The IMPACT of Summer Interns

This summer's group of interns -- Anisha Kabir, Bethany Kuo, and Tony Park -- are an excellent example of the contributions interns make to project teams over the course of 10 weeks and the valuable career-related skills they gain from working closely with experienced mentors and scientists in the fields of Earth science and computer science. IMPACT's machine learning group researches how to apply natural language processing (NLP) and knowledge graph technologies to improve the discovery of knowledge within Earth sciences. These three interns fit naturally into this effort. Bethany Kuo is a computer science and linguistics double major at the University of Maryland College Park. In collaboration with IMPACT team members, Ms. Kuo explored the effectiveness of combining a knowledge graph with BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers) sentence embeddings and graph convolutions to surface related information in order to provide answers to natural language queries.