Prospective 2024 ASSIP Mentors
Select 1, 2, or 3 prospective 2024 mentors for your ASSIP application. Carefully read the linked information on this to match your interests. Previous intern research abstracts are published in Mason's open-access Journal of Student Scientist' Research (JSSR) where you can find out more about past projects. Some mentors publish certain abstracts in other journals; not all abstracts are in JSSR.
Prospective 2024 ASSIP Mentors
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Climate Variability and Change. Interns should be interested in coding and models.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: air pollution and public health.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Atmospheric Science, Air Pollution, Wildfire.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Predictability of Weather and Climate; Why we care about Tropical Heating and its effect on our weather. Experience in computer programming not required but is an asset. I hope to give the interns basic knowledge about atmospheric processes as well as have them participate in research.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Bioengineering
Quentin Sanders (also listed under Mechanical Engineering)
Format: In-person ONLY
Research interests: Rehabilitation Robotics, Exoskeletons, Prosthetics, Assistive Technology, Machine Learning.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Brain mechanisms underpinning spatial memory, cognition, and navigation; Data science; Computational neuroscience; Experimental neuroscience; Immunohistology; Fluorescence microscopy; Application of deep learning techniques (DeepLabCut; DeepEthogram);
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research Interests: Modulating protein-protein interactions for therapeutic applications, particularly in the context of cancer.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Cancer Research. Our emphasis is on an original research question for each ASSIP intern: new ideas with health impact
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Protein signaling pathway profiles in cancer tissue for targeted therapeutics
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: proteomics, Lyme disease, bacteriophages
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: mass spectrometry, proteomics
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Personalized medicine, proteomics
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Center for Spatial Information Systems and Science
Format: Fully remote
Research interests: Cyber infrastructure, geoinformatics, deep learning, agricultural remote sensing, image classification
Format: Fully in-person
Research interests: AI/Machine learning, remote sensing, climate change, smart agriculture, cyber infrastructure, geoinformation science
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Format: Fully in-person
Research interests: Biochemistry, Protein Chemistry, Antibiotics, Alzheimer's Disease, Disease Detection.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Nanoscience.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Biomaterials, Protein design, Biomedical interventions.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: synthesis and characterization of inorganic solid state materials.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: electrochemistry of quantum materials, energy conversion and storage, catalysis and sensing.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Computation, drug design, inflammation.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: host defense, antiviral and antimicrobial peptides, proteomics and data analysis, development of computational tools for data analysis.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Climate Adaptation and Flood Hazards Engineering.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Potomac Science Center (Woodbridge).
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Transportation.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Water and wastewater treatment, drinking water quality, emerging contaminant fate and transport (including PFAS).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Potomac Science Center (Woodbridge).
Computational and Data Sciences
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Computational Social Science particularly agent-based modeling of small to large groups of people.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Computer Science
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Software testing and analysis, software evolution, software dependability, Artificial Intelligence, and software engineering.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: machine learning, optimization, deep learning.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Mobile computing, Wireless sensing, IoTs, wearables.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY.
Research interests: data mining, machine learning.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Robotics, Machine Learning, Planning.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Robotics.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Computer Science (cont.)
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: 1) Autonomous driving systems/Autonomous vehicles; reliability/safety/dependability study. 2) System efforts to improve Federated learning. 3) High-performance computing (HPC) reliability. 4) GPU reliability.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Security and Privacy; Web3 Security; Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Security; Smart Contract Security. Please visit my website: https://mainarke.github.io/ to learn more.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Natural language processing, language models, human-AI interaction, explainable AI. Students are expected to be familiar with Python programming and having good mathematics background. My personal webpage is https://ziyuyao.org/.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: sustainable open source software communities, AI-enabled software tools, software engineering for AI-enabled systems
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Algorithms
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: immersive video streaming, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, and the Internet of Things
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Cyber Security Engineering
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: 6G wireless networks, Open RAN, Machine learning and Wireless Security. Be ready to work with wireless testbeds!
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research Interests: Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, Energy Harvesting, Quantum, AI Hardware, Computing
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Environmental Science and Policy
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: aquatic invertebrate ecology, invasion ecology, host parasite interactions.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Potomac Science Center (Woodbridge).
Finance, School of Business
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Blockchain, econ-CS, fintech.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Corporate Finance, Investments, ESG, FinTech, AI and Big Data
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Forensic Science
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Use of Drone technology.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Geography and Geoinformation Science
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Natural hazard modeling, GIS, space weather, critical infrastructure. I am seeking ASSIP interns for (i) an NCAR-NSF space weather critical infrastructure project focusing on modeling power grids and LEO satellite constellations, (ii) an ongoing project using image recognition from drones, and then (iii) global natural hazard modeling of critical infrastructure from climate hazards (flooding, hurricanes etc.).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Xianjun Hao
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: remote sensing applications, earth sciences and climate change.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Remote sensing, climate science, natural resource, wildfire, soil moisture and drought, clean energy, water and food security, environmental science, carbon and ecosystem.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Spatiotemporal Computing, HPC, GIS, and GeoInformatics. ASSIP fellows will participate in NSF Spatiotemporal I/UCRC projects of their choice at (www.stcenter.net).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: transportation, climate change, urban planning, urban design, human mobility, travel behavior, heat islands, wildfire, flooding, community resilience, vulnerability, equity, equality, environmental justice, gentrification, redlining, highway removal, disparity of access to destinations, natural hazards, risk analysis.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Earth Science, Artificial Intelligence.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: data science, spatial data science, machine learning, spatial modeling, simulation, diseases, human behavior.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Global and Community Health
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: infectious diseases transmission, epidemiology, one health, zoonotic disease, infant health
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Information Sciences and Information Technology
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Engineering and Computing Education; Machine Learning; Cognitive Assistants; Collective Intelligence (Crowd sourcing).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Myeong Lee (also listed under Computational Data Sciences)
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Data science for social good, with a particular focus on social media, local communities, community health, and civic technologies. Full commitment to research activities are required for interns during normal working days.
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Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Privacy, vulnerable communities, HCI
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Deep Learning, Internet of Things
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Institute for Digital Innovation
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research Interests: STEM Education, Learning Management Platforms, Assessments
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Neuroscience. We are recruiting 1st and 2nd year GMU students, not high-schoolers or 3rd/4th years for lab access reasons.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, spatial learning and memory, real-time neural network activity in relation to spatial navigation
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Mathematics
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Mechanical Engineering
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, with energy, water, and biomedical applications.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Physics and Astronomy
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Astronomy and Exoplanets.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Planetary atmospheres and ionospheres
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: The Sun, analysis of spacecraft data using the computer language Python. Some knowledge of Python and atomic structure would be helpful. I expect to take on a maximum of 2 students.
School of Systems Biology
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Exosomes, Extracellular Vesicles, Viruses, HIV,
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecular systems.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Agriculture, Microbiology, Sustainability
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Systems Engineering & Operations Research
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: computer simulation, artificial intelligence, air traffic management, electric grid, electric vehicles.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Virginia Serious Games, Computer Game Design
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Mixed/extended reality (AR/VR), Game-based learning, Simulation and metaverse
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus