qpsi intern cohorts
Spring 2025
The Inaugural Cohort!
Karley Baringer
Karley earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering (UF, 2024) and is pursuing an MS in Industrial & Systems Engineering with a focus on human-systems engineering. She has research experience in biomechanics at UF and deep brain stimulation at Duke. As a quality engineering intern at Exactech, she developed a passion for healthcare quality. She aims to become a healthcare systems or medical device quality engineer, using this internship to enhance her skills in healthcare quality and AI-driven processes. Her interests include knitting, cooking, podcasts, and hiking.

Rupakali Padira
Rupakali is a Master’s student in Business Analytics at UF with a background in Computer Science Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. She has experience as a Business Analyst at Bonnie Plants and OpenText, along with AI research at UF’s Fischer School of Accounting. Passionate about data-driven decision-making and workflow optimization, she aims to apply AI to real-world problem-solving. An avid traveler, she sees this internship as an opportunity to enhance her skills, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact.

Prajay Panangadan
Prajay is a Computer Science graduate student at the University of Florida with two years of experience at Dell Technologies developing full-stack applications using Angular and Python/FastAPI. Passionate about healthcare AI, machine learning, and NLP, he aims to apply AI to patient care. He enjoys badminton, squash, golf, gaming, and Florida road trips. Through the QPSi internship, he looks forward to working with real healthcare datasets and learning from industry experts.

Utkarsh Sharma
Utkarsh is a Computer Science graduate student at the University of Florida with a bachelor’s in Computer and Communication Engineering from Manipal University Jaipur. He worked at Accenture in Bangalore, supporting clients through Workday, and interned at IIT Kanpur, focusing on AI. Passionate about AI-driven innovation, he aims to apply AI in medical science. He enjoys story-driven video games, dancing, singing, and learning the synthesizer. This internship will enhance his AI expertise and its applications in healthcare.

Udayakumar Venkatesan
Udayakumar holds a B.Tech in Information and Communication Technology (2021) and is pursuing an MS in Information Systems and Operations Management (2025). He worked as a Software Engineer at Optum Global Solutions (2021–2023) and is passionate about big data and data-driven decision-making. Aspiring to be a Data Engineer, he aims to leverage AI for optimizing healthcare data pipelines. This internship will provide experience in applying LLMs to clinical data analysis and patient safety insights. In his free time, he enjoys baking.

Summer 2025
Coming Soon!!