2021 Summer Interns

SPIN intern Joshmita Chintala

Joshmita Chintala - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Improving Champaign County 211 service provision
Mentors: Anita Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez

SPIN intern William Eustis

William Eustis - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Deep learning model optimization
Mentor: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Quentin Herzig

Quentin Herzig - Crop Sciences

Project scope: Visual Analytics Group 3D biological network visualization
Mentors: Charles Blatti, Kalina Borkiewicz, Colleen Bushell

SPIN intern Zona Hrnjak

Zona Hrnjak - Computer Science and Geography/GIS

Project scope: Visualizing geographic entities in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor: J Stephen Downie

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 Xiaojun (Alison) Jia

Xiaojun (Alison) Jia - Mathematics

Project scope: Visualizing and analyzing declarative solutions to computational problems
Mentor: Bertram Ludaescher

SPIN intern Mingxin Li

Mingxin Li - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Improving speed of characterizing numerical relativity waveforms
Mentor: Roland Haas

SPIN intern Haolin Luo

Haolin Luo - Biology

Project scope: Modeling of the complex environment of the cell
Mentor: Taras Pogorelov

SPIN intern Shruthik Musukula

Shruthik Musukula - Computer Science

Project scope: Speech-to-text auto captioning
Mentor: Michael Miller

SPIN intern Alistair Nunn

Alistair Nunn - Information Science

Project scope: Natural language processing
Mentors: Jill Naiman, AJ Christensen, Jana Diesner

SPIN intern Andrew Michael Orals

Andrew Michael Orals - Computer Science and Music

Project scope: Music on high-performance computers
Mentor: Sever Tipei

SPIN intern Devang Rai

Devang Rai - Statistics and Computer Science

Project scope: Visualizing geographic entities in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mentor: J Stephen Downie

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

SPIN intern Angelo Marco Santos

Angelo Marco Santos - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Application of an agent-based model simulation platform to evaluate COVID-19 control measures in northern Illinois counties
Mentors: Weihao Ge, Liudmila Mainzer

SPIN intern Ved Gautam Shah

Ved Gautam Shah - Computer Science and Astronomy

Project scope: Improving automatic anonymization of text with machine learning
Mentor: Nigel Bosch

SPIN intern Jason Sharma

Jason Sharma - Economics

Project scope: Virtual reality and holographic data visualization in materials science
Mentor: Andre Schleife

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 Shriya Srikanth

Shriya Srikanth - iSchool

Project scope: Natural language processing
Mentors: Jill Naiman, AJ Christensen, Jana Diesner

SPIN intern Yilin Tao

Yilin Tao

Project scope: The reading time machine: Transforming astrophysical literature into actionable data — figure classification
Mentor: Jill P. Naiman

SPIN intern Parth Tyagi

Parth Tyagi - Computer Science

Project scope: On-the fly data generation for neural network based gravitational wave detection
Mentor: Roland Haas

SPIN intern Akshunna Vaishnav

Akshunna Vaishnav - Computer Engineering

Project scope: Visualizing and analyzing declarative solutions to computational problems: Analyzing declarative solutions
Mentor: Bertram Ludaescher

Returning Interns

SPIN intern Dhruv Dahiya

Dhruv Dahiya - Computer Science

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Churan He

Churan He

Project scope: Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs
Mentors: Ashish Misra, Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Yihong Jian

Yihong Jian

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng
Watch the lightning talk
Project poster (PDF)

SPIN intern Minhao Jiang

Minhao Jiang - Computer Science

Project scope: Deep learning in medical image analysis
Mentor: Xiaoxia Liao

SPIN intern Andrew Sunwoo Lee

Andrew Sunwoo Lee - Chemistry

Project scope: Multiscale modeling of the cell membrane-associated phenomena
Mentor: Taras Pogorelov
Watch the lightning talk
Project poster (PDF)

SPIN intern Yufeng Liu

Yufeng Liu - Physics

Project scope: Meeting the LSST Data Challenge: Galaxy detection and segmentation with deep learning
Mentor: Xin Liu

SPIN intern Arjun Nair

Arjun Nair - Computer Science and Lingustics

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

SPIN intern Araaish Paul

Araaish Paul - Computer Science

Project scope: Deep learning in medical image analysis
Mentor: Xiaoxia Liao

SPIN intern Joseph Rejive

Joseph Rejive - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project scope: Implementation of algorithms on reconfigurable hardware
Mentor: Volodymyr Kindratenko

SPIN intern Chenhui Zhang

Chenhui Zhang - Computer Science

Project scope: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng

Past SPIN interns

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