Student Spotlights

Jordan Reale is a senior majoring in Communication and works with reaching out to organizations to get them involved with students. As a Marketing and Communication Intern, she works with promoting LAS and Career Services to organizations to want them to engage with students. She also creates Instagram posts to share events and information. She is currently working on an Employer Connections...

Lexi Voelkel is a sophomore majoring in English with a minor in Media and Public Relations and works with Michelle Rome as a Communication Specialist. She is on the Communication Specialist Team, where her role involves working collaboratively to create a monthly newsletter. She and her team not only write content but also design graphics and images to enhance the overall presentation of the...

Anshi Mathur is a freshman majoring in Statistics and Computer Science and works with the ATLAS Machine Learning Team as a Data Predictor. Her role is to create a machine learning application to predict an outcome. This includes evaluating large amounts of data, cleaning datasets, creating complex machine learning algorithms, and implementing a user interface for easy access towards her model....

Karina Cen is a junior majoring in Econometrics & Quantitative Economics and works with the MCB 290 staff, Tina Knox, as a Data Intern. Her responsibility is to create a form for MCB 290 students who want to apply for a research opportunity. She is currently working on building the form using a tool called FormBuilder. She is learning how to edit and create a phrase for the form. Through her...

Raymond Lin is a junior majoring in Economics and works with ATLAS as a Machine Learning Intern. He is currently deciding what dataset he should use to predict an outcome for his final project. His current idea is to use a UIUC enrollment dataset to predict whether a student that applies will be admitted. Through his ATLAS Internship, Raymond has gained communications, working with others, being...

Yuang Cai is a junior majoring in Computer Science + Economy and works with Taren Nance as a Data Scientist. His responsibilities is to analyze data provided by his clients. Basically, it is to explain the trends behind the graph or data. Then, he comes up with a solution about how to improve certain situation. He is currently working on a project which is help the people who drop out from school...

Karen Xiong is a sophomore majoring in Molecular & Cellular Biology and works with Michelle Rome as a Web Developer. As a Web Developer, she works with other ATLAS web developer staff to build and redesign websites, ensuring that they are visually appealing and function properly. This is accomplished through the use of WordPress, which provides thorough templates that can then be further...

Sangjun Ko is a junior majoring in Statistics and works with the ATLAS Machine Learning Team as a Data Predictor. His responsibilities include building predictive machine learning models using data-sets to come up with useful insights. He is currently using student enrollment data to build a predictive model on international students in each college department in UIUC. Through his ATLAS...

Ihor Salyk is a sophomore majoring in Statistics and works with Michelle Rome as a Documentation and Training Intern. Originally, his role was as a Documentation and Training Intern, but he describes himself as more of a data-oriented programmer for this job. Throughout the internship, he has been working on creating an automated script that takes a URL from the user and outputs a visualized...

Yichi Zhai is a senior majoring in Math & Statistics and serves as a Data Analyst Intern with the University of Illinois Police Department. She is currently focused on analyzing and organizing the K9-therapy dog training and deployment data. She is responsible for ensuring that the data is accurately recorded and easily accessible for future analysis, which involves database management and...