HPCC Systems Intern Program - Class of 2019

Find out more about the HPCC Systems Summer Intern Program including how to apply and read this blog introducing the students and their projects.

10 students joined our intern program in 2019. Our students presented about their projects at our tech talk webcasts during the year and some were able to enter our 2019 Poster Contest held at our HPCC Systems Community Day Summit held in Atlanta, October 2019.

Meet the Class of 2019

NameProject TitleDescriptionMentor(s)Resources

Huafu Hu

Masters of Science
Georgia State University

Analysing telematics data to support the connected cars industryAnalyzing Telematics Data using the processing power of HPCC Systems to find a solution that provides the Connected Car industry with an optimized infrastructure.Lili Xu
Dr Meng Han (KSU)

Tech Talk Presentation, November 2019 

Poster 

Blog Journal

Muiredach O'Riain

BSc in Music and Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London

Machine Learning and the Forensic Applications of Audio Classification: An exploration of the forensic applications of sound classification using Artificial Neural NetworksUse HPCC Systems to help build a reliable classification model that is able to accurately classify an input sound file to its location.

Bob Foreman
Richard Chapman
David de Kock
Dr Michael Yee-King (
Goldsmiths, University of London)

Poster

Blog Journal

Christopher Connelly

Data Scientist
North Carolina State University 

Cleaning and analysis of collegiate soccer GPS data in HPCC SystemsCollect GPS data with the help of the NCSU men's and women's teams which will be processed and analysed using HPCC Systems, for example, typical movement patterns for certain drills or differences between positions, distances for typical efforts at different speeds and distance recorded in GPS data for a specific effort against a known distance.

Raja Sundarrajan
Dr Vincent Freeh (NCSU)

Tech Talk Presentation, November 2019 

Poster

Community Day presentation
Watch Recording  View Slides 

Blog Journal

Farah Alshanik

PhD Computer Science
Clemson University

Domain based common words list using high dimensional representation of wordsUse a text vectors bundle (CBOW) with HPCC Systems to find the common words for any datasets.Kevin Wilmoth
Dr Amy Apon (Clemson University) 

Tech Talk Presentation, September 2019

Poster

Community Day presentation
Watch Recording View Slides 

Blog Journal

Yash Jain

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) University of Mumbai, India

Cluster deployment with Juju CharmDeliver charms for the HPCC Systems platform and HPCC Systems plugins, ported to the Charms helper framework with corresponding tests in amulet.Xiaoming Wang

Tech Talk Presentation, August 2019

Blog Journal

Robert Kennedy

Masters in Computer Science 
Florida Atlantic University

Create HPCC Systems on Hyper VResearching and developing GPU accelerated Deep Learning algorithms on HPCC Systems, producing the first GPU accelerated library (to his knowledge) and expanding our deep neural network capabilties. Creating HPCC Systems VM on Hyper V was included in this project.Tim Humphrey
Dr Taghi Khoshgoftaar, (Florida Atlantic University)

Tech Talk Presentation, September 2019

Poster

Community Day presentation
Watch Recording View Slides

Blog Journal

Akshar Prasad

BTech in Computer Science RV College of Engineering (RVCE), Bengalaru, India

Fraud detection in value based cards Prove that the machine learning model he has chosen provides an easier method of solving the problem of identifying anomalies quickly that may suggest a fraudulent transaction has taken place.Roger Dev
Dr Shobha G and Jyoti Shetty (RVCE)

Tech Talk Presentation, August 2019

Poster 

A Suryanarayanan

Bachelor of Engineering
RV College of Engineering (RVCE),  Bengalaru, India

Evaluation of machine learning algorithmsProvide additional evaluation methods for the HPCC Systems Machine Learning Library, including running comparisons with existing benchmarks, the addition of new evaluation metrics and the enhancement of performance checking and provide an evaluation tool that integrates well with features such as the Myriad Interface.Lili Xu
Dr Shobha G and Jyoti Shetty (RVCE)

Tech Talk Presentation, August 2019

Blog Journal

Sathvik KR

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)
RV College of Engineering (RVCE),  Bengalaru, India

Interface Octave with ECLSupport Octave by allowing the embedding of Octave database queries within ECL code. This will be done with the help of simple wrapper classes to handle scalar values and structured data, including multi-threaded access from the ECL side.Dan Camper
Dr Shobha G and Jyoti Shetty (RVCE)

Tech Talk Presentation, August 2019

Poster 

Blog Journal

Vannel Zeufack

Masters in Computer Science
Kennesaw State University

Develop and assess unsupervised anomaly detection methods using HPCC SystemsAdopt a number of machine learning and big data analysis techniques, to implement an algorithm that has the ability to detect unknown cybersecurity threats. Arjuna Chala
Lili Xu

Tech Talk Presentation, September 2019

Poster 

Blog Journal

Profile of our intern program in 2019

  • 10 students - 1 BTech, 4 undergraduate, 3 Masters, 1 PhD and 1 PostDoc
  • Global and inclusive program, with four students located in India and international students from Jordan and China, studying in the USA and one student located in Europe (UK).
  • 2 returning students
  • 5 remote workers (working from home) including one student located in India and 5 office based in LexisNexis offices in Alpharetta, GA and Boca Raton, FL
  • Spread of projects: 8 Machine Learning, 2 HPCC Systems platform, 
  • 18 mentors involved - 3 new RELX mentors, 7 academic mentors

HPCC Systems platform related projects

  • Interface Octave with ECL
  • Cluster deployment with Juju charm

Machine learning related projects

  • Analysing telematics data to support the connected cars industry *
  • Machine Learning and the Forensic Applications of Audio Classification: An exploration of the forensic applications of sound classification using Artificial Neural Nets *
  • Cleaning and analysis of collegiate soccer GPS data in HPCC Systems *
  • Domain based common words list using high dimensional representation of words *
  • Create HPCC Systems on Hyper V *
  • Fraud detection in value based cards 
  • Evaluation of machine learning algorithms
  • Develop and assess unsupervised anomaly detection methods using HPCC Systems

*   Projects suggested by students themselves

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