Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

During the end of my 2nd year as a Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University (ODU) , I was fortunate to get a remote internship at Bihrle Applied Research Inc  (BAR) -- an aerospace and aerodynamics company near NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. This is my 2nd remote internship opportunity in the United States after having an excellent internship experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Summer 2020 . Although the internship was remote, I was called for three days of on-site training to familiarize myself with  the project and tasks  I had to accomplish during the summer.  I worked as a summer intern   on a Rail- Inspector project -- a cloud-based software that automatically processes aerial imagery of railroad  tracks using machine learning and deep learning to identify track components, make measurements,  and identify defects. During the internship, I worked with the technical development team of  BAR’s Ardenna business u...