Team

People who have contributed to the lab through research, collaboration, and applied project work across different years and stages of study.

2025-2026
Postdoc: 1Graduate: 3Undergraduate: 11High School: 4

Postdoc

Aditya Deshmukh

Aditya Deshmukh

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: One Health Vulnerability Dashboard Data Integration and Analytics

Graduate

Amrutha Kunati

Amrutha Kunati

Minnesota State University

Area of Research: Full Stack Development

Bhavyashree Putta

Bhavyashree Putta

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Illinois Wastewater Surveillance System (IWSS) Geosaptail Data Analytics

Tejaswi Velaga

Tejaswi Velaga

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Heat Risk Calculator Web Portal Development

Undergraduate

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Akhilasri Arla

Area of Research: Understanding Data Center Impacts: A Resource Use and Environmental Assessment Framework

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Alexa Bueno

Area of Research: Decoding the Impact of Catchment Dynamics on Horseshoe Lake Water Quality

Aman Saji

Aman Saji

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Public Health Accreditation Portal Development with LLM

Asher Chan

Asher Chan

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Horseshoe Lake Chlorophyll Prediction using Water Quality and Environmental Datasets

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Azibator Alagoa

Area of Research: Data Center Community Profile Analysis Dashabrod

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Bianca Udeogu

Area of Research: Estimating H5N1 Transmission Potential (Rₑ) Using Epidemiological Modeling and One Health Data

Manh Nguyen

Manh Nguyen

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Public Health Accreditation Portal Development with LLM

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Olukolajo (KJ) Sodipe

Area of Research: Development of a Heat Action Planning Portal for Cities

Reena Grewal

Reena Grewal

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Area of Research: Impact of Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Changes on Swine Health

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Shruti Mukhopadhyay

Area of Research: Data Center Community Profile Analysis Dashboard

Yahir Langumas

Yahir Langumas

Area of Research: Understanding Data Center Impacts: A Resource Use and Environmental Assessment Framework

High School

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Inayat Chandra

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Area of Research: Estimating H5N1 Transmission Potential (Rₑ) Using Epidemiological Modeling and One Health Data

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Issac Emmanuel

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Area of Research: Vegetation Influence on Chlorophyll Variability in Horseshoe Lake (Madison County) Using Satellite Remote

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Kavya Shah

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Area of Research: Estimating H5N1 Transmission Potential (Rₑ) Using Epidemiological Modeling and One Health Data

Pragyan Misra

Pragyan Misra

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Area of Research: Vegetation Influence on Chlorophyll Variability in Horseshoe Lake (Madison County) Using Satellite Remote

2024-2025
Graduate: 7Undergraduate: 6High School: 2

Graduate

Aarsh Patel

Aarsh Patel

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Artificial Intelligence-Based Dashboard development for Diabetic Retinopathy

Aayush Gupta

Aayush Gupta

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Inclusive Machine Learning-Based Asthma Risk Assessment Model

Raj Mehta

Raj Mehta

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Autonomic AI-ML Platform Development

Tejodbhav Koduru

Tejodbhav Koduru

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: eMindGuard: A Holistic Mental Health App

Vatsal Tailor

Vatsal Tailor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Remote sensing to detect harmful algal blooms in inland waterbodies

Yunzhe Yu

Yunzhe Yu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Chicago Community Guide Dashboard Development

Zehuang Lin

Zehuang Lin

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: LLM based Chatbot Development for Urban Intelligence Poral

Undergraduate

Angel Moreno

Angel Moreno

Area of Research: Evaluating Satellite Embeddings for Predicting County-Level West Nile Virus Incidence

Chinasa Nwosu

Chinasa Nwosu

Area of Research: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Water Pollution in Relation to Lake Bathymetry Using Machine Learning

Musa Tahir

Musa Tahir

Area of Research: Real-Time Indoor Climate Alert System with Webhook Integration

Sakara Robinson

Sakara Robinson

Area of Research: Heat Risk FAQ Chatbot for Chicago Residents

Stephanie Jiang

Stephanie Jiang

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Water Pollution in Relation to Lake Bathymetry Using Machine Learning

Zona Noman

Zona Noman

Area of Research: Designing a Personalized Heat Risk Intervention Library

High School

Ellen Hsuan

Ellen Hsuan

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Area of Research: Spatiotemporal Water Quality Assessment in Spatially Heterogeneous Horseshoe Lake, Madison County, Illinois

Yoonseo Kim

Yoonseo Kim

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Area of Research: Segmentation and measurement of Diabetic Retinopathy lesions in retinal fundus images

2023-2024
Graduate: 4Undergraduate: 8High School: 1

Graduate

Aditya Nair

Aditya Nair

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Machine Learning, Predictive AI, Epidemiology Modeling

Saaketh Kosaraju

Saaketh Kosaraju

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Environmental Risk Factors for Developing Type 2 Diabetes

Karan Jogi

Karan Jogi

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Climate Modeling

Nitish Dewan

Nitish Dewan

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Deep Learning, Google Earth Engine, Biomedical Image Processing

Undergraduate

Albert Huynh

Albert Huynh

University of Illinois Chicago

Christina Jordan

Christina Jordan

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Automated AI/ML Platform Development

Daniel Peredes

Daniel Peredes

Northeastern Illinois University

Edgar Brizuela

Edgar Brizuela

University of Illinois Chicago

Jennifer Gonzalez

Jennifer Gonzalez

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jennifer Lopez Montoya

Jennifer Lopez Montoya

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Joshua Bueno

Joshua Bueno

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Spatial Data Integration and Visualization of Chicago Community Area Datasets Using GeoPandas and VegaLite

Michael Charles

Michael Charles

University of Illinois Chicago

High School

Saye Vikram Karthikeyan

Saye Vikram Karthikeyan

Waubonsie Valley High School, Aurora, Illinois

Area of Research: Nonparametric Trend Analysis (Mann-Kendall) of Atmospheric Datasets

2022-2023
Undergraduate: 2

Undergraduate

Chenfei Hu

Chenfei Hu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Time Series Analysis, Cluster Analysis, COVID-19 Data Analytics

Vish Gopal Sekar

Vish Gopal Sekar

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Area of Research: Data Management and EPA WWTPs Data Analytics

2021-2022
Graduate: 1

Graduate

Arya Dadhania

Arya Dadhania

University of Illinois Chicago

Area of Research: Bio-medical Image Processing, deep Learning, Lung and Colon Cancer Classification