Academic Interns by Year:
New Interns
Benedetto Lozzano
Project: Scientific Chart Visual Question & Answering with Large MultiModal Models
Department: School of Information Sciences
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Rishan Shah
Project: Eyes on the Storm: AI-Driven Mapping of Extreme Weather Impacts on Illinois Communities, Agriculture, and Insurance Risk
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mentor(s): Angela C. Lyons
Leon Chien
Project: Modeling of the complex environment of the cell
Department: BS, Mathematics & Computer Science | BS, Chemistry
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
Adhvik Rayaprolu
Project: Developing an mHealth app for Cancer Survivors to Encourage Physical Activity and Cognition
Department: Mathematics and Computer Science
Mentor(s): Rachel Adler
Sydney Hunter
Project: Exploring Quantum Sound and Music
Department: Physics
Mentor(s): Michael Miller
Returning Interns
Sophia Moylan
Project: LLM-Based Knowledge Agent
Department: Mathematics & Computer Science
Mentor(s): Kevin Chang
Returning Intern
Emma Chen
Project: Developing a Typology of U.S. Neighborhoods that Accounts for Racial-Ethnic Disparities
Department: Statistics
Mentor(s): Yue Lin
Returning Intern
Abhiram Manuguri
Project: Blast: A Web Application for Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Astrophysical Transients
Department: Mathematics
Mentor(s): Andrew Manning
Returning Intern
Diana Rosu
Project: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries using Natural Language Processing
Department: School of Information Sciences
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern
Chuck Wang
Project: Guinea Pig Simulator 2.0
Department: Statistics
Mentor(s): Joshua Allen
Returning Intern
Sanjeevani Mukherjee
Project: The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data
Department: School of Information Sciences
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern
Xiaoxi (Brooke) Chen
Project: Turn Code Into Compassion: Visualize Aging.
Department: Curriculum & Instruction & Computer Science
Mentor: Deana McDonagh
Ella Madalinski
Project: Nutrition Data Collection and Analysis Tool with Generative AI Integration
Department: Computer Science – Samford University
Mentor(s): Vlad Kindratenko
Returning from REU FoDoMMaT SU 2026
Xiuning (Belle) Kuang
Project: Scientific Chart Visual Question & Answering with Large MultiModal Models
Department: School of Information Sciences
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern
Chinmay Rawat
Project: Eyes on the Storm: AI-Driven Mapping of Extreme Weather Impacts on Illinois Communities, Agriculture, and Insurance Risk
Department: BS, Computer Science, Minor in Statistics
Mentor(s): Angela Lyons
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Victoria Zhang
Project: Resilience of Quantum Information Systems – HPC Integration
Department: Computer Science + Physics
Mentor(s): Phuong Cao
Returning from CS DREU SU 2026
Xinghan Chen
Project: AI for Science: Advancing AI for Crop, Soil, and Environmental Prediction
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor(s): Bin Peng
Returning Intern
Leyi Qian
Project: Music on High-Performance Computers
Department: Mathematics
Mentor(s): Sever Tipei
Returning Intern
Vanessa Ngerjee
Project: Turn Code Into Compassion: Visualize Aging
Department: Bioengineering
Mentor(s): Deana McDonagh
Returning Intern
Zonghang Wu
Project: Turn Code Into Compassion: Visualize Aging
Department: Anthropology
Mentor(s): Deana McDonagh
Returning Intern
Yijing Zuo
Project: Empirical Characterization of QAOA Energy Landscapes for Machine Learning-Guided Parameter Initialization
Department: Mathematics & Computer Science
Mentor(s): Soham Pal
Returning Intern
Jia Gill
Project: Climate Change, Migration, and Socioeconomic Impacts
of the Deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil
Department: Statistics and Computer Science
Mentor(s): Angela C. Lyons
Returning Intern
Visiting Student Scholars
Rakan Alluqmani
Project: AI-Powered Modeling of Eye Movements in Skilled and Unskilled Readers
Department: Computer Engineering – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mentor(s): Anastasia Stoops
Visiting Scholar (former Summer 2026 REU FoDoMmaT Fellow)
Noah Dengler
Project: Climate Change, Migration, and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil
Department: Computer Science – Tufts University
Mentor(s): Angela Lyons
Visiting Scholar (former Summer 2026 REU FoDoMmaT Fellow)
Pranav Verma
Project: Climate Change, Migration, and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil
Department: Computer Science – University of Florida
Mentor(s): Angela Lyons
Visiting Scholar (former Summer 2026 REU FoDoMmaT Fellow)
Brandon Bonamarte
Project: AI-Powered Modeling of Eye Movements in Skilled and Unskilled Readers
Department: Mathematics, Music Performance – Florida State University
Mentor(s): Anastasia Stoops
Visiting Scholar (former Summer 2026 REU FoDoMmaT Fellow)