2019 Intern Awards Finalists Announced

We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2019 Research Park Intern Awards. The winners will be named on Thursday, July 25, during our annual Summer Picnic and Intern Awards between 4-5:30PM and, consequently, will be listed here.

Missed the awards ceremony? Watch the video.

Best Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Startup

• Winner – Shaoyu Meng: Software Engineer, LifeFoundry (Masters, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
• Xiofan Zhang: Neural Network Engineering Intern, Inspirit-IoT (Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering)
• Jugat Singh: Summer Engineering Intern, InstaRecon, Inc. (Masters, Computer Science)

Best Technological Innovation

• Winner – Harshit Gupta: Data Science Technology Intern, Syngenta (Masters, Information Management)
• Ashley Oyirifi: Biomedical Innovation Researcher, AbbVie (Ph.D., Nutritional Sciences)
• Qianli Chen: Data Scientist, COUNTRY Financial DigitaLab (Ph.D., Civil Engineering)

Most Advanced Marketing-Business Development

• Winner – Mallory Gorman: Associate Product Owner, Nutrien Ag Solutions (Undergraduate, Agricultural Engineering)
• Sherry Yi: Idea Summer Lab Intern, AbbVie (Ph.D., Educational Psychology)
• Nikita Nerkar: Web Developer, Ekey Technology (Masters, Technology Management)

Most Outstanding Graduate Student Intern

• Zhuzhu Wang: Product Development Intern, Abbott (Ph.D., Food Science)
• Winner – Saurav Yadav: Data Scientist, COUNTRY Financial DigitaLab (Masters, Information Management)
• Nuraini Aguse: Front End Intern, InstaRecon (Masters, Computer Science)

Most Outstanding Undergraduate Student Intern

• Winner – Derek Meyer: P&C Actuarial Intern, State Farm (Undergraduate, Actuarial Science)
• Avani Patel: Clinical Research Intern, PhotoniCare (Undergraduate, Bioengineering)

Most Competent and Collaborative Team

• Winner – Intelinair Agronomy and Deep Learning Intern Team
• PSYONIC Mechanical Engineering Team
• AARP Computer Programming Team