2022-2023 Academic Year Interns

Academic Interns by Year:

Hani Al Majed

Department: Electrical Engineering
Project: Physics Informed Neural Operators
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta

Fatimah Alhawaj

Project: Developing Structure-Aware Neural Networks to Accelerate Materials Discovery
Mentor(s): Elif Ertekin

Purvansh Bal

Department: Computer Science
Project: Voice Vitals: Novel Infrastructure for Disease Screening and Treatment Tracking
Mentor(s): Mary Pietrowicz

Ram Goenka

Department: Mathematics
Project: Web interface for Atmospheric Chemistry Simulations
Mentor(s): Nicole Riemer

Xiaojun Jia

Department: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics
Project: The “System of Systems” Solutions for Commercial Field-Level Quantification of Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrous Oxide Emission for Scalable Applications (SYMFONI)
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan

Ved Kommalapati

Department: Computer Science
Project: fancX (A Portable Function-as-a-Service) System
Mentor(s): Daniel S. Katz

Mit Kotak

Department: Physics
Project: High Performance Computing for Magnetized Neutron Stars
Mentor(s): Antonios Tsokaros

Zhirou Liu

Project: Music and High-Performance Computers
Mentor(s): Sever Tipei

Yibai Wang

Project: The “System of Systems” Solutions for Commercial Field-Level Quantification of Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrous Oxide Emission for Scalable Applications (SYMFONI)
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan

Zella Zhao

Department: Information Sciences
Project: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Scientific Documentaries Using Natural Language Processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman

Kiara Balleza

Department: Geographic Information Systems
Project: The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern

Joshmita Chintala

Department: Computer Engineering
Project: Web interface for Atmospheric Chemistry Simulations
Mentor(s): Nicole Riemer
Returning Intern

Haihley Connors

Department: Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Project: Underpinnings of Racial Health Disparities
Mentor(s): Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
Returning Intern

Morgan Cosillo

Department: Information Sciences
Project: OCR Post Correction with Machine Learning in the Reading Time Machine
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern

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William Chadwick Eustis

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Training large-scale Models on the Wafer-Scale Engine
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
Returning Intern

Foziea Garada

Department: Computer Science
Project: Nobel Project
Mentor(s): Ruby Mendenhall
Returning Intern

Xinyi Huang

Department: Business
Project: COVID19-Mesa: Using CERN ROOT and Tableau for High-Performance Scientific Visualization
Mentor(s): Sanitago Nunez-Corrales
Returning Intern

Divya Jain 

Department: Data Science and Information Sciences
Project: Gene Expression Changes in Response to Influenza Challenge
Mentor(s): Charles Blatti
Returning Intern

Hrishikesh Kalyanaraman

Project: Continuous Integration Testing for the Einstein Toolkit
Mentor(s): Roland Haas
Returning Intern

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Andrew Sunwoo Lee

Department: Chemistry
Project: Multiscale Modeling of the Cell Membrane-Associated Phenomena
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
Returning Intern

Joe Luo

Project: Sonification of Electron Density Data
Mentor(s): Andre Schleife
Returning Intern

Jingtang Ma

Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring Influenza Challenge
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan
Returning Intern

Yiwen Miao

Department: Business
Project: Tallying the World’s Planetarium Attendance on AVL Documentaries
Mentor(s): Kalina Borkiewicz
Returning Intern

Linh Pham 

Project: The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data with Citizen Science Figure Classification
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern

Joseph Rejive

Department: Computer Science and Statistics
Project: Implementation of AI Models on Reconfigurable Hardware
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
Returning Intern

Youngbo Sohn 

Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan
Returning Intern

Boda Song


Department: Computer Science
Project: COVID19-Mesa: Using CERN ROOT and Tableau for High-Performance Scientific Visualization
Mentor(s): Santiago Nunez-Corrales
Returning Intern

Weixuan (Wilson) Sun

Department: Computer Science
Project: Speech-To-Text Auto Captioning
Mentor(s): Michael Miller
Returning Intern

Arhish Thiruvengadam 

Department: Computer Science and Astronomy
Project: AI and High Performance Computing for Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Mentor(s): Eliu Huerta
Returning Intern

Runsheng (Shane) Wu

Department: Computer Science and Linguistics
Project: Web Interface for Atmospheric Chemistry Simulations
Mentor(s): Nicole Riemer
Returning Intern

Sri Nithya Yeragorla

Department: Information Sciences
Project: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Scientific Documentaries Using Natural Language Processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern

Chenhui Zhang

Department: Computer Science
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan
Returning Intern

David Zhu

Department: Computer Science
Project: Translating Optical Character Recognition Text to words with the Reading Time Machine
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Returning Intern

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