2026 Summer Interns

Summer Interns by Year:

Keegan Barbee

Project: Scientific Chart Visual Question & Answering with Large MultiModal Models

Department: Data Science & Information Science, Minor in Computer Science

Mentor(s): Jill Naiman

Emma Chen

Project: Developing a Typology of U.S. Neighborhoods that Accounts for Racial-Ethnic Disparities

Department: Statistics


Mentor: Yue Lin

Xiaoxi (Brooke) Chen

Project: Turn Code Into Compassion: Visualize Aging

Department: Curriculum & Instruction & Computer Science


Mentor(s): Deana McDonagh

Xinghan Chen

Project: AI for Science: Advancing AI for Crop, Soil, and Environmental Prediction

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering


Mentor(s): Bin Peng

Xinyan Feng

Project: Recommendation Systems for Donation Platforms

Department: Mathematics

Mentor(s): Abhijeet Ghoshal

Nihar Koganti 

Project: Building an Intelligent Assistant for High-Performance Computing Environments

Department: Computer Engineering

Mentor(s): Vlad Kindratenko

Xiuning (Belle) Kuang

Project: Scientific Chart Visual Question & Answering with Large MultiModal Models

Department: School of Information Sciences

Mentor(s): Jill Naiman

Ajay Nagi Reddy Kumdam

Project: Enabling LLM-as-a-Service on High-Performance Computing Systems

Department: Computer Engineering

Mentor(s): Vlad Kindratenko

Yifei Li

Project: Building an Intelligent Assistant for High-Performance Computing Environments

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mentor(s): Vlad Kindratenko

Abhiram Manuguri

Project: Blast: A Web Application for Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Astrophysical Transients

Department: Mathematics

Mentor(s): Andrew Manning

Sophia Moylan

Project: LLM-Based Knowledge Agent

Department: Mathematics & Computer Science

Mentor(s): Kevin Chang

Sanjeevani J. Mukherjee

Project: The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data 

Department: School of Information Sciences

Mentor(s): Jill Naiman

Vanessa Ng

Project: Turn Code Into Compassion: Visualize Aging

Department:  Bioengineering

Mentor(s): Deana McDonagh

Amul Prakash

Project: Exploring Quantum Sound and Music

Department: Computer Science & Physics

Mentor(s): Michael Miller

Leyi Qian

Project: Music on High-Performance Computers

Department:  Mathematics

Mentor(s): Sever Tipei

Diana Rosu

Project: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries using Natural Language Processing

Department: School of Information Sciences

Mentor(s): Jill Naiman

Chuck Wang

Project: Guinea Pig Simulator 2.0

Department: Statistics

Mentor(s): Joshua Allen

Eunyul Wang

Project: Drone-Based Remote Sensing and Autonomous Inspection for Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Hazards

Department: Mechanical Science and Engineering

Mentor(s): Mohamad Alipour

Zonghang Wu

Project: Turn Code Into Compassion: Visualize Aging

Department: Anthropology

Mentor(s): Deana McDonagh

Lily Zhao

Project: Generative AI mHealth apps for older adults

Department: Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

Mentor(s): Rachel Adler

 Yijing Zuo

Project: Agentic Transcriptome Atlas: Redefining Disease from Molecular Signals

Department: Mathematics & Computer Science

Mentor(s): Haohan Wang

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