The University of Illinois Information Trust Institute's 2008 summer Undergraduate Research Internship program was a great success.
Below is a list of the 2008 interns, accompanied by posters or other material (where available) that they prepared to show their accomplishments during the internships.
Congratulations to everyone for a successful summer!
- Pooja Agarwal of the Manipal Institute of Technology, India, worked with Dr. Himanshu Khurana on attribute-based messaging.
- Igor Andjelkovic of the University of Belgrade, Serbia, worked with Prof. Darko Marinov on improving the performance of Java PathFinder, a tool for finding violations of safety properties in programs.
- Aman Bhatia of IIT-Kanpur, India,worked with Prof. Vikram Adve on designing and implementing compiler algorithms for a parallel programming language.
- Varsha Chittawar of IIT-Kharagpur, India, worked with Prof. Ravi Iyer on documenting and supporting a detailed compiler-based error detection technique.
- Devonne Fowlkes of Tennessee State University at Nashville worked with Prof. Tim Bretl on problems of trajectory generation and control in support of a project involving an industrial robot arm equipped with a wiper blade to sort and separate hundreds of small objects by pushing.
- Abhishek Garg of IIT-Delhi, India, worked with Prof. Ravi Iyer on documenting the current status of development of the NFTAPE fault injection framework and attempting to integrate all independent fault injection techniques developed in his group into the broad NFTAPE framework.
- Raman Khatri of IIT-Delhi, India, worked with Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran on reviewing and summarizing literature related to the "cryptutor" wiki.
- Namho Kim of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Tim Bretl on compiler-analysis support and documentation for neural interfaces for trustworthy control of semi-autonomous robotic systems.
- Jessa Wang Liying of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Dr. Himanshu Khurana on a simplified security key management scheme.
- Daniel McKenna of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Geir Dullerud on developing a new capability for a distributed robotic testbed, the HoTDeC, so that it can be operated over the web from distributed locations by different simultaneous users.
- Thomas Nicol of Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, worked with Prof. Jerry Hajjar on the IT-related operation of the Multi-Axial Full-Scale Substructure Testing and Simulation Facility (MUST-SIM) within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
- Prateek Patel of IIT-Kharagpur, India, worked with Prof. Ravi Iyer on implementing a hardware reliability module.
- Suman Paul of IIT-Kharagpur, India, worked with Prof. Nikita Borisov on simulation and prototyping of a peer-to-peer anonymous communication system.
- Mavis Rodrigues of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Todd Coleman on developing iterative inference algorithms using packet timings for network communication/monitoring applications.
- Komal Shruti of the National University of Singapore worked with Prof. Michael Loui on studying ethical issues involved in computational research.
- Mirko Stojmenovic of the University of Belgrade, Serbia, worked with Prof. Darko Marinov on improving the performance of Java PathFinder, a tool for finding violations of safety properties in programs.
- Christos Xenophontos of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Yih-Chun Hu on physical layer security for wireless networks, examining certain problems in wireless networks that are best addressed at the physical layer.
- Shashank Yaduvanshi of IIT-Delhi, India, worked with Prof. Marianne Winslett to study ways to make use of compliance storage and secure coprocessors to support compliance in relational databases.
- Felipe Yoshida of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. George Gross on the security risk assessment and economics area of grid cyber security.
In 2008, the program received 94 applications from undergraduate students around the world. The 19 students selected participated in 8- to 10-week research projects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supervised by ITI researchers in a number of information trust research areas. Faculty and senior researchers who participated this year were from the UI departments of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Science & Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, as well as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Coordinated Science Laboratory.