2018 Summer Interns

SPIN intern Mason Bushell

Mason Bushell - Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Behavior modification apps/acoustics
  • Mentor: Lisa Gatzke
SPIN intern Haimo Chen

Haimo Chen - Computer Engineering

SPIN intern Arnav Das

Arnav Das - Electrical Engineering

  • Project scope: Gravitational wave source modeling and data analysis for Advanced LIGO
  • Mentor: Eliu Huerta - Gravity Group
SPIN intern Harrison Davis

Harrison Davis - Physics and Astronomy

  • Project scope: Developing teaching materials for black holes and neutron stars
  • Mentor: Gabrielle Allen
SPIN intern Thuong Ha

Thuong Ha - Actuarial Science

SPIN intern Anand Haran

Anand Haran - Molecular and Cellular Biology

SPIN intern Jarrett Leuck

Jarrett Leuck - Physics

  • Project scope: Tracking molecular clouds in a galaxy evolution simulation
  • Mentor: Nathan Goldbaum
SPIN intern Jingxiang Lin

Jingxiang Lin - The Grainger College of Engineering

  • Project scope: Semi-supervised deep learning for real-world emotion detection
  • Mentor: Philip Nigel Bosch
SPIN intern Xun Lin

Xun Lin - Mathematics and Computer Science

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

Niharika Manda - Computer Science and Linguistics

  • Project scope: General projects
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Lab
SPIN intern Shelana Martin

Shelana Martin - Learning Education Studies (Digital Environments and Learning Teaching Agencies)

  • Project scope: Using educational technology for teaching high performance computing
  • Mentor: Sandra Kappes
SPIN intern Connor Pigg

Connor Pigg - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering

  • Project scope: Scientific workflow systems
  • Mentor: Daniel Katz
SPIN intern Sathwik Pochampally

Sathwik Pochampally - Computer Science

  • Project scope: TERRA REF: A computer vision and machine learning pipeline to interpret plant traits and predict yields
  • Mentor: David Lebauer
SPIN intern Chen Qian

Chen Qian - Computer Science and Art & Design

SPIN intern Brandon Qiao

Brandon Qiao - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Volume rendering for particle simulations
  • Mentor: Nathan Goldbaum
SPIN intern Rishabh Rajagopalan

Rishabh Rajagopalan

  • Project scope: Music composition and sound design on high-performance computers
  • Mentor: Sever Tipei
SPIN intern Anna Shabayev

Anna Shabayev - Computer Science

  • Project scope: General projects
  • Mentor: Donna Cox - Advanced Visualization Lab
SPIN intern Satwik Singh

Satwik Singh - Statistics and Computer Science

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

Dachun Sun

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

Tianyu Sun

  • Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
  • Mentor: Kaiyu Guan
SPIN intern Bing Jyun Tsao

Bing Jyun Tsao - Physics

  • Project scope: Simulating neutron stars with computational fluid dynamics
  • Mentor: Charalampos Markakis
SPIN intern Brian Xu

Brian Xu - Electrical Engineering

SPIN intern Jinlin Xu

Jinlin Xu

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

Hongru Yang - Statistics and Computer Science and Mathematics

  • Project scope: A stand-alone tool for p-refinements of 3D finite element meshes with curved boundary
  • Mentor: JaeHyuk Kwack
SPIN intern Zeran Zhu

Zeran Zhu - Computer Engineering

  • Project scope: Generic output routines for the Einstein Toolkit
  • Mentor: Roland Haas - Gravity Group
SPIN intern Ryan Zimmerman

Ryan Zimmerman

Returning Interns

SPIN intern Antonio Massoni Abinader

Antonio Massoni Abinader - Electrical and Computer Engineering

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 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 Ke Xu

Ke Xu - Computer Engineering

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

Past SPIN interns

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