2021-2022 Academic Year Interns

SPIN intern Shrikar Amirisetty

Shrikar Amirisetty - Engineering Physics and Computer Science

Project scope: Voice Vitals: Novel Infrastructure for Disease Screening and Treatment Tracking
Mentors: Mary Pietrowicz

SPIN intern Muhil Arumugam

Muhil Arumugam - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Mentors: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Angel Jared Canty

Angel Jared Canty (Spring 2022 Session) - Computer Science and Information Science

Project scope: Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
Mentors: Silvina Montrul, David Dubin

SPIN intern Shrikar Amirisetty

Vasu Chalasani - Computer Science

Project scope: AI at Scale
Mentors: Eliu Huerta

SPIN intern Arav Chedda

Arav Chedda - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Virtual Reality Dance Adventure Game
Mentors: John Toenjes

SPIN intern Vineet Chinthakindi

Arav Chinthakindi - Computer Science

Project scope: More Than a Gut Feeling: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying the Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health
Mentors: Hannah Holscher, Leila Shinn

SPIN intern Haihley Connors

Haihley Connors - Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

Project scope: Resolving Racial Health Disparities by Using Advanced Statistics and Machine Learning on Complex Multidimensional Datasets project
Mentors: Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

SPIN intern Benjamin Evanoff

Benjamin Evanoff (Spring 2022 Session) - Linguistics

Project scope: Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
Mentors: Silvina Montrul, David Dubin

SPIN intern Anushka Gami

Anushka Gami - Information Science

Project scope: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Scientific Documentaries Using Natural Language Processing
Mentors: Jill Naiman

SPIN intern Foziea Garada

Foziea Garada - Computer Science

Project scope: Nobel Project
Mentors: Ruby Mendenhall

SPIN intern Lyuxing He

Lyuxing He - Electrical Engineering

Project scope: Teaching Experiences Around Cutting-Edge Visualization of Materials Science Data
Mentors: Andre Schleife

SPIN intern Varenya Jain

Varenya Jain - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Development of NEAT Advanced Features
Mentors: Joshua Allen, Christina Fliege

SPIN intern Revan Ji

Revan Ji - Computer Engineering

Project scope: NCSA AI and Compute for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Advancement
Mentor: Pengfei Song, Peter Groves

SPIN intern Arpandeep Khatua

Arpandeep Khatua (Fall 2021 Session) - Computer Engineering and Mathematics

Project scope: Detection and Extraction of Non-text Objects on Pages from the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentors: J. Stephen Downie, Cameron Worthy

SPIN intern Tomoyoshi Kimura

Tomoyoshi Kimura - Chemical Engineering

Project scope: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Tejus Kurdukar

Tejus Kurdukar - Computer Engineering

Project scope: Music on High-Performance Computers
Mentors: Sever Tipei

SPIN intern Hajra Lat

Hajra Lat - Art + Design

Project scope: Virtual Reality Dance Adventure Game
Mentors: John Toenjes

SPIN intern Gaurav Mantri

Gaurav Mantri - Computer Science

Project scope: More Than a Gut Feeling: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying the Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health
Mentors: Hannah Holscher, Leila Shinn

SPIN intern Daniel Moon

Daniel Moon - Computer Science

Project scope: Improving Champaign County 211 Service Provision
Mentors: Anita Say Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez

SPIN intern Dev Hiteshkumar Patel

Dev Hiteshkumar Patel - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: More Than a Gut Feeling: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying the Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health
Mentor: Hannah Holscher

SPIN intern Rishi Truptesh Patel

Rishi Truptesh Patel - Mechanical Engineering

Project scope: AI at Scale
Mentor: Eliu Huerta

SPIN intern Aidan Sochowski

Aidan Sochowski - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Interactive Visualization Within the yt Platform
Mentor: Matthew Turk, Chris Havlin

