Student Spotlights

Elroy Shi is a junior majoring in Statistics. Elroy is a Data Analyst working on Tableau and analyzing data into readable graphs.Currently, Elroy has created visualizations and reactive dashboards for departments in University of Illinois using Tableau, making complex data in an understandable and appealing manner. Elroy has also cleaned and construct the Excel spreadsheet for future use in...

Zoe Caryl is a junior majoring in Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences. Zoe heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through Handshake. Zoe is a Communications Intern for The Liberal Arts and Sciences Career Center. Zoe formats and assists with visual layout of blogs and digital display content, develops creative thematic posts for Instagram, promotes materials in the career resource...

Siyu Ren is a junior majoring in Economics and Statistics. Siyu serves as a Communication Specialist and Strategy Lead. Currently, Siyu is investigating strategies to boost social media engagement and is seeing if American Save Week aligns with SMMC's philosophy.Through the internship, Siyu has gained skills in public speaking, improved collaboration skills, improved research skills, and is...

Ridah Shaikh is a junior majoring in Information Sciences. She is a Data Analyst with the ATLAS Data Team. Her responsibilities include data cleaning provided datasets on student records, creating Tableau dashboards to display data and any analysis conducted, and presenting her findings on a weekly basis. She is currently working on cleaning a dataset on computer purchasing data from the...

Sara Khan is a sophomore majoring in Communication. She is a Communications and Marketing Intern at the Student Career Center, where she creates digital flyers promoting the Career Center and Career Fair. Sara plans to pursue a career in marketing, public relations, or HR. Through her internship, she hopes to gain leaderships and hands on experience in real world. A fun fact about Sara is that...

Sarah Toussaint is a senior majoring in Psychology/Sociology. She is a Communication Specialist/Accessibility Lead with the Student Money Management Center.As a communications specialist, she creates content for the organization's social media pages and curates e-newsletters for parents, faculty, and students at the University of Illinois, across all campuses.As an accessibility lead, she...

Nuoxing Shang is a sophomore majoring in Statistics and Computer Science. She is a Web Developer Intern, where she collaborates with ATLAS faculty web developers to identify professors and staff in need of website development or redesign. She helps establish best practices, organize and document projects, and contributes to WordPress website development using Elementor. She is currently working...

Jehyeok Yeon is a sophomore majoring in Computer Science and Linguistics. He is a member of the ATLAS AI Research Team, where he is developing a web app that uses AI to help ESL students learn English in a more approachable way.Jehyeok plans to pursue a career in NLP and earn a professional MCS degree. Through his internship, he hopes to gain experience building a product that will be used by...

William Schneider is a senior majoring in Communications and Economics. He is a Social Media Intern with the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, where he helps create content and plan future content for the center’s social media pages. He is currently preparing to interview people involved with the Lemann Center.William plans to work in PR, social media, or marketing, preferably in the nonprofit...

Zoey Yao is a senior majoring in Statistics and Computer Science who joined the ATLAS Internship Program after discovering it on Instagram. Now in her second semester as a Data Analyst with the Data Services Team, she has created data visualizations highlighting international student demographics and help desk activity. Through this role, she strengthened her communication skills and gained hands...