Thomas Zhang is a senior majoring in mathematics with a concentration in general mathematics, and minoring in computer science. He had heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through his academic advisor. He currently works as the Website Content Strategist for Habitat for Humanity. His responsibilities include creating content for their website, advertising their houseware furniture store...
Student Spotlights
Kriti Sharma is a senior double majoring in computer science and chemistry, and minoring in english. She started working with ATLAS in the summer of 2018 after hearing about the program through her advisor. She currently works as the Social Media Specialist for the I.D.E.A. Store. Specifically, she coordinates with people who work at the I.D.E.A. Store and aligns...
Yuying Wang is a senior double majoring in mathematics and economics and minoring in applied statistics. She had heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through her former roommate, who had also worked as an intern at ATLAS. She currently works as a Marketing and Social Media Intern for the Student Money Management Center (SMMC). Her duties include managing the SMMC’s YouTube channel; more...
Shouqi Zhang is a junior majoring in statistics and minoring in informatics. She heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through her advisor in the Department of Statistics. As a Data Analyst for the Student Money Management Center (SMMC), her responsibilities include using R to collect and curate data for their social media platforms, and writing content for the same. During...
Sihan Yang is a junior majoring in statistics and minoring in business. Her professor in the ‘Principles of Business Communication’ course (BTW 250) had told her about the ATLAS program. She serves as a data analyst and content writer for the Student Money Management Center. She is required to edit and send bi-weekly emails to all students and parents subscribed to the LAS emailing list. To...
Sangyeol Baek is a senior majoring in mathematics and computer science. He encountered ATLAS while researching summer internships. As a Data Analyst, Sangyeol gathers and organizes data from the ATLAS Reporting Services server and/or Excel; after organizing this data, Sangyeol prepares data visualizations using Tableau. Through the internship, he has learned SQL and data visualization...
Raymond Jurkiewicz is currently a senior studying mathematics. He heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through ATLAS’s own Randy McCarthy. Raymond is currently working with Rebecca Thornton, who is a developmental economics professor with focuses on education health and gender, as a Data Analyst. His project is looking at data from the past five years on students who...
Prashant Pokhriyal is a junior studying statistics and computer science. He heard about the ATLAS Internship Program through an email advertisement, as well as the positive words of his peers. He is currently working with the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics. Over the summer, he began creating an app for the Fighting Illini Sports Tech program to manage all of their machines and...
Benjamin Lawrence is currently a junior studying computer science and anthropology. He heard about the internship program through an eye-catching flyer he saw around campus. He is now interning with the Administrative Information Technology Services (AITS). His role at AITS is as a Website Content and Development Strategist. This means that he fixes webpages to make them more...
Xuanyi Wang is a Junior who is studying econometrics. He found the internship program while searching on Google! He works directly for the ATLAS Internship Program as a Data Analyst. He is currently working on visualizations for the website concerning the intern population. He is working to make all this data easier to understand and visible for the rest of the program. He is...