SPIN intern Youngbo Sohn

Youngbo Sohn

Project scope: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Rhea Thomas

Rhea Thomas - Finance and Political Science

Project scope: Big Data in Finance
Mentors: Mao Ye

SPIN intern Ayush Vikram

Ayush Vikram - Computer Engineering

Project scope: Bioinformatics Workflow Development for HPC and the Cloud
Mentors: Joshua Allen, Christina Fliege

SPIN intern Xinyang (William) Xu

Xinyang (William) Xu - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Machine Learning to Detect Fertilizer Adulteration in Developing Countries
Mentor: Hope Michelson

Returning Interns

SPIN intern Pranshu Chaturvedi

Pranshu Chaturvedi - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Innovative Systems Lab Project
Mentors: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Melissa Chen

Melissa Chen - Computer Science

Project scope: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern William Chadwick Eustis

William Chadwick Eustis - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Deep Learning Model Optimization
Mentors: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Churan He

Churan He - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Quentin Herzig

Quentin Herzig - Crop Sciences

Project scope: Visual Analytics Group 3D Biological Network Visualization
Mentors: Charles Blatti, Kalina Borkiewicz
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Bing-Yuan Hsieh

Bing-Yuan Hsieh - Computer Science and Statistics

Project scope: AI System for Identification of Wildlife Species in Conservation Videos
Mentors: Aiman Soliman, Brian Allan

SPIN intern Yihong Jian

Yihong Jian

Project scope: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Minhao Jiang

Minhao Jiang (Fall 2021 Session)- Computer Science

Project scope: Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Mentors: Xiaoxia Liao

SPIN intern Matthew Jin

Matthew Jin - Computer Engineering

Project scope: Natural Language Processing Methods to Parse Birth and Death Records
Mentors: Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

SPIN intern Andrew Sunwoo Lee

Andrew Sunwoo Lee - Chemistry

Project scope: Multiscale Modeling of the Cell Membrane-Associated Phenomena
Mentors: Taras Pogorelov

SPIN intern Yufeng Liu

Yufeng Liu- Physics

Project scope: Meeting the LSST Data Challenge: Galaxy Detection and Segmentation with Deep Learning
Mentors: Xin Liu
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Haolin Luo

Haolin Luo - Biochemistry

Project scope: Modeling of the Complex Environment of the Cell
Mentors: Taras Pogorelov
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Rauf Makharov

Rauf Makharov - Computer Science

Project scope: Innovative Systems Lab Project
Mentors: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Shruthik Musukula

Shruthik Musukula - Computer Science

Project scope: Speech-to-Text Auto Captioning
Mentors: Michael Miller

SPIN intern Alistair Nunn

Alistair Nunn - Information Science

Project scope: Natural language processing
Mentors: Jill Naiman
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Araaish Paul

Araaish Paul (Fall 2021 Session) - Computer Science

Project scope: Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Mentors: Xiaoxia Liao

SPIN intern Devang Rai

Devang Rai - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Visualizing Geographic Entities in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor: J. Stephen Downie, Glen Cameron Worthey

SPIN intern Nikil Ravi

Nikil Ravi - Mathematics and Computer Science

Project scope: Convergence of Physics-Inspired AI and Extreme Scale Computing for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Mentor: Eliu Huerta
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Joseph Rejive

Joseph Rejive - Computer Science and Statistics

Project scope: Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Angelo Marco Santos

Angelo Marco Santos - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Application of an Agent-based Model Simulation Platform to Evaluate COVID-19 Control Measures in Northern Illinois Counties
Mentor: Weihao Ge

SPIN intern Chen (Carol) Song

Chen (Carol) Song - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Yilin (Toby) Tao

Yilin (Toby) Tao - Information Science

Project scope: The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data
Mentor: Jill Naiman

SPIN intern Parth Tyagi

Parth Tyagi - Computer Science

Project scope: On-the Fly Data Deneration for Neural Network Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Mentor: Roland Haas
Recognition: Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award

SPIN intern Chenhui Zhang

Chenhui Zhang - Computer Science

Project scope: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

Past SPIN interns

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