18 students selected for Blue Waters Student Internship Program April 17, 2017 Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Shodor and the Blue Waters project have selected 18 undergraduate students from across the country to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program for 2017-2018. Interns will learn to apply high-performance computing to problems in science, mathematics, and engineering through the year-long program. Their experience will begin in late May with a two-week Petascale Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Up to 1 percent of the computing capacity of Blue Waters is available for education and workforce development efforts aimed at preparing the next generation of students and teachers to tackle challenges with advanced computing power. Blue Waters, supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois, is one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and the fastest on a university campus. In collaboration with Blue Waters, Shodor and the National Computational Science Institute provide support and content for the internship program and Petascale Institute. Shodor, a national resource for computational science education, is located in Durham, North Carolina, and serves students and educators nationwide. The 2017-2018 Blue Waters Interns Mone’t Alberts, Boise State UniversityMentor: Eric Jankowski, Boise State UniversityProject: Development of Multithreaded Epoxy Simulations David Barto, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityMentor: David Bevan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityProject: Molecular Modeling of Amyloid Aggregation Valerie Becker, Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleMentor: Edward Ackad, Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleProject: Ultra-intense X-ray Laser-Matter Interaction Studies Justus Brown, University of OklahomaMentor: Zulfiquar Reza, University of OklahomaProject: High-Performance Multi-phase, Multi-component, Subsurface Fluid-Flow Simulator Development using Fluid-Phase Equilibria under Confinement Karen Canas, Hood CollegeMentor: Xinlian Liu, Hood CollegeProject: A Science Gateway and Repository of Deep Learning Neural Network Models for Biomedical Image Processing Qihua Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMentor: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProject: Molecular Modeling of Plant Hormone Receptors Xiaodan Du, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMentor: Arif Masud, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProject: Modeling of Tsunamis and Breaking Waves and their Impact on Built Infrastructure Benjamin Eckardt, Bates CollegeMentor: Henry Boateng, Bates CollegeProject: Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Crystal Growth Tyler Ewing, University of Nevada at RenoMentor: Sergey Varganov, University of Nevada at RenoProject: Understanding Catalytic Hydrogen Oxidation/Reduction in Metal-Sulfur Proteins Jaime Guevara, Boise State UniversityMentor: Eric Jankowski, Boise State UniversityProject: Tuning Magnetic Composite Properties with Conductive Polymers Caleb Ji, Washington UniversityMentor: Hong Lin, University of Houston DowntownProject: High Performance Data Analytics for Brain State Modeling Nicholas Kellas, California State University, FullertonMentor: Michael Groves, California State University, FullertonProject: Improving Global Optimization Search Schemes for Quantum Chemical Simulations Wen Rui Liau, University of California, BerkeleyMentor: James Demmel, University of California, BerkeleyProject: Reproducible Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (ReproBLAS) Caroline MacDonald, Mississippi State UniversityMentor: Andrew Mercer, Mississippi State UniversityProject: Tornado Outbreak Modeling Student Experience Drew Marshburn, North Carolina State UniversityMentor: Elena Jakubikova, North Carolina State UniversityProject: Computational Screening of Organic Dyes for Photovoltaic Applications Ernie Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez CampusMentor: Guillermo Araya, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez CampusProject: Identification of Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) in Accelerating Turbulent Boundary Layers Gage Russell, University of OklahomaMentor: Zulfiquar Reza, University of OklahomaProject: High-Performance Multi-phase, Multi-component, Subsurface Fluid-Flow Simulator Development using Fluid-Phase Equilibria under Confinement Xavier White, Kean UniversityMentor: David Joiner, Kean UniversityProject: Virtual Reality Enabled Multi-user Collaboratory Science Visualization Workspace with HPC Integration Disclaimer: Due to changes in website systems, we've adjusted archived content to fit the present-day site and the articles will not appear in their original published format. Formatting, header information, photographs and other illustrations are not available in archived articles. News Archive