Academic Interns by Year:
Vasunandan Dar
Project: Nutrition Data Collection and Analysis Tool with Generative AI Integration
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko
Amul Prakash
Project: Exploring Quantum Sound and Music
Mentor(s): Michael Miller
Chinmay Rawat
Project: Climate Change, Migration, and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil
Mentor(s): Angela Lyons, Aiman Soliman
Hriday Sanakal
Project: Urban-Rural Interfaces: Evaluating the Socioeconomical Impact of Decentralized Supply Chain for Direct-to-Consumer Fresh Produce Delivery with Delivery Drones
Mentor(s): Elhan Ersoz
Atharva Sindwani
Project: Generative AI mHealth Apps for Older Adults
Mentor(s): Rachel Adler
Harsheet Bansal
Project: LLM-Based Knowledge Agent
Mentor(s): Kevin Chang
Returning Intern
Rishabh Bezbarua
Project: Blast: A Web Application for Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Astrophysical Transients
Mentor: Andrew Manning
Returning Intern
Aashvi Busa
Project: WormFindr: Automatic Segmentation of Neurons in C project
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Jamie Calub
Project: Nutrition Data Collection and Analysis Tool with Generative AI Integration
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko, Sharon Donovan
Returning Intern
Arjun Chainani
Project: Building and Testing the LSST Supernova Recommendation System Pipeline
Mentor(s): Gautham Narayan, Amanda Wasserman
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Yash Ejjagiri
Project: DeepDISC: Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification for Astronomical Surveys with Deep Learning
Mentor(s): Xin Liu
Returning Intern
Tia Kashyap
Project: DeepDISC: Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification for Astronomical Surveys with Deep Learning
Mentor(s): Xin Liu, Shirui Luo
Returning Intern
Kyle Jonas Keliuotis
Project: WormFindr: Automatic Segmentation of Neurons in C project
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Adarsh Krishnan
Project: Python package for Indian Language Transliteration
Mentor(s): Rini Mehta
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Vince Latada
Project: Thumbnail Service for Dark Energy Survey Public Data
Mentor(s): T. Andrew Manning
Returning Intern
Emma Maxwell
Project: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Scientific Documentaries Using Natural Language Processing
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Jacob McGrath
Project: Music on High-Performance Computers
Mentor(s): Sever Tipei
Returning Intern
Zaeem Qureshi
Project: Modeling of the Complex Environment of the Cell
Mentor(s): Taras Pogorelov
Recognition: 2024 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellow
Returning Intern
Aryan Sachdev
Project: Chat Illinois Platform Development
Mentor(s): Volodymyr Kindratenko, Rohan Marwaha
Returning Intern
Sirapop (Mig) Umnakkittikul
Project: Developing NLP-Based Resources for Complementary Medicine
Mentor(s): Halil Kilicoglu
Returning Intern
Mingqian Wang
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Shenlong Wang
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern
Benjamin Wu
Project: Spatial Analysis of Tumor Heterogeneity using Machine Learning Techniques
Mentor(s): Aiman Soliman, Zeynep Mudak-Erdogan
Returning Intern
Jiaxun Zhang
Project: VLMs for Open Vocabulary SGG
Mentor(s): Ismini Lourentzou
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern