Economics

Hongyang Yu, a junior majoring in Mathematics and Economics, is now completing his second semester as an intern with the ATLAS Data Team. After hearing about the internship through department emails, Hongyang joined the program with a clear goal in mind: to sharpen both his communication and...

Meet John Thomas, a U of I sophomore majoring in Economics. He first learned about the opportunity through his academic advisor and department newsletters, and saw the program as an invaluable tool to develop himself professionally. He is currently completing his first semester as a VR Programmer...

Frank Lee is a senior studying Economics. He heard about the ATLAS Internship Program online and he decided to join to learn more about programming and data visualizations. Frank works on a data team as a data analyst and his responsibilities include visualizing various data and analyzing data well...

Jenna Bae is a Senior studying Economics. She works as a Data Analyst Intern for the Student Money Management Center. She’s responsible for coding emails and analyzing the emails data. She also analyzes data for Instagram. She’s currently working on coding March email data and finding data for...

Chelsea Liu is a junior majoring in Economics and Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She recently found an opportunity to work as a data analyst intern with Priscilla Geerdes and Michelle Rome in the ATLAS program. Her main responsibilities include analyzing internship...

Soobin Lee is a junior majoring in Accountancy and Economics who works as a Marketing Specialist for Earnest Agriculture. Her responsibilities include creating social media and blog posts, as well as increasing original traffic for the client's website through SEO. Currently, she is working on...

Henry Yin is a senior majoring in Economics and Statistics who is currently working as a data analyst for SMMC. His job involves collecting, analyzing, and reporting data from various sources such as the SMMC social media account (Facebook), university bursar email, and Google analytics to provide...

Jiayi Pan, a senior majoring in Statistics & Economics, learned about the ATLAS Internship Program from the Economic weekly newsletter. He is a Data Analyst intern working with the ATLAS Data Services team to create specific reports for the ATLAS Internship Program. Jiayi's tasks include making...

Rami Alkadri is a freshman majoring in Economics. He learned about the ATLAS Data Team internship program through a career advisor. As a Data Team Intern, Rami's primary responsibility is to create various visualizations of ATLAS generated data using Tableau. He collaborates with one other member...

  James Zhang, an aspiring Software Development Engineer, is a junior majoring in Economics. When he's not crunching numbers, James dives into the world of virtual reality (VR) as a skilled VR programmer.  Teamwork is a key strength for James,  and he thrives in...