Research Computing Student Workers


The Research Computing Student Worker Program is dedicated to supporting RC staff and advancing computational research at UVA. Through this program, student workers will undertake short-term projects, relieving RC staff of certain responsibilities and allowing them to devote more time to scaling support for complex, research-domain endeavors. This initiative not only benefits RC staff but also provides students with valuable exposure to high-performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing early in their academic journey.

Student Manager: Gladys K. Andino, PhD, Strategic Services and Education Manager
For any questions, please email rc-studentjobs@virginia.edu.

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Recent Projects


Student: Adam Eubanks

Project Description: Adam contributed to the XALT containerization project by developing a Docker container for running XALT on UVA RC clusters. His work streamlined deployment of XALT, a tool which will help UVA RC with usage tracking and resource allocation.

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Student: Matthew Galitz

Project Description: Matthew contributed to the Rivanna Utilization Statistics project. This initiative enhanced the efficiency of generating usage statistics and allocation reports for UVA’s Rivanna high-performance computing system. By developing scripts that aggregate and analyze computational resource utilization, his work supports strategic planning of resource allocation and infrastructure upgrades.

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Student: Juwon Park

Project Description: Juwon contributed to the Image Processing with Matlab project, which utilized image processing functionality to skeletonize a brain image for a consultation. The project explored Matlab's various capabilities for image transformation, simplifying the quantification of fluorescent changes across brain tissue for further research.

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Student: Hari Periyasamy

Project Description: Hari contributed to the Workshop Data project. He worked on creating a microservice that takes in a specified time period and returns a list of the number of workshops and the number of registrants for each workshop. The goal was to gain a better understanding of the workshops that should continue to be offered, as well as which departments we should target for advertising our workshops to maximize utilization.

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Student: Diya Tomar

Project Description: Diya contributed to the ACCORD Containers project. She worked on updating the containerized applications available on ACCORD, particularly the Jupyter Python and RStudio Server environments, to the latest versions. She also worked on developing scripts to test these environments. This work aims to support researchers by providing the latest versions of these environments and ensuring that researchers have access to the newest functionalities.

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