  • Project scope: Develop and optimize codes used to analyze image data collected through observational astronomy
  • Mentor: Robert J. Brunner - Department of Astronomy
  • Watch his lightning talk, April 2015

Samuel Rohde

  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute

Annie Rong - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Integrate AVL's Virtual Director camera choreography and remote collaboration software with yt, a fast parallel volume software renderer
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - NCSA Advanced Visualization Laboratory/eDream Institute
  • Watch her lightning talk, December 2014
SPIN intern Constantine Roros

Constantine Roros - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Developing gestural interfaces for high-level qualitative control of complex systems
  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute
  • Watch his lightning talk, April 2015
SPIN intern Chuck Rozhon

Chuck Rozhon - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Develop web widgets for interactive data manipulation of astrophysical data and of libraries for interfacing between running simulations and analysis code
  • Mentor: Matt Turk - NCSA Director's Office
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015

Mohammad Saad

  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute

Juspreet Sandhu

  • Mentor: Marshall Scott Poole - I-CHASS
SPIN intern Bentic Joseph Sebastian

Bentic Joseph Sebastian - Aerospace Engineering

  • Project scope: Developing gestural interfaces for high-level qualitative control of complex systems
  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute
  • "This project aims to enhance the concert experience, and in the future musical conductors may control real flying drones as part of the act."
  • Watch his lightning talk, April 2015
SPIN intern Utsav Shah

Utsav Shah - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Investigate and develop mobile apps to enhance the experience of audiences of dance, theater, and music performances at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts
  • Mentor: John Toenjes - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/Department of Dance
  • "We are working to augment theater, dance, musical, and other performances by making an app that viewers can download on their smartphones, providing additional content like pictures, video, sound."

Animesh Tripathi

  • Mentor: Trish Barker - Public Affairs

Jiarui Xu

  • Mentor: David LeBauer - NCSA Faculty Affiliate
  • Watch his lightning talk, April 2015
SPIN intern Wenbo Yu

Wenbo Yu - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Display system and job data from the Illinois Campus Cluster program in order to make the information more accessible and useful for system operators, managers, investors, and users
  • Mentor: Peter Enstrom - Illinois Campus Cluster
  • "My work will help Illinois Campus Cluster be more transparent to investors and make it easier for users to troubleshoot job failures."
  • Watch his lightning talks: December 2014, April 2015

Xusheng Zhang

  • Mentor: Andre Schleife - Blue Waters Professor/Department of Materials Science & Engineering

Hao Zheng

  • Mentor: Guy Garnett - NCSA Faculty Affiliate/eDream Institute

Continuing interns from 2013

SPIN intern Nate Russell

Nate Russell - Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

  • Project scope: Implement and refine machine learning approaches for the selection and ranking of features in high-dimensional datasets
  • Mentor: Colleen Bushell and Michael Welge - Visual Analytics Group
  • Watch his lightning talk, December 2014
SPIN intern Colter Wehmeier

Colter Wehmeier - Architecture

  • Project scope: Developing new digital workspaces and presentation techniques by integrating methods from various virtual environments
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Laboratory
  • "With near-future realities such as smart cities and augmented reality, I anticipate a greater impact of digital design on our everyday. Cultural heritage and urban history are one of many aspects that are going to evolve with technology."

Past SPIN interns

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