Student Spotlights

Yiran Hu is a junior non-degree student working as a Website Developer with Cindy Crawford at the Community Service Center (CSC). As a Website Intern, her role encompasses enhancing the website's impact and reach in line with CSC's core values by implementing new content, creating a user-friendly and bilingual interface, and adding diverse donation options. Additionally, she is tasked with...

Amanda Wang is a senior majoring in Geography and Geographic Information Science. She is a Data Analyst working with the ATLAS Data Services team to create specific reports for the ATLAS Internship Program. These reports will be available to ATLAS and College Leadership, and the resulting reports will be published in the ATLAS Data Services Center, which securely delivers reports to members of...

Stanton Czerwinski is a sophomore majoring in Economics. He is a Data Analyst Intern for the I-Paws Therapy Dog Program at the University of Illinois Police Department. He is responsible for creating a program that will allow officers to keep track of information relating to events and trainings for the therapy dogs. He works alongside another intern, and they update and check in with the...

Wallss Wang is a senior majoring in Advertising with a minor in Communication. Wallss is a Marketing Intern for the College of LAS. She conducts market research on Podium Education’s Global Learning Experience, assessing its potential for introduction to UIUC. She also utilizes outreach strategies to identify and establish key connections with universities collaborating with Podium and exploring...

Jenna Manzano is a senior majoring in Psychology. Jenna is the Website Development Intern and Web Development Team Lead for The Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. Jenna is responsible for editing and checking the websites for old information and adding new information. Jenna also develops new pages and creates ideas for better site layouts. As the Web Development Team Lead, Jenna helps the...

Tiancheng Xiao is a senior majoring in Statistics & Computer Science. Tiancheng is a VR Content Creator for the ATLAS VR Team. Tiancheng's responsibilities are to explore various aspects of virtual reality technology, including software development and maintenance of VR simulations built in the Unity engine.Currently, Tiancheng is working on extending existing VR applications, specifically...

Mira Ryu is a sophomore majoring in Mathematics. Mira is an ATLAS Internship Program Intern. Mira's responsibilities include submitting required Canvas documentation, participating in weekly team meetings, familiarizing herself with Canvas LMS, communicating to interns and supervisors via Canvas and University email, participating weekly in the AIPI Canvas Development Space, and developing...

Nicholas Wong is a junior majoring in Statistics. Nicholas is an AI Research Intern. Nicholas is constructing a full-stack web application generating 3 “spotlight” paragraphs at a time for ATLAS using OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5-turbo API, NodeJS, and ExpressJS for backend, HTML, CSS, and regular JS for frontend.Currently, Nicholas is training a fine-tuned AI large language model using LLaMA AI’s open-...

Ruka Nakatani is a junior majoring in Economics. Ruka is a Communication Specialist for the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition. Ruka updates the website, designs some posts for their Instagram and flyers to hand out to UIUC members.A possible plan after graduation is to become a cabin attendant. Through the internship, Ruka has gained the ability to use Canva and professional communication skills.Fun...

Alexandria Stratton is a senior majoring in Political Science, Sociology, and World Literature. Alexandria is a Social Media Specialist for Feeding Our Kids. Alexandria participates regularly in food distribution initiatives, directly serving over 1,000 local children; facilitates the planning of major organizational events and projects, notably serving on the event planning committee for the...