2022 Presenter Information

Juan Garcia Nila
Poster Title: Non Markovian Continous Quantum Error Correction
Advisor: Todd Brun
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
jgarcian@usc.edu

Sean Hackett
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
sjhacket@usc.edu

Mustafa Can Gursoy
Poster Title: Packet Scheduling under Two-Sided Delay Constraints
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
mgursoy@usc.edu
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Chen Peng
Poster Title: Multiuser Scheduling in Underwater Acoustic Networks with Transmit Beamforming
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
cpeng732@usc.edu

Lei Chu
Poster Title:Semantic Localization in B5G Wireless Network with High Dynamics
Advisor: Andreas Molisch
Expected Graduation: TBD
lc_285@usc.edu
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Valeriu Balaban
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Paul Bogdan
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
vbalaban@usc.edu
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Karkala Shashank Hegde
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Gaurav Sukhatme
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
khegde@usc.edu

Samantha Samuelson
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mihailo Jovanovic
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
sasamuel@usc.edu

Javier Borquez
Poster Title: Parameter-Conditioned Reachable Sets for Updating Safety Assurances Online
Advisor: Somil Bansal 
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
javierbo@usc.edu

Athanasios Rompokos
Poster Title: Information transfer in spintronics networks under worst case uncertain parameter errors
Advisor: Edmond Jonckheere
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
rompokos@usc.edu

Kaustav Chakraborty
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Somil Bansal
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
kaustavc@usc.edu

Ibrahim Kurban Ozaslan
Poster Title: Primal-dual gradient flow dynamics for multi-block optimization problems with consensus constraints
Advisor: Mihailo Jovanovic
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
ozaslan@usc.edu

Thilina Ambagahawaththa
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
Expected Graduation: Fall 2026
ambagaha@usc.edu

Vinay Chenna
Poster Title: Intermodulation Suppression in Passive Mixers Through Nonlinearity Cancellation of FET Switches
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
Expected Graduation: TBD
vchenna@usc.edu

Ce Yang
Poster Title: Interference Detection and Rejection Techniques for mm-Wave Receiver
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
ceyang@usc.edu
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Khaled Hassan
Poster Title: 100 GSPS Analog to Digital Converter
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
khassan@usc.edu
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Maysara Hamada
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
hamada@usc.edu
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Shiyu Su
Poster Title: Stochastic Time(Analog)-to-Digital Converter for High-Speed (>GS/s) Applications
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: PostDoc 
shiyusu@usc.edu
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Juzheng Liu
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
juzhengl@usc.edu
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Michella Rustom
Poster Title: Wireless Frequency-Division Multiplexed 3D Magnetic Localization for Low Power Sub-mm Precision Capsule Endoscopy
Advisor: Constantine Sideris
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
rustom@usc.edu

Hsiang-Chun Cheng
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
hcheng15@usc.edu
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Qiaochu Zhang
Poster Title: A Fractional-N Digital MDLL with Injection Error Scrambling and Background Third-Order DTC Delay Equalizer
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
qiaochuz@usc.edu

Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser
Poster Title: IRIS: Integrated Retinal Functionality in Image Sensors
Advisor: Akhilesh Jaiswal
Expected Graduation: TBD
mdabdull@usc.edu

Rezwan A Rasul
Poster Title: Hardware-software codesign of a vector-matrix multiplication circuit with PAM & PWM based coefficient encoding
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
rrasul@usc.edu
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Yongwei Ni
Poster Title: All Digital Electro-Optical Phase Locked Loop (AD-EOPLL) for High Performance LiDAR
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
Expected Graduation: TBD
yongwein@usc.edu
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Soumya Mahapatra
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
smahapat@usc.edu

Mayank Palaria
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
palaria@usc.edu

Jaehoon Lee
Poster Title: Wireless and stand-alone submarine propeller based on acoustic propulsion
Advisor: Eun Sok Kim 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
lee172@usc.edu

Pan Hu
Poster Title:Van der Waals engineering ferroelectric tunnel junction
Advisor: Wei Wu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
panhu@usc.edu

Zhonghao Du
Poster Title: Multi-Channel Monolithic-Cascode HEMT
Advisor: Han Wang
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
zhonghad@usc.edu
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Akash Roy
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Eun Sok Kim
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
akashroy@usc.edu
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Zezhi Wu
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
zhonghad@usc.edu
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Sushmit Hossain
Poster Title: Bio-inspired Hybrid Computing Platform for Micro-unmanned Vehicles
Advisor: Wei Wu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
hossains@usc.edu

Ragib Ahsan
Poster Title: Zero-power In-sensor Computing With Oscillatory Retinal Circuit
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: Summer 2023
ragibahs@usc.edu

Mehrdad Kiamari
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Expected Graduation: TBD
kiamari@usc.edu

Joni Shaska
Poster Title: Decentralized Detection Over Type-Sensitive Networks
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
shaska@usc.edu
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Jiang Zhang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
jiangzha@usc.edu

Ta-Yang Wang
Poster Title: Throughput Optimization in Heterogeneous MIMO Networks: A GNN-based Approach
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Fall 2024
tayangwa@usc.edu

Namo Asavisanu
Poster Title: Infrastructure-free System for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
namo@usc.edu

Omid Hemmatyar
Poster Title: Reconfigurable Nanophotonics Enabled by Phase-Change Materials
Advisor: NA
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
hemmatya@usc.edu
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Romil Audhkhasi
Poster Title: Generalized multi-channel scheme for secure optical image encryption
Advisor: Michelle Povinelli
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
raudhkha@usc.edu
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Shiyu Li
Poster Title: Transmission-matrix-based Bounds for Nonlocal Metasurfaces
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
lishiyu@usc.edu

Ho-Chun Lin
Poster Title: Full-wave multi-source simulations bypassing repetition and redundancy
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
hochunli@usc.edu
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Masayuki Okano
Poster Title: Silicon-Photonics Device Characterization System Using Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR) and Coherence Detection Method
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
Visiting Scholar
mo_911@usc.edu

Atiyeh Abbasi
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: TBD
abbasija@usc.edu

Hyun uk Chae
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: TBD
hyunukch@usc.edu

Chengwei Wei
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Jay Kuo 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
chengwei@usc.edu

Rahul Sharma
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
shar789@usc.edu
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Yifan Wang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: TBD
wang608@usc.edu
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Zohreh Azizi
Poster Title: PAGER: Progressive Attribute-Guided Extendable Robust Image Generation
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
zazizi@usc.edu
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Lucine Oganesian
Poster Title: Modeling the shared dynamical subspace between Poisson neural population spiking activity and continuous behavioral signals
Advisor: Maryam Shanechi 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
loganesi@usc.edu

Yijun Liu
Poster Title: TBD
yijunl@usc.edu

Wenhui Cui
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Richard Leahy
Expected Graduation: Summer 2025
wenhuicu@usc.edu

Pratyusha Das
Poster Title: Towards a geometric understanding of Spatio Temporal Graph Convolution Networks
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
daspraty@usc.edu
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Georgios Chochlakis
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
chochlak@usc.edu
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Shashank Sridhara
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
nelamang@usc.edu

Berk Tinaz
Poster Title: HUMUS-Net: Hybrid unrolled multi-scale network architecture for accelerated MRI reconstruction 
Advisor: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
tinaz@usc.edu
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Hongyu Fu
Poster Title: Acceleration of Subspace Learning Machine via Particle Swarm Optimization and Parallel Processing
Advisor: Jay Kuo 
Expected Graduation: Summer 2023
hongyufu@usc.edu

Vasileios Magoulianitis
Poster Title: HUNIS: High-Performance Unsupervised Nuclei Instance Segmentation`
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
magoulia@usc.edu
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Rodrigo Lobos
Poster Title: New Theory and Faster Computations for Subspace-Based Sensitivity Map Estimation in Multichannel MRI
Advisor: Justin Haldar
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
rlobos@usc.edu
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Yue Hu
Poster Title: FireFly: Synthetic Dataset for Ember Detection and Tracking in Wildfire
Advisor: Peter Beerel
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
yhu57782@usc.edu

Talha Bozkus
Poster Title: Ensemble Graph Q-Learning for Large Scale Networks
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
bozkus@usc.edu

Zhiruo Zhou
Poster Title: Green Lightweight Tracker for Long-term Tracking
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
zhiruozh@usc.edu
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Zhanxuan Mei
Poster Title: A Lightweight No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: TBD
zhanxuan@usc.edu

Xiou Ge
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
xiouge@usc.edu

Jeongmin Chae
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
chaej@usc.edu

Yun Cheng Wang
Poster Title: A multi-stage classification framework for knowledge graph completion
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
yunchenw@usc.edu
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Zhuohao Chen
Poster Title: Leveraging Open Data and Task Augmentation to Automated Behavioral Coding of Psychotherapy Conversations in Low-Resource Scenarios
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
zhuohaoc@usc.edu
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Nick Mehlman
Poster Title: Mel Domain Defense for Adversarial Attacks on ASR
Advisor: Shri Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2027
nmehlman@usc.edu

Jianxiu Li
Poster Title: A Framework for Location-Privacy Enhancement with Structured Artificial Noises
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
jianxiul@usc.edu

Xuan Zhou
Poster Title: Title: Unraveling Latch Locking Using Machine Learning, Boolean Analysis, and ILP
Advisor: Peter Beerel
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
zhouxuan@usc.edu

Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury
Poster Title: Title: Enabling Circuit Reverse Engineering Using Graph Neural Networks
Advisor: Pierluigi Nuzzo
Expected Graduation: Summer 2023
duttacho@usc.edu
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Haonan Wang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Stephen Crago
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
haonanwa@usc.edu

Yi-Chien Lin
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
yichienl@usc.edu

Sasindu Wijeratne
Poster Title: Accelerating sparse MTTKRP on FPGA
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
kangaram@usc.edu

Bingyi Zhang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
bingyizh@usc.edu

Yuan Meng
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Fall 2024
ymeng643@usc.edu

Yang Yang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Fall 2024
yyang172@usc.edu

Yue Niu
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Salman Avestimehr
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
yueniu@usc.edu
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Tian Ye
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: TBD
tye69227@usc.edu
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Fang Chen
Poster Title: Self-Attentive Pooling for Efficient Deep Learning
Category: Energy
fchen905@usc.edu
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Mingyu Zong 
Poster Title: Solving Math Word Problems Concerning Systems of Equations with GPT3
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Category: Signal Processing
mzong@usc.edu

Satwant Singh
Poster Title: Shape-based Evaluation of Epidemic Forecasts
Advisor: Ajitesh Srivastava
Area of Research: Signal Processing
satwants@usc.edu

Majd Al Aawar
Poster Title:Random Forest of Epidemiological Models for Influenza Forecasting
Advisor: Ajitesh Srivastava
Area of Research: Signal Processing
malaawar@usc.edu
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Larry Wang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari 
larrywan@usc.edu
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John Heo
Poster Title: Transformer-based Model Compression for Efficient Deep Learning
Advisor: Massoud Pedram
johnheo@usc.edu
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Ana Sanson
Poster Title: MRI Artifacts Around Orthopedic Metallic Implants
Advisor: Krishna Nayak
asanson@usc.edu

Yunhao Lu 
Poster Title: Robust Scenario Interpretation from Multi-model Prediction Efforts
Advisor: Ajitesh Srivastava
terryl@usc.edu
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Matthew Ai 
Poster Title: Improving Ramsey Number Bounds with a Quantum Annealer
Advisor: Daniel Lidar
Research Area: Quantum Computing
msai@usc.edu
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Lorand Cheng 
Poster Title: Learning Policies from Preference-Based Feedback in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
lfcheng@usc.edu

Jocelyn Liu
Poster Title: Improving Superconducting Qubit Coherence with a Modular Dissipator
Advisor: Eli Levenson-Falk
liujocel@usc.edu
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Pooja Kowshik
Poster Title: Measurement and optimization of spatial resolution for spiral MRI at 0.55T
Advisor: Krishna Nayak
pkowshik@usc.edu
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