2008 ITI Undergraduate Summer Intern Program Underway

5/13/2009

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Undergraduate students from around the world were selected to receive 2008 summer internships from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois. Six students will be working with computer science faculty on various security related topics. 19 internships were awarded overall.

This year marks the second offering of the annual ITI undergraduate research program, which attracted greatly increased interest following the success of last year's inaugural offering. Last year 18 winners were selected from 40 applicants; this year's winners were selected from 94 applications.

The winning students are participating 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. The awards, which are supported by state and federal funds, include intern stipends and, in some cases, an allocation for travel expenses. This year, faculty mentors participating in the program are from the Illinois departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, as well as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

In addition to working individually with faculty on real-world research projects, interns will attend weekly events at which professors present talks on various relevant topics, such as research ethics and overviews of research work ongoing at Illinois. The summer program will culminate in a poster session at which all of the interns will present the results of their work.

Below is a list of students who will be working with computer science faculty members.

Igor Andjelkovic of the University of Belgrade, Serbia, will work 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, will work with Prof. Vikram Adve on designing and implementing compiler algorithms for a parallel programming language.

Raman Khatri of IIT-Delhi, India, will work with Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran on reviewing and summarizing literature related to the "cryptutor" wiki.

Mirko Stojmenovic of the University of Belgrade, Serbia, will work with Prof. Darko Marinov on improving the performance of Java PathFinder, a tool for finding violations of safety properties in programs.

Shashank Yaduvanshi of IIT-Delhi, India, will work with Prof. Marianne Winslett to study ways to make use of compliance storage and secure coprocessors to support compliance in relational databases.


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This story was published May 13, 2009.