2023 Presenter Information

Narjes Nourzad
Poster Title: SHADED: Shortest Anypath Routing Directed by Estimations through DSEE
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Expected Graduation: Fall 2027
nourzad@usc.edu

Madhavi Rajiv
Poster Title: Analysis of Synchronization For Pilot-Assisted URLLC Links
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
rajiv@usc.edu
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Javier Borquez
Poster Title: Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis for Hybrid Systems with Controlled and Forced Transitions
Advisor: Somil Bansal 
Expected Graduation: Summer 2025
javierbo@usc.edu
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Karkala Shashank Hedge
Poster Title: Graph-Based Scalable Sampling and Reconstruction of 3D Point Cloud Attributes for Streaming
Advisor: Gaurav Sukhatme
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
khedge@usc.edu
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Haodi Hu
Poster Title: Obstacle-Aided Path Following of a Quadrupedal Robot Through Sequential Gait Composition
Advisor: Feifei Qian 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
haodihu@usc.edu
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Thilina Ambagahawaththa
Poster Title: Large-scale mm-Wave Coupled Oscillators
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
Expected Graduation: Fall 2026
ambagaha@usc.edu
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Mostafa Ayesh
Poster Title: An 18-21GHz Non-Uniform Sub-Sampling Receiver with a Non-Uniform Discrete-Time FIR Filter Achieving 42dB Blocker Rejection in 28nm CMOS
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
abouelka@usc.edu
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Vinay Chenna
Poster Title: Inverse Design of RF Structures
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
Expected Graduation: 2026
vchenna@usc.edu

Hsiang-Chun Cheng
Poster Title: A Memristor-Based Analog Accelerator for Solving Quadratic Programming Problems
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
hcheng15@usc.edu
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Khaled Hassan
Poster Title: Design automation for Low Power PLL
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
khassan@usc.edu
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Mustafa Karamuftuoglu
Poster Title: Beyond CMOS: Unlocking Speed and Efficiency with Spiking Neural Networks
Advisor: Massoud Pedram
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025 
karamuft@usc.edu
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Juzheng Liu
Poster Title: A 16GS/s 10b Time-Domain ADC using Pipelined-SAR TDC with Redundancies and Background Delay Offset Calibration Achieving 153.8dB FoM in 4nm CMOS
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
juzhengl@usc.edu
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Soumya Mahapatra
Poster Title: A Multiphase IQ Sub-Harmonic Switching Direct Digital to mm-Wave Transmitter
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
smahapat@usc.edu

Mayank Palaria
Poster Title: Low Power Analog Kalman Filter with Digitized Integration via a Thyristor VCO for Sensor Fusion
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
palaria@usc.edu

Rezwan A Rasul
Poster Title: An In-Memory Matrix-Vector Multiplication Accelerator with Simultaneous PAM & PWM Based Coefficient Encoding and Software-Level Scrambling for Accuracy Boosting
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
rrasul@usc.edu
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Ray Sun
Poster Title: A Drift-Compensated Magnetic Spectrometer for Point-of-Care Wash-Free Immunoassays using a Concurrent Dual-Frequency Oscillator
Advisor: Constantine Sideris
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
juihungs@usc.edu
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Mostafa Toubar
Poster Title: A 20GS/s 12b 8xTime-Interleaved Hybrid Voltage/Time-Domain ADC Achieving 157dB Schreier FOM with Total Power Consumption of 300mW
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
toubar@usc.edu

Beyza Zeynep Ucpinar
Poster Title: Mapping NP-Complete Problems onto Josephson Parametric Oscillator Based Ising Machine
Advisor: Massoud Pedram
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
ucpinar@usc.edu

Ce Yang
Poster Title: mm-Wave Blocker Tolerant Receiver using Time-Based Signal Processing Technique
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
ceyang@usc.edu

Atiyeh Abbasi
Poster Title: Integration of Oscillator-based Feature Extraction with CNN for Ultralow-Power Machine Vision
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia 
Expected Graduation: Fall 2026
abbasija@usc.edu
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Akash Roy
Poster Title: Wireless Acoustic Jet Propeller
Advisor: Eun Sok Kim
Expected Graduation: Fall 2026
akashroy@usc.edu
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Wenhao Song
Poster Title: Thousands of Conductance Levels in Memristors Integrated on CMOS
Advisor: Joshua Yang
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
wenhaoso@usc.edu

Mahsa Torfeh
Poster Title: Structural Light Projection: Metasurface Design via Machine Learning Approaches
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
torfeh@usc.edu
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Zezhi Wu
Poster Title: Monolithic III-V on LiNbO3 for Nonlinear Optics Application
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
zezhiwu@usc.edu

Raymond Yu
Poster Title: VO2-ZnS Based Thermal Adaptive Radiator 
Advisor: Michelle Povinelli
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
rbyu@usc.edu

Namo Asavisanu
Poster Title: CATS: A Framework for Cooperative Autonomy with Trust & Security
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
namo@usc.edu

Kamiar Asgari
Poster Title: Nonsmooth Projection-Free Optimization with Functional Constraints
Advisor: Michael J. Neely
Expected Graduation: Summer 2024
kamiaras@usc.edu

Te Yi Kan
Poster Title: Task Offloading Mechanism for Edge-Cloud Assisted In-Vehicle Augmented Reality
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
teyikan@usc.edu

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh
Poster Title: Data Leakage and Privacy-Preserving Voice Assistants
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
wenhaoso@usc.edu

Joni Shaska
Poster Title: Joint Detection and Communication over Type-Sensitive Networks
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: TBD
shaska@usc.edu

Jayson Sia
Poster Title: A Unified Approach of Detecting Phase Transition in Time‐Varying Complex Networks
Advisor: Paul Bogdan
Expected Graduation: 2024
jsia@usc.edu
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Shiyu Li
Poster Title: Inverse Design of Wide-Field-of-View Metasurfaces
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
lishiyu@usc.edu

Anika Tabassum Priyoti
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
priyoti@usc.edu

Sara Babakniya
Poster Title: Don't Memorize; Mimic The Past: Federated Class Incremental Learning Without Episodic Memory
Advisor: Salman Avestimehr 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
babakniy@usc.edu
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Bahadir Alp Barlas
Poster Title: Accelerated MRI Near Metallic Implants at 0.55T using Hexagonal Sampling
Advisor: Krishna Nayak
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
bbarlas@usc.edu
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Sabyasachee Baruah
Poster Title: Long-Document Coreference Resolution
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
sbaruah@usc.edu
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Talha Bozkus
Poster Title: Leveraging Digital Cousins for Ensemble Q-Learning in 6G Wireless Networks
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
bozkus@usc.edu

Jeongmin Chae
Poster Title: Matrix Approximation with Side Information : When Column Sampling is Enough
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra 
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
chaej@usc.edu

Wenhui Cui
Poster Title: A Foundation Model for Advanced EEG Decoding
Advisor: Richard Leahy
Expected Graduation: Summer 2025
wenhuicu@usc.edu

Aolin Feng
Poster Title: BPQA: A Blind Point Cloud Quality Assessment Method
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
aolinfen@usc.edu
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Tiantian Feng
Poster Title: FedMultimodal: A Benchmark For Multimodal Federated Learning 
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
tiantiaf@usc.edu

Samuel Fernandez
Poster Title: Image Coding via Perceptual Graph Learning
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Fall 2027
samuelf9@usc.edu
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Aditya Kommineni
Poster Title: Context Unlocks Emotions: Text-Based Emotion Classification Dataset Auditing with Large Language Models
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Fall 2028
akommine@usc.edu

Prakash Kumar
Poster Title: Real-time Physics-Informed Deep Learning MRI Reconstruction using Non-Cartesian Sampling and a Causal Variational Network
Advisor: Krishna Nayak
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
prakashk@usc.edu

Semin Kwak
Poster Title: Frequency Analysis and Filter Design for Directed Graphs with Polar Decomposition
Advisor: Antonio Ortega 
semin.kwak@usc.edu

 Rimita Lahiri
Poster Title: Robust Self Supervised Speech Embeddings for Child-Adult Classification in Interactions involving Children with Autism
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Summer 2024
rlahiri@usc.edu
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Jianxiu Li
Poster Title: A Channel State Information-Free Framework for Location-Privacy Enhancement
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
jianxiul@usc.edu

Vasileios Magoulianitis
Poster Title: HUNIS: High-Performance Unsupervised Nuclei Instance Segmentation
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Summer 2024
magoulia@usc.edu
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Nick Mehlman
Poster Title: Detecting Poisoning Attacks against Speech Datasets using Variational Autoencoders
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
nmehlman@usc.edu

Zhanxuan Mei
Poster Title: A Lightweight No-Reference Video Quality Assessment Method
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Summer 2024
zhanxuan@usc.edu

Hong Nguyen
Poster Title: Explainable Severity Ranking via n-Hidden Comparison
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
hongn@usc.edu

Darukeesan Pakiyarajah
Poster Title: Regularity-Aware Bandlimited Approximation for Graph Signal Interpolation
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
pakiyara@usc.edu

Hee Gon Kim
Poster Title: Laser Modulated Hot Electron Emission from P-Si Nanopillars
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Research Area: Nano-Science, Nano-Technology, and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
heegonki@usc.edu
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Yijun Liu
Poster Title: Audio-Visual Processing Integration in Neural Network and Human Brain
Advisor: Richard Leahy
Research Area: Signal Processing
yijunl@usc.edu
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Matthew Ai
Poster Title: Tracking Dispersive Shifts of Quantum Devices in Real Time Using FPGA-Based Feedback
Advisor: Eli Levenson-Falk
msai@usc.edu
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Angelly Cabrera
Poster Title: Computer Vision-Based Inventory Management and Product Recommendation System
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
karycabr@usc.edu
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Neelesh Gupta
Poster Title: PaCKD: Pattern-Clustered Knowledge Distillation for Compressing Memory Access Prediction Models
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
neeleshg@usc.edu
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Komal Kackar
Poster Title: Path Finding & SAT Problems
Advisor: Sandeep Gupta
kackar@usc.edu
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Tate McAluney
Poster Title: Desktop, Inductively Coupled Plasma Generator
Advisor: Stephen Cronin
mcaluney@usc.edu

Enrique Perez
Poster Title: Topographical Spectrotemporal Analysis of EEG Signals for Autism Detection in Children
Advisor: Patt Levitt
perezenr@usc.edu

Grace Zhang
Poster Title: An Implementation of a Bi-Directional Neural Interface with Artifact Attenuation
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
gracezha@usc.edu
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