ECE 15th Annual Research Festival
The Ming Hsieh Institute is proud to host the annual Electrical Engineering Research Festival. This day-long event highlights the innovative research of ECE Ph.D. and undergraduate students through poster sessions and demonstrations. The entire USC Viterbi community — along with alumni and industry guests — is invited to join us in celebrating the achievements of our researchers.
Our schedule is included below, with additional details.
Schedule of Events
All Events at the Epstein Family Plaza/VHE Breezeway at the Viterbi School of Engineering.
On October 31st, 2025
- 8:30 am - 9:00 am: Check In
- 9:00 am - 12:00 pm: Poster Session I
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch
- 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Poster Session II
- 4:15 pm - 4:45pm: Awards Ceremony and Reception
Presenters & Research Title
- PhD Students
- Ray Sun: Ultrafast Electromagnetic Inverse Design
- Mohamed Elsawaf: Ultrafast Electromagnetic Inverse Design
- Davit Aslanyan: A High-Order Accurate Integral Equation solver for Scattering Problems in Domains with Corners
- Omid Sharafi: Electric Field Stimulation Enables Remote Activation of Retinal Ganglion Cells Ex-Vivo and In-Vivo
- Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani: TBD
- Yixing Wu: TBD
- PhD Students
- Md Farhad Hassan: Edge AI-Driven Optodermal Ring for Enhanced Stress Management
- Hadi Mokhtari Dowlatabad: Magnetoelectric Nanoparticle-based Wireless Retina Stimulation
- Hasini Ramachandran: Firmware Development, Testing, and PCB Design of Wireless Electrodermal Activity Sensing Circuit
- Munia Ferdoushