ITI Undergraduate Internship Program, Class of 2012

Below is a list of the 2012 interns, accompanied by PDFs of the posters that they prepared to show their accomplishments during the internships.  Congratulations to all on a successful summer!

• Michael J. Angelini of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler.
  • Poster: "Analysis of Firefighter Biomechanics During Obstacle Crossing"
• Estayvaine A. Bragg of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Ralph E. Johnson.
  • Poster: "Photran Automated Refactoring of Client Code to Extract Procedures"
• Lucas Buccafusca of the University of Colorado at Boulder worked with Prof. Sayan Mitra.
  • Poster: "Developing a Robot Flocking Algorithm with Message Losses Using the StarL Framework"
• Naga Varun Dasari of IIT Bombay, India, worked with Prof. Marianne Winslett.
  • Poster: "Experimental Study on the Impact of Concept Annotations on Semantic Search Performance"
• Katherine Derosier of Swarthmore College worked with Prof. Timothy Bretl.
  • Poster: "Knot Tying with Elastic Rods"
• Lyle Franklin of Ball State University worked with Prof. Danny Dig.
  • Poster: "Automated Refactoring to Convert Anonymous Inner Classes to Lambdas in Java"
• G. Alexandru Gyori of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania worked with Prof. Danny Dig.
  • Poster: "Refactoring foreach Loops to Operators on Collections Using Java8 Lambda Expressions"
• Megan Hodgson of Johns Hopkins University worked with Prof. Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler
  • Poster: "Efficiency of the Pneumatic System for a Portable Powered Ankle-Foot Orthosis"
• Kevin Hoff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Dr. Masooda Bashir.
  • Poster: "Designing Towards Appropriate Trust in Automation and Electronic Commerce"
• DongWook Kim of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Dr. Rakesh Bobba.
  • Poster: "Building a Rating System for Virtual Appliances in IaaS Clouds"
• Branden Kroske of Broward College worked with Prof. Matthew Caesar.
  • Poster: "Sending Programs 'Back to the Future' with DeLorean"
• Christopher Maier of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Peter W. Sauer.
  • Poster: "Evaluating Power System State Through a Thevenin Equivalent Circuit"
• Oliver Michel of the University of Vienna, Austria worked with Prof. Brighten Godfrey.
  • Poster: "Adaptive Source Routing and Packet Replication in Wide-area Networks"
• C. Rose Morris-Wright of Swarthmore College worked with Prof. Timothy W. Bretl.
  • Poster: "Equilibrium Configurations of Irregular Planar Kinematic Chains with Gravity"
• Zhengyu Qin of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology worked with Prof. Gul Agha.
  • Poster: "Secured Cloud Computing Framework Using ActorFoundry"
• Michael Rawson of the University of Florida worked with Prof. Klara Nahrstedt.
  • Poster: "Trusted Data Exchange Architecture in Smart Metering Devices"
• Anushree Goutam Ringne of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee worked with Dr. Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk.
  • Poster: "Studying Alert Patterns: A Step Towards Building a Finite State Machine Model for Attack Detection"
• Andri Teneqexhi of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Nitin H. Vaidya.
  • Poster: "A Simulator for a Distributed Average Consensus in the Presence of Lossy Links"
• Patrick Walsh of Swarthmore College worked with Prof. Timothy Bretl.
  • Poster: "Mechanics of Planar Elastic Kinematic Tree Structures"
• Alan Xia of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked with Prof. Marianne Winslett.
  • Poster: "Distribution of Concepts: Probabilities and Analysis"
• Di Xu of Purdue University worked with Prof. Marianne Winslett.
  • Poster: "An Algorithm in Determining Field Weight Distributions for Language Models and a New Language Model"