Externship
Every year, selected PhD students and Postdocs participate in an externship program at either IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, or Almaden, CA. During the program, students continue to work on their IIDAI research project while collaborating closely with their IBM mentors.
Below is a list of participating students and their Illinois PIs:
2025 Participants
| Location | Thrust | PI | Last Name | First Name | Length | Time | |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Laxmikant Kale | Rao | Ritvik | Rsrao2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/18-8/9/25 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Minjia Zhang | Shen | Haochen | Hshen14@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/18-8/9/25 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Klara Nahrsted | Li | Jiaxi | Jiaxili3@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/18-8/9/25 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Reyhaneh Jabbarvand | Liu | Shuyang | Sl225@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/18-8/9/25 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Sasa Misailovic | Johnson | Egan | Egancj2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/18-8/9/25 |
| NY | Quantum Computing | Andre Schleife | Lee | Yi-Ting | ytlee3@illinois.edu | 10 weeks | 5/18-7/26/25 |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Ravishankar Iyer | Cui | Shengkun | scui8@illinois.edu | 10 weeks | 3/24 - 5/30/25 |
|
NY |
Quantum Computing |
Felix Leditzky | Zhou | Stephen | Juntaiz2@illinois.edu | 5 weeks | 3/17-4/18/2025 |
2024 Participants
| Location | Thrust | PI | Last Name | First Name | Length | Time | |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Vlad Kindratenko | Ma | Jeff | yuanm2@illinois.edu | 8 weeks | 5/19 - 7/13/2024 |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Ravishankar Iyer | Patke | Archit | apatke@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/19 - 8/10/2024 |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand | Ibrahimzada | Ali Reza | alirezai@illinois.edu | 8 weeks | 5/19 - 7/13/2024 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Rakesh Nagi | Rajopanth | Vivek Anand | var4@illinois.edu | 8 weeks | 5/19 - 7/13/2024 |
| NY | Quantum Computing | Felix Leditzky | Kim | Haneul | kim705@illinois.edu | 9 weeks | 6/09 - 8/10/2024 |
| NY | Quantum Computing | Eric Chitambar | Schatzki | Louis | louisms2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/19 - 8/10/2024 |
| CA | Materials Discovery | Huimin Zhao | Liu | Xuan | xliu254@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/19 - 8/10/2024 |
| CA | Quantum Computing | Andre Schleife | Lee | Yi-Ting | ytlee3@illinois.edu | 6 weeks | 6/12 - 7/19/2024 |
2023 Participants
| Location | Thrust | PI | Last Name | First Name | Length | Time | |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Lav Varshney | Baltaji | Razan | baltaji@illinois.edu | 5 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Klara Nahrstedt | Wang | Jinghua | jinghua3@illinois.edu | 10 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Vlad Kindratenko | Liu | Tingkai | tingkai2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Josep Torrellas | Iliakopoulou | Nikoleta | nmi4@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Deming Chen | Ren | Wei | weiren2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Reyhaneh Jabbarvand | Ibrahimzada | Ali Reza | alirezai@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Rakesh Nagi | Rajopanth | Vivek Anand | var4@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Jiawei Han | Xiao | Jinfeng | jxiao13@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Tarek Abdelzaher | Wang | Tianshi | tianshi3@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | ChengXiang Zhai | Ros | Kevin | kjros2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Quantum Computing | Felix Leditzky | Kim | Haneul | kim705@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Eric Chitambar | Schatzki | Louis | louisms2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| CA | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Kevin Chang | Roy | Kashob | kkroy2@illinois.edu | 12 weeks | 5/14-8/12/2023 |
| CA | Quantum Computing | Andre Schleife | Begum-Hudde | Vijaya | vijayab@illinois.edu | 9 weeks | 5/14-7/15/2023 |
2022 Participants
| Location | Thrust | PI | Last Name | First Name | |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Liangyan Gui | Cao | Shengcao | cao44@illinois.edu |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Kenton McHenry | Day | Kastan | kvday2@illinois.edu |
|
NY |
Hybrid Cloud & AI |
Nam Sung Kim | Huang | Jinghan | jinghan4@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Volodymyr Kindratenko | Liu | Tingkai | tingkai2@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Kevin Chang | Long | Zewei | zeweil2@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Volodymyr Kindratenko | Ma | Jeff (Yuan) | yuanm2@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Josep Torrellas | Nam | Hyoungwook | hn5@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Deming Chen | Smith | Scott | |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Ravishankar K. Iyer | Sreejith | Harshitha | hs34@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Deming Chen | Wang | Jinghua | jinghua3@illinois.edu |
| NY | Hybrid Cloud & AI | Gang Wang | Yang | Limin | liminy2@illinois.edu |
| NY | Climate & Sustainability | Lav Varshney | Choraria | Moulik | moulikc2@illinois.edu |
| NY | Climate & Sustainability | Atul K. Jain | Lin | Tzu-Shun | tslin2@illinois.edu |
| NY | Climate & Sustainability | Jiawei Han | Xiao | Jinfeng | jxiao13@illinois.edu |
| NY | Climate & Sustainability | ChengXiang Zhai | Zhang | Yufeng |