22 students selected for Blue Waters Student Internship Program May 4, 2015 Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Shodor and the Blue Waters project have selected 19 undergraduate students and three graduate students from across the country to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program for 2015-2016. Interns will learn to apply high-performance computing to problems in science, mathematics, and engineering through the year-long program. Their experience will begin later this month 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. The 2015-2016 Blue Waters Interns Olivia Alford, Centre CollegeMentor: David Toth, Centre CollegeProject: Drug Discovery Performance Comparison Andrew Biedermann, University of Virginia Mentor: Michael Shirts, University of VirginiaProject: Modeling the Molecular Properties of Polymer Membranes for Water Purification Max Collins, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMentor: Alan Craig, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProject: Augmented Reality Visualization of Blue Waters Data Daniel Couch, Wofford CollegeMentor: Angela Shiflet, Wofford CollegeProject: Implementing HPC Bioinformatics Algorithms Francisco Gonzalez, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMentor: Arif Masud, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProject: Addressing FSI Issues in Blood-Artery Interaction Models Felipe Gutierrez, University of Wisconsin at MadisonMentor: Dan Negrut, University of Wisconsin-MadisonProject: Modeling and Simulation of Large-scale Fluid-Solid Interaction Problems Joseph Haddad, The University of AkronMentor: Tim O’Neil, The University of AkronProject: Parallel Implementation of Bayesian Network Structure Learning Algorithms Dinushka Herath, Clark Atlanta UniversityMentor: Dinadayalane Tandabany, Clark Atlanta UniversityProject: Undergraduate Internship for Computational Nano-engineering Research Harshil Kamdar, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMentor: Robert Brunner, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProject: Machine Learning Applied to Cosmological Simulations Platon Karpov,State University of New York at Stony BrookMentor: Alan Calder, Stony Brook UniversityProject: Toward Simulating Black Widow Binaries with CASTRO Qingyuan Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMentor: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProject: Simulations of Gas Diffusion in Hydrogenases Richard Long, Washington State University Mentor: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State UniversityProject: Topological Analysis for Plant Phenomics Data Venkata Suhas Maringanti, Trinity College in ConnecticutMentor: Peter Yoon, Trinity College in ConnecticutProject: VLSI Routing and Estimation Linh Van Nguyen, Hampden-Sydney CollegeMentor: Paul Hemler, Hampden-Sydney CollegeProject: HPC Database Implementation Intern Eric Peterson, Waubonsee Community CollegeMentor: Victor Pinks, Marmion AcademyProject: How to Build a Fast HPC n-Body Engine from Scratch Kiara Wootson, Bethune-Cookman University Mentor: Raphael Isokpehi, Bethune-Cookman UniversityProject: Predicting Microbial Genome-Encoded Biomolecular Networks Tara Urner, Earlham CollegeMentor: Charlie Peck, Earlham CollegeProject: BioInformatics with Mothur Shariemar Lopez Vazquez, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayaguez Mentor: Ana Gonzalez, Universidad de Puerto Rico en MayaguezProject: Parallelizing Suffix Array Construction Wesley Yu, University of Texas at AustinMentor: Hans Mark, University of Texas at AustinProject: Non-Impulsive Trajectory Modeling for Interplanetary Cargo Missions Several graduate students are also participating in the internship program. They are: Ran Sun, Louisiana Tech UniversityMentor: Tom Bishop, Louisiana Tech UniversityProject: Genomics in 3D: Overnight Comparative Studies of Mono-Nucleosomes Anik Karan, Louisiana Tech UniversityMentor: Tom Bishop, Louisiana Tech UniversityProject: Genomics in 3D: Overnight Comparative Studies of Mono-Nucleosomes Yuezhi Li, Illinois State UniversityMentor and project TBD In addition to the Blue Waters interns, students in the XSEDE Scholars program will also participate in the two-week petascale workshop, as will University of Illinois students Moeen Meigooni and Erik Saathoff. 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. 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