Year: Class of 2023 at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Role: High School Intern Projects: STRONG Interests: Tobelli, which is a company I founded that makes bioplastic out of tobacco stalks. Lab work and prototyping
Sarah Brown
Year: Class of 2023 Major: Psychology, Segal Design Certificate, and Integrated Marketing Certificate Role: Social Media Manager Interests: Marketing, market research, human centered design, hiking, and music
Annie Chen
Year: Class of 2023 Major: Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Economics, and minor in Data Science Projects: Project RED Relay, STRONG Interests: Social science models and data analysis, table-tennis, drawing, traveling, and German
Jessica Cheng
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Communication Studies and Economics Projects: My Dream Team Interests: Behavioral Science, decision-making, basketball, fashion, and K-pop
Julia Chu
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Communication Studies and Computer Science Projects: ESM Interests: Dancing, photography, and films
Eleanor Colligan
Year: Class of 2023 Major: Statistics and Data Science Projects: My Dream Team Interests: Data exploration, data modeling, writing and reading poetry, hiking
Madison DeChurch
Year: Class of 2023 at Winter Park High School, Winter Park, FL Role: High School Intern Projects: NASA Interests: Psychology, film-making, and travel
Victoria Deng
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Communication Studies, Economics, Minor in Computer Science Projects: STRONG Interests: Hiking, traveling, and photography
Akshya Dhinakaran
Year: Class of 2023 Major: MMSS and Statistics, Data Science Minor Research Project: Science of Science Interests: Data science, healthcare, and tennis
Rachel Estafanous
Year: Class of 2023 Major: Psychology Role: Website Manager Interests: Web design, graphic design, painting, and marketing
Carli Kelley
Year: Class of 2024 Major: School of Communication Project: Enterprise Social Media Interests: Sports, music, reading, and dancing
Olga Lew-Kiedroska
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences
Research Project: Social Sentinel/NSF Car Project
Interest: Behavioral science, game theory, data science, tennis, art, and baking
Sharon Lin
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Data Science, Economics, and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences
Project: NSF Car Project
Interest: Data visualization, social & behavioral sciences, cafe-hopping, cooking & baking
Selena Rocha
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Biology on Pre-med track
Role: Social Media Intern
Project: ICA Podcast Network
Interest: Painting, popular culture, and traveling
Mika Ng
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Project: NEK, STRONG
Interest: Human factors, supply chain management, and operations research
Yun Teng
Year: Class of 2022 Major: Biology on Pre-med track
Project: Safe Bets
Interest: Natural language processing, deep learning, and social network analysis
Ploenta (Ploen) Voraprukpisut
Year: Class of 2024 Masters Program Major: Computer Science
Project: My Dream Team
Interest: baking and cooking
Vicky (Chumei) Wei
Year: Class of 2023 Major: Economics and Statistics, Kellogg certificate in Financial Economics
Project: RED
Interests: Ultimate Frisbee and cooking, all kinds of food!
Molly Whalen
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Industrial Engineering and Cognitive Science
Project: NEK
Interest: AI, Human-centered design, hiking, and reading
Skyler (Muchen) Zhong
Year: Class of 2024 at University of Rochester Major: Data Science and Economics. Minor in Statistics and Digital Media Studies
Project: STRONG
Interest: Data analysis and visualization, piano, and drawing
Erica Ewing Zhou
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Data Science and Economics
Year: Class of 2024 Major: Communication Studies and Data Science Project: STRONG Interests: computational social science, human-computer interaction, photography and traveling