2017-2018 Academic Year Interns

SPIN intern Yuyuan Chen

Yuyuan Chen

  • Project scope: Music composition and sound design on supercomputers
  • Mentor: Sever Tipei
SPIN intern Min Kyu Cho

Min Kyu Cho - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Speech-to-text auto captioning
  • Mentor: Michael Miller - Event Services
SPIN intern Isaac Howenstine

Isaac Howenstine - Civil Engineering

  • Project scope: Inverse design of schooling dynamics
  • Mentor: Mattia Gazzola
SPIN intern Sijia Huo

Sijia Huo - Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics

  • Project scope: Solving complex data analytics problems with advanced statistics
  • Mentor: Liudmila Mainzer
SPIN intern Hannah Kim

Hannah Kim - Elementary Education

  • Project scope: Developing a support tool for optimising the presentation format of a biofeedback training program used in stress management
  • Mentor: Kiel Gilleade - Culture & Society
SPIN intern Cynthia Liu

Cynthia Liu - Bioengineering

  • Project scope: Design Nextflow-based workflow for RNA-Seq
  • Mentor: Liudmila Mainzer
SPIN intern Pei Liu

Pei Liu

  • Project scope: Data storage and analysis for optical properties of semiconductor nanocrysytals
  • Mentor: Andre Schleife
SPIN intern Simeng Liu

Simeng Liu - Economics

SPIN intern Alex Moore

Alex Moore

  • Project scope: World Weather Data Daily
  • Mentor: Peter Christensen - Earth & Environment
SPIN intern Xueting Nie

Xueting Nie - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Convert Java-based GWAS code for Spark
  • Mentor: Liudmila Mainzer
SPIN intern Vedant Puri

Vedant Puri - Engineering Mechanics

  • Project scope: Enhancing the multigrid elliptic solver of the Einstein Toolkit
  • Mentor: Roland Haas - Gravity Group
SPIN intern He Qu

He Qu - Computer Science

  • Project scope: FPGA implementation of bioinformatics algorithms
  • Mentor: Volodymyr Kindratenko - Innovative Systems Lab
SPIN intern Craig Santo

Craig Santo - Computer Science

  • Project scope: AVL general projects
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Lab
SPIN intern Sujay Shah

Sujay Shah - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Virtual reality and ray tracing for computational materials science
  • Mentor: Andre Schleife
SPIN intern Bowen Song

Bowen Song - Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

  • Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
  • Mentor: Kaiyu Guan
SPIN intern Nick Zhaoyuan Su

Nick Zhaoyuan Su - Architecture

  • Project scope: Developing a support tool for optimising the presentation format of a biofeedback training program used in stress management
  • Mentor: Kiel Gilleade - Culture & Society
SPIN intern Xin Wen

Xin Wen - Computer Science

  • Project scope: Machine learning for acceleration of Monte Carlo transport
  • Mentor: Kathryn Huff - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering
SPIN intern David Wong

David Wong - Engineering Physics

  • Project scope: Replicability and reproducibility in computational physics
  • Mentor: Matthew Krafczyk - Computing and Data Sciences
SPIN intern Xintong Wu

Xintong Wu - Computer Science and Art and Design

  • Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
  • Mentor: Kaiyu Guan
SPIN intern Ke Xu

Ke Xu - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Scalability of Deep Learning Frameworks
  • Mentor: Volodymyr Kindratenko - Innovative Systems Lab
SPIN intern Chuhan Yu

Chuhan Yu - Learning and Education

  • Project scope: Developing a support tool for optimising the presentation format of a biofeedback training program used in stress management
  • Mentor: Kiel Gilleade - Culture & Society

Returning Interns

SPIN intern Antonio Massoni Abinader

Antonio Massoni Abinader - Electrical and Computer Engineering

SPIN intern Siddharth Ahuja

Siddharth Ahuja - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Virtual reality and ray tracing for computational materials science
  • Mentor: Andre Schleife
SPIN intern Adhithya Bhaskar

Adhithya Bhaskar - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Replicability and reproducibility in computational physics
  • Mentor: Matthew Krafczyk - Computing and Data Sciences
SPIN intern Nathanael Michael Claussen

Nathanael Michael Claussen - Statistics

  • Project scope: Data-driven scientific visualization with virtual and augmented reality
  • Mentor: Matthew Turk
SPIN intern Derek Glennon

Derek Glennon

  • Project scope: Simulating neutron stars with computational fluid dynamics
  • Mentor: Charalampos Markakis - Physics and Astronomy
SPIN intern Daniel Jefferson Gross

Daniel Jefferson Gross - Liberal Arts & Sciences

  • Project scope: A stand-alone tool for p-refinements of 3D finite element meshes with boundary conditions
  • Mentor: JaeHyuk Kwack - Scientific and Engineering Applications Support Group
SPIN intern Sahil Gupta

Sahil Gupta - Computer Science

SPIN intern Nick Heyek

Nick Heyek - Mathematics and Computer Science

  • Project scope: TERRA REF: A computer vision and machine learning pipeline to interpret plant traits and predict yields
  • Mentor: David LeBauer - Earth & Environment
SPIN intern Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson - Physics and Computer Science

  • Project scope: Modeling and characterization of black hole mergers in dense stellar environments with the Einstein Toolkit
  • Mentor: Eliu Huerta - Physics and Astronomy
SPIN intern Tanitpong Lawphongpanich

Tanitpong Lawphongpanich - Computer Engineering

SPIN intern Anh Nguyen

Anh Nguyen - School of Art & Design

  • Project scope: General projects
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Lab
SPIN intern Roshan Rajan

Roshan Rajan - Computer Engineering

SPIN intern Rahul Sachdeva

Rahul Sachdeva - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Scientific workflow systems (general computer science or astronomy-application specific)
  • Mentor: Daniel Katz - Scientific Software and Application
SPIN intern Zekun Wei

Zekun Wei - Electrical Engineering

  • Project scope: Virtual reality and ray tracing for computational materials science
  • Mentor: Andre Schleife
SPIN intern Yan Zhan

Yan Zhan - Computer Engineering

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