Name: Xinyi Wang
Class Year: 2019
Major: Mathematics and Computer Science
Hometown: China
Internship Placement: REU CAAR (Research Experience for Undergraduate Student, Combinatorics and Algorithms for Real Problems) at University of Maryland
Job Title: Student Researcher
Location: College Park, Md.
What’s happening at your internship?
The research problem that I am working on is Adversarial Patch Attack on Deep Neural Network. Briefly speaking, we are trying to design a patch that Person A can wear to fool the facial recognition system to make it wrongly think that it is Person B.
Why did you apply for this internship?
I hope to gain some research experience to decide whether to apply to graduate school, and deep learning is a field that I am interested in.
What has been your favorite part of this internship?
Collaborating with my teammates.
Can you give us three adjectives and three nouns that describe your internship experience?
- Collaborative
- Inspiring
- Interesting
- Research
- Computer Science
- Mentorship