Summer 2026 Visiting Students

This year, we welcomed 10 visiting students (faculty hosts in parentheses), four mentor interns, and five youth interns, for a total of 19 summer interns:

Student Interns

• Prashanti Anderson, MIT (Madhur Tulsiani, Jeff Xu)
• Aniket Anand, University of Chicago (Zhewei Sun)
• Tianlong Huang (Zhiyuan Li)
• Farnam Mansouri, University of Washington (Mahdi Haghifam)
• Davide Mazzali, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (Madhur Tulsiani)
• Jichu Li (Zhiyuan Li)
• Jiayu Shi, Tsinghua University (Zhiyuan Li)
• Anthony Yoon, University of Chicago (Jingyan Wang)
• Claire Jie Zhang, University of Washington (Jingyan Wang)
• Kaixin Zhang, Tsinghua University (Zhiyuan Li)

Autonomous Robotics IMmersions (ARM) Internship (Matt Walter)

Mentor interns:

• Michael Rodgers (Chicago Public Schools)
• Adam Frison (University of Chicago)
• Felix Odenthal (University of Chicago)
• Tomás Quinteros (University of Chicago)

Youth interns:

• Jehovanah Blahoua
• Bryce Harris
• Janelle McCallum
• Tyler McKinily
• Syncere Williams

Visiting students work on research projects in collaboration with TTIC faculty and students. This summer, project topics include computational biology, computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and theoretical computer science.

Interested in joining us as a visiting student? Apply here!

Students also visit during other times of the year, and some students maintain longstanding collaborations with TTIC faculty.