University of Wisconsin–Madison

Internship Project Catalog

Each semester, interns in the UW-Madison OSPO internship program join real open source projects led by faculty, researchers, and staff from across campus. The catalog below showcases the projects interns have contributed to, ranging from statistical software and scientific simulation to bioinformatics tools, climate data pipelines, and websites for the open source community itself. Interns work alongside project mentors to write code, improve documentation, triage issues, and help grow user communities, gaining hands-on experience while advancing research and tools that are used openly around the world.

Current Projects

Glowing ball of energy in the center of a Van de Graaf generator. Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash

ESSOS

Designing the next generation of fusion energy devices using Python-based optimization.

Computer code. Photo by Taras Shypka on Unsplash.

Ionic

Supporting and contributing the open source Ionic mobile UI toolkit.

Map of the world. Photo by the New York Public Library on Unsplash.

Knowledge Map

Data visualization platform for community survey data.

Maze of boxes and grates. Photo by Vlado Paunovic on Unsplash

Matern Covariance

Fast evaluation of Matern covariance functions and derivatives for R and Python.

A green pattern made up of frequencies. Photo by Logan Voss on Unsplash

Open Source Toolbox for FFRs

Open source toolbox for analyzing frequency following responses to speech.

A microscope. Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash.

OpenTIRF

Open-source Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy system.

Molecules.

Polymer Digital Engineering

Investigating water transport in polymeric membranes using molecular simulations.

Series of points forming a 3D graph. Photo by Resource Database on Unsplash

RLinearAlgebra.jl

Scaling up scientific computing workflows with randomized numerical linear algebra in Julia.

Picture of artistic interpretation of genes.

RSEM

Modernizing gold-standard software for RNA-seq gene expression estimation.

Purple plasma cutting through darkness. Photo by John Doyle on Unsplash

SPECTRAX

Modeling plasma turbulence in astrophysical systems using differentiable simulations.

Past Projects

An aerial view of a road running along a beach with trees between the road and beach. Photo by Hamdhulla Shakeeb on Unsplash.

ALIVE

Live imaging of vegetated ecosystems using satellite data and ML.

Blue and red model of a molecule. Photo by Jona on Unsplash

Anisotropic Machine Learning

Incorporating anisotropic machine learning descriptors into simulation engines.

A blue spiral on a black background. Photo by Marcus Ganahl on Unsplash.

Bioinformatics Research Support

Reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for biological research.

Picture of rows of numbers. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash.

clubSandwich

Extending cluster-robust variance estimators for regression models in R.

A lush jungle. Photo by Chris Abney on Unsplash

Dengue & Nipah Eco-Epidemiology

AI and computer vision for biosurveillance and ecological forecasting.

Series of oddly colored balls balancing on a see-saw. Photo by Myles Bloomfield on Unsplash

Interactive Live Scripts

Interactive MATLAB Live Script tutorials for physics and astronomy education.

Detailed drawings of marine plant life. Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash.

JuliaPhylo

Tools for phylogenetic analysis and visualization in Julia.

Stars and galaxy on a night sky. Photo by Alexander Andrews on Unsplash

Machine Learning Gyrochronology

Estimating stellar ages from rotation periods using machine learning.

An aerial view of a river and surrounding brown landscape. Photo by Anders Jilden on Unsplash.

NASA Cloudmask

Improving memory profile of cloud detection algorithms for satellite data.

Computer terminal filled with green text. Photo by Jake Walker on Unsplash.

OpenLambda

Serverless computing platform supporting Apache Kafka triggers.

A shadow of Bucky Badger shines onto the sidewalk in Alumni Park at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a cool autumn night on Sept. 18, 2023. Backlight in the background are iconic, cutout graphics in rusted steel of the park’s Badger Pride Wall. (Photo by Taylor Wolfram / UW–Madison)

OSPO Communications

Support the open source community at UW-Madison with clear communications.

A shadow of Bucky Badger shines onto the sidewalk in Alumni Park at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a cool autumn night on Sept. 18, 2023. Backlight in the background are iconic, cutout graphics in rusted steel of the park’s Badger Pride Wall. (Photo by Taylor Wolfram / UW–Madison). By the way, Caleb Larsen made this website.

OSPO Website

Update and modernize the website for the Open Source Program Office.

A stack of books. Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash

Promoting Open Access

Promoting open access to scholarly research through code, data, and material distribution.

Picture of a flooded region of rocks. Photo by Brian Wangenheim on Unsplash.

RainyDay

Simulating extreme rainfall scenarios for flood risk management.

Blackboard of chalk writing in a grid-like pattern. Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

scdhlm

Robustness testing for effect size calculation web apps in social science research.

Glassware for chemistry. Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash.

scikit-matter

Machine learning utilities for materials science and chemistry.

Photo of a slug. Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash.

SlugNet

Improving machine learning models to detect agricultural pests.

Black and white computer screen displaying graph data. Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash

Spike-and-Slab LASSO

Unifying spike-and-slab regularization implementations into a comprehensive R package.

Picture of the st

Sticky-Sonic Trap

Automated insect monitoring using acoustic and visual sensors.

Dense block of computer code. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Taskflow

Enhancing unit testing and CI infrastructure for a parallel programming system in C++.