Summer Interns by Year:

Harsheet Bansal
Project: Living Encyclopedia
Mentor(s): Kevin Chang

Rishabh Bezbarua
Project: Blast: A Web Application for Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Astrophysical Transients
Mentor: Andrew Manning

Rohan Guntaka
Project: Generative AI mHealth apps for older adults
Mentor(s): Rachel Adler

Juncheng (Henry) He
Project: Estimation of Crop Productivity From Multi-Sensor Fused Satellite Data
Mentor(s): Sheng Wang

Aditi Jindal
Project: Gene Discovery and Behavioral Modeling of Anxiety Induced Eating Disorders in Mouse Model
Mentor: Elhan Ersoz

Adarsh Krishnan
Project: Python package for Indian language transliteration
Mentor(s): Rini Mehta
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award

Vince Latada
Project: Thumbnail Service for Dark Energy Survey Public Data
Mentor(s): Felipe Menanteau

Aryan Sachdev
Project: Chat Illinois platform development
Mentor(s): Rohan Marwaha and Volodymyr Kindratenko

Ayush Sharma
Project: Chat Illinois platform development
Mentor(s): Rohan Marwaha and Volodymyr Kindratenko

Anujay Surana
Project: CILogon: Identity and Access Management for Science
Mentor(s): Jim Basney

Sirapop (Mig) Umnakkittikul
Project: Developing NLP-based resources for complementary medicine
Mentor(s): Halil Kilicoglu

Mingqian Wang
Project: Using Satellite Data for Large-Scale Crop Monitoring
Mentor(s): Kaiyu Guan, Shenlong Wang
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award

Jiaxun Zhang
Project: VLMs for Open Vocabulary SGG
Mentor(s): Ismini Lourentzou
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award

Aarav Agarwal
Project: DeepDISC: Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification for Astronomical Surveys with Deep Learning
Mentor(s): Xin Liu
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

Qingyun (Irene) Chen
Project: Exploring Quantum Sound and Music
Mentor(s): Michael Miller
Returning Intern

Yash Ejjagiri
Project: DeepDISC: Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification for Astronomical Surveys with Deep Learning
Mentor(s): Xin Liu
Returning Intern

Chahit Jain
Project: Multi-Sensor Data Integration for High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping
Mentor(s): Elhan Ersoz
Returning Intern

Kyle Keliuotis
Project: WormFindr: Automatic Segmentation of Neurons in C project
Mentor(s): Jill Naiman
Recognition: 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Returning Intern

Emma Maxwell
Project: Quantifying the Impact 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 Tiepe
Returning Intern

Dhanashri Purohit
Project: Multi-Sensor Data Integration for High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping
Mentor(s): Elhan Ersoz
Returning Intern

Sheng (Shawn) Zhang
Project: Native Combinatorial Geometry using Unstructured Meshes for Nuclear Energy Applications
Mentor(s): April Novak
Returning Intern