{"id":2321,"date":"2026-09-22T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:24:41","slug":"congratulations-to-the-cohort-of-students-in-the-2026-isi-research-experience-for-undergraduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the cohort of students in the 2026 ISI Research Experience for Undergraduates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recently completed the Summer 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/reu.isi.edu\">Research Experience for Undergraduates program at USC\/ISI<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Congratulations to our students from around the U.S.:  Anirvan Bagchi, from University of Georgia;  Zoe Fingleton, from Smith College; Andrew Gutierrez, from U. California-Davis; Samchan Lee, from Swarthmore; Marlena Pegolo, from George Washington University; Jaisen Soundar, from Georgia Tech; Kristelle Widjaja, from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Eric Wu, from Brown University;  Brian Zhang, from Carnegie Mellon University;  and Patrick Zheng, from University of Maryland!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-1024x484.jpg\" alt=\"The 2026 ISI REU cohort of students, and some mentors.\" class=\"wp-image-2322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-1536x726.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-2048x968.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-1200x567.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260806_3548_cropped-1980x936.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to our mentors: Jose-Luis Ambite, Andrea Belz, Michael Collins, Emilio Ferrara, Itay Hen, Mayank Kejriwal, Deborah Khider, Erik Kline, Luca Luceri, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Alexey Tregubov, and PI and mentor Jelena Mirkovic with co-PI and mentor John Heidemann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We wish our summer undergraduate students the best as they continue their undergraduate programs this fall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reu.isi.edu\">SRAII, the ISI REU program<\/a>, is supported by the National Science Foundation, and the mentors have diverse support from USC\/ISI, NSF, DARPA, NIH, and industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently completed the Summer 2026 Research Experience for Undergraduates program at USC\/ISI. Congratulations to our students from around the U.S.: Anirvan Bagchi, from University of Georgia; Zoe Fingleton, from Smith College; Andrew Gutierrez, from U. California-Davis; Samchan Lee, from Swarthmore; Marlena Pegolo, from George Washington University; Jaisen Soundar, from Georgia Tech; Kristelle Widjaja, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,61,201,57],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-isi","tag-posters","tag-reu","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}