Introducing Anoushka Grover, a senior majoring in Statistics and in her fourth semester with the program, making her one of the most tenured members of the program. She initially learned about the ATLAS Internship Program through department emails and newsletters and decided to join to apply the technical skills she developed in class to real-world projects. Anoushka is an IT intern for the...
Student Spotlights
This is Xiaoxue Fan, a junior studying Statistics at Illinois, and this was her first semester at ATLAS. She first heard of the internship program through department emails or newsletters. Xiaoxue decided to join the ATLAS Internship Program because she wanted to apply the data analysis skills she learned in the course to the real world and gain hands-on experience as well during the internship...
Meet Olivia Diericks, a U of I junior majoring in Political Science. She first learned about the opportunity through an academic advisor, and Olivia wanted to participate in the culture of experiential learning at Illinois and gain practical skills outside the classroom. She is currently completing her first semester as a communications intern with the Community Service Center of Northern...
Ekansh Arora is a sophomore Computer Science & Linguistics major. He first heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through friends and decided to join because the opportunity to gain real experience about AI systems while also building meaningful projects used by students or advisors was motivating to him for continuously developing the project. He was also looking to strengthen his...
Agnes Akenou is a senior majoring in Political Science in her third semester with the program. She initially found out about the program from department emails and newsletters and decided to join, seeking hands-on transferable skills that will allow her to stand out in the job market. Agnes is an assistant program coordinator for Data Explorers. One of her responsibilities is to guide and aid...
Jiayi Xu is a senior majoring in Economics and Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Data Analyst with theATLAS Internship Program. As her first internship in the United States, Jiayi joined ATLAS to strengthen her technical foundation andgain meaningful workplace experience aligned with her goals in data and fintech. In her role, she analyzes enrollment data from...
Jason Tang, a sophomore majoring in Computer Science & Economics, joined the ATLAS Internship Program to gain hands-onexperience in a structured software engineering environment. After hearing about the program from friends and classmates, Jasonsaw ATLAS as an ideal place to begin his first internship.Working as a Web Development Intern with Professor Osman, Jason is developing a minimum...
Isaac Biggs is a freshman majoring in Computer Science and Geography & GIS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He isa Data Analyst Intern with the ATLAS Internship Program. He analyzes Help Desk support logs, cleans datasets, builds Tableaudashboards, and works on projects examining long-term gender patterns across UIUC colleges. Through this experience, Isaac hasstrengthened...
Fernando Degante is a junior in the College of LAS who recently joined the ATLAS Internship Program as a Research Intern in Dataand Mapping with Dr. Rini Mehta. In this role, he gathers and analyzes data on temples of Indic origin, maps their locations, andbuilds an Omeka S website to showcase cultural and architectural insights. Through the internship, Fernando has gainedexperience in website...
Evelyn Huang is a sophomore majoring in Statistics at the University of Illinois. She joined the ATLAS Internship Program to gainhands-on experience beyond the classroom, develop professional and technical skills, and strengthen her understanding of webdevelopment, especially as she builds a website for her organization. As a Web Development Intern with ATLAS, Evelyn hascompleted several projects...