Cornell University SEG Grants Support Summer Internships and Research Projects

Hamid Rezaee ’26 spent this summer at Cornell Tech in New York City, working to refine a computer model that will help radiologists detect small cancer cells before they spread further in the body.

He was among the 119 students from the College of Arts & Sciences awarded Summer Experience Grants (SEG) this year. The grants help students pay for housing, food, transportation and other expenses while they undertake minimally-paid or unpaid summer internships or positions.

Rezaee, a computer science major, has spent the last two summers interning and conducting research in New York City, first with a startup aerospace company and now with a research team at Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medical Center.

“I’m well over 200 to 300 failed experiments at this point,” Rezaee said in July, quickly adding that that’s actually a good thing. “My task is to train this model to spot cancer cells using fMRI images of brain scans. And these can be as small as 4 pixels.”