Haihley Connors

Home Department: Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Project: Breast Cancer Disparities
Mentor: Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
Note: Finished 2021 Summer REU INCLUSION with a distinction, NCSA Director‘s letter of recognition

Jiho Alexa Park

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project: Breastfeeding Application
Mentors: Design for America
Note: iho is a recipient of the 2020 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship award for her work on the Menstrual Inequity in the United States

Ella Dennis

Home Department: Psychology and English
Project: Breastfeeding Application
Mentors: Design for America
Note: Ella is also a winner of the 2021 Social Hack Fiddler essay

Jay Reiter

Home Department: Math and Computer Science
Project: Breastfeeding Application
Mentors: Design for America

Saaniya Kapur

Home Department: Computer Engineering
Project: Breastfeeding Application
Mentors: Design for America

Elena Escobar

Home Department: Technical Systems Management
Project: Map the System
Mentors: Design for America

Rohini Sharma

Home Department: Computer Science
Project: Racism Untaught
Mentors: Design for America

Quentin Herzig

Home Department: Crop Sciences: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology and Minor: Computer Science
Project: Visual Analytics Group 3D biological network visualization
Mentors: Dr. Donna Cox, Ms. Kalina Borkiewicz, Dr. Charles Blatti
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director ‘s letter of recognition

Zhili Luo

Home Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Project: Virtual reality and ray tracing for materials science data visualization
Mentor: Prof. Andre Schleife
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director ‘s letter of recognition

Parth Tyagi

Home Department: Computer Science
Project: On-the fly data generation for neural network based gravitational wave detection
Mentors: Dr. Eliu Huerta and Dr. Roland Haas
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director ‘s letter of recognition

Nikil Ravi

Home Department: Mathematics and Computer Science
Project: Convergence of physics-inspired AI and extreme scale computing for multi-messenger astrophysics
Mentors: Dr. Eliu Huerta
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director ‘s letter of recognition

Yihong Jian

Home Department: Computer Science
Project: Using satellite data for large-scale crop monitoring
Mentors: Dr. Kaiyu Guan
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director ‘s letter of recognition

Yufeng Liu

Home Department: Physics
Project: Meeting the LSST Data Challenge: Galaxy detection and segmentation with deep learning
Mentors: Prof. Xin Liu
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director ‘s letter of recognition

Miah (Alistair) Nunn

Home Department: Information Science
Project: Natural language processing
Mentors: Dr. Jill Naiman

Haolin Luo

Home Department: Biology
Project: Modeling of the complex environment of the cell
Mentors: Dr. Taras Pogorelov
Note: Haolin received Jackson Summer Fellowship from the Department of Biochemistry, UIUC.
Note: Finished 2021 Summer SPIN with a distinction, NCSA Director’s letter of recognition

Andrew Sunwoo Lee

Home Department: Chemistry
Project: Multiscale modeling of the cell membrane-associated phenomena
Mentors: Dr. Taras Pogorelov

Colter Wehmeier

Jorge Rojas-Alvarez

Dr. Jill Naiman