Summer months take DAC students to professional internships and jobs across the country

A number of graduate students at the Discovery Analytics Center have opted for internships and jobs at companies and national laboratories across the country this summer as a way of both benefiting their own research and gaining real world experience.

Following is a list of where they are for the next few months:

Aman Ahuja, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is an applied scientist intern at Amazon in Palo Alto, California. He is on the Amazon Search Team, researching product search techniques. His advisor is Chandan Reddy.

Tyler Chang, a Ph.D. student in computer science, has begun a six-month appointment at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. He is one of 70 graduate students who received an appointment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) to work on his thesis. The goal is to produce a portable multi-objective optimization software which Argonne could utilize in the future. Chang’s advisor is Layne Watson.

Jinwoo Choi, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, is a research intern at NEC Labs America, San Jose, California, working on domain adaptation for video. Choi’s advisor is  Jia-Bin Huang.

Chen Gao, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, is a research intern on a video completion project at Facebook in Seattle, Washington. He is working on an algorithm that synthesizes missing regions of videos. His advisor is Jia-Bin Huang.

Liuqing Li, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is on the Content Science team at Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California, working on document recommendation through reinforcement learning. His advisor is Edward Fox.

Sneha Mehta, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is a data science intern at the Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos, California. She is researching novel methods to improve machine translation for subtitles. Her advisor is Naren Ramakrishnan.

Shruti Phadke, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is an intern at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She is working on developing scalable machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to detect public sentiment in news and social media. Her advisor is Tanushree Mitra.

Esther Robb, a master’s degree student in electrical and computer engineering, is a research intern at Google in Mountainview, California, where she is working on facial recognition. Her advisor is Jia-Bin Huang.

Alexander Rodriguez, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is a research intern at WalmartLabs in Sunnyvale, California. His advisor is B. Aditya Prakash.

Dhruv Sharma, a master’s student in computer science, is working at Kitware, Inc., in Carborro, North Carolina. As a research and development intern, Sharma’s work includes some medical image processing/machine learning tasks; mining EHR data for prediction of risk, procedure outcome, or other events; and analyzing training needs of healthcare providers. He is advised by Chandan Reddy.

Tian Shi, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is an intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, where he is working on machine comprehension and question-answering on clinical notes in the healthcare domain. His advisor is Chandan Reddy.

Shih-Yang Su, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, is a research intern at Borealis AI in Vancouver, Canada, working on graph convolution for structural prediction. His advisor is Jia-Bin Huang.

Deepika Rama Subramanian, a master’s student in computer science, is a mobility intern at Lam Research, Fremont, California, working on designing and developing an end-to-end mobile application for field engineers at Lam Research. Her advisor is Tanushree Mitra.

Anika Tabassum, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is a research intern at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she will be applying data mining and visualization skills in two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects: “Reynolds Landing Research” and “North American Energy Resilience Model.” Her advisor is B. Aditya Prakash.

Sai Sindhura Tipirneni, a master’s student in computer science, is working in the Quantum Computing Lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her advisor is Chandan Reddy.

Ping Wang, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is an intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, where she is working on question answering on electronic medical records using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Wang’s advisor is Chandan Reddy.

Sirui Yao, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is a research intern at Google AI in New York City, where she is studying noise and bias in dynamic recommender systems. Her advisor is Bert Huang.

Ming Zhu, a Ph.D. student in computer science, is at Amazon in Seattle, Washington. She is an applied scientist intern for Amazon Comprehend Medical, working on Natural Language Processing on medical corpora using deep learning. Zhu’s advisor is Chandan Reddy.

Yuliang Zou, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, is a research intern at NEC Labs America in San Jose, California, where he is working on unsupervised scene structure learning. His advisor is Jia-Bin Huang.