Information Trust Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Information Trust Institute's 2009 summer Undergraduate Research Internship program was a great success.

Below is a list of the 2009 interns, accompanied by posters that they prepared to show their accomplishments during the internships.

Congratulations to everyone for a successful summer!

• David M. Austin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler on the development of new computational tools for quantifying the complex dynamics of human movement, specifically locomotion.
  • Poster (with Federico Scholcoff): "Method to Consolidate Motion Capture Data and Create Working Database Script for Universal Data Access"
• Abner Ayala of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, worked with Prof. William H. Sanders on security, reliability, and availability metrics and modeling tools.
  • Poster: "Modeling Power Grid Cyber Security on Möbius"
• Jashua Gupta of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. George Gross on research related to electricity markets.
  • Poster: "Analysis of Wireless Communication and Networking Needs for Implementation of V2G Technology"
• Parth Gupta of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, worked with Dr. Himanshu Khurana on distributed systems, security, access control, critical infrastructure protection, and key management.
  • Poster: "PMU Data Compression"
• Shashank Gupta of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, worked with Prof. Sayan Mitra on statistical model checking of distributed and real-time systems and the reliable implementation of embedded systems.
  • Poster: "Building Primitives for a Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Distributed System over Wireless Networks"
• Bobak Hadidi of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Darko Marinov on topics in software testing, software reliability, and software engineering.
  • Poster: "Automated Testing of the Actor Modelin Java-Based Languages"
• Henry Kohring of the University of Michigan worked with Prof. Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler on the development of a novel untethered AFO (Ankle-Foot-Orthosis)
  • Poster: "Fluid Power Assisted Orthosis"
• Christopher Li of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Todd Coleman on message-passing algorithms, wireless communications, statistical data analysis for security, and digital rights management applications.
  • Poster: "Information Theory and Application of Communications via Timing Channels"
• Akihiro Maeda of Amherst College worked with Prof. Tim Bretl on trustworthy human operation of semi-autonomous robotic vehicles.
  • Poster: "Is Visual Feedback Used to Control a Mouse When a Cursor Is Far From the Target?"
• Rayman Preet Singh Matharu of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, worked with Prof. Yih-Chun Hu on topics in network security and wireless security.
  • Poster: "Effective and Secure Transmission Power Control for VANETs by Distributed Vehicle Density Estimation"
• Charlie Meyer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Ralph Johnson to develop automated refactoring tools that enable programmers to refactor sequential code into parallel code that uses parallel libraries, such that the refactored code is thread-safe and scalable.
  • Poster: "Mocking an Integrated Clinical Environment With JavaScript"
• Richard Otap of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Geir Dullerud on topics involving distributed robotics, hardware, and software.
  • Poster: "Development of a Web Interface and API for Networked Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems"
• Pichayoot Ouppaphan of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran on theoretical cryptography and provable security, including secure multiparty computation, encryption schemes, signature schemes, security definitions, and secure composition of protocols.
  • Poster: "Exploring the Limit of Coin-tossing Functionality in Information Theoretic Model"
• Cosmin-Aurel M. Radoi of the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara worked with Prof. Ralph Johnson and Danny Dig to develop automated refactoring tools that enable programmers to refactor sequential code into parallel code that uses parallel libraries, such that the refactored code is thread-safe and scalable.
  • Poster: "Automated Refactoring for Loop Parallelism in Java"
• Praveen R. Rokkam of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, worked with Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk on the design and evaluation of reliable computing systems and applications.
  • Poster: "Hardware Error Injection for Coverage Analysis of CVR Error Detection"
• Yenugula Sandeep of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, worked with Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk on the design and evaluation of reliable computing systems and applications.
  • Poster: "NFTAPE Fault Injector for Win32 Applications"
• Federico Scholcoff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler on the development of new computational tools for quantifying the complex dynamics of human movement, specifically locomotion.
  • Poster (with David Austin): "Method to Consolidate Motion Capture Data and Create Working Database Script for Universal Data Access"
• Jonathan Schrock of Taylor University worked with Prof. David Nicol on topics in cyber-security technology and policy, high-performance computing, and modeling and simulation of large-scale systems and networks.
  • Poster: "Pre-computing Solutions to Power System Contingencies"
• Aleksandr Shulman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Dr. Himanshu Khurana on distributed systems, security, access control, critical infrastructure protection, and key management.
  • Poster: "Implementation of Policy-Based Encryption System for Data Sharing in the Power Grid"
• Mihai-Adrian Tarce of the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara worked with Prof. Ralph Johnson and Danny Dig to develop automated refactoring tools that enable programmers to refactor sequential code into parallel code that uses parallel libraries, such that the refactored code is thread-safe and scalable.
  • Poster: "Safety Analysis for Loop Parallelism in Java"
• Jane Tu of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Narendra Ahuja on visual inspection of railcars, 3D mapping of buildings, and object recognition.
  • Poster: "3-D Mapping of Buildings from Stereo Images"
• Winston Wan of Carnegie Mellon University worked with Prof. Roy Campbell on topics related to operating systems, distributed systems, mapping/reduction, location awareness, and mobiles.
  • Poster: "Automated Static Forensic Analysis Tools for Volatile Memory Dumps"

In 2009, the program received 351 applications from undergraduate students around the world. The 21 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, and Mechanical Science & Engineering, as well as the Information Trust Institute and the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

The program was supported by the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program of the National Science Foundation under Grant CNS-0851957. The views, opinions, and conclusions expressed here are not necessarily those of the University of Illinois or the National Science Foundation.