Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

This summer (summer of 2022), we (Himarsha Jayanetti, Gavindya Jayawardena, and Yasith Jayawardana) got the opportunity to intern at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under the Graduate Research Assistant Program . Himarsha and Yasith worked as a part of the Library's Research and Prototyping Team  (Proto Team) under the supervision of Drs. Martin Klein and Shawn M. Jones . Gavindya was supervised by Brian Cain on the Institutional Scientific Content (ISC) Team. Each of us was responsible for one of the three main components that make up the "PDFServer". What is the PDFServer? PDFServer is a prototype to support LANL's Review and Approval System for Scientific and Technical Information (RASSTI) , which is the starting point for collecting LANL’s documented scientific output and it provides workflows for authors and reviewers. The overall architecture of the PDFServer is displayed in Figure 1. We selected Laravel 9.11 , which is a PHP web application framewo...

  This Summer, I was accepted as a graduated student at the Quality Management System (QMS), a subdivision of Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) organization, at  Microsoft Corporation  located at Redmond, Washington, USA. Microsoft is an international organization, whose mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This year, Microsoft continued its student internship program for Summer 2022. Approximately 4000 students joined Microsoft in the USA to work on various projects during this Summer. Due to the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, most internships were an hybrid of both onsite and remote work. My internship was a 12 weeks program which started on May 23rd, 2022. During this internship, I worked mostly remotely as a data scientist intern under the supervision of Nikolaj Lunoee  and Kapil Jain . However, I visited the Redmond campus during the week July 25th through July 29th, 2022. Throug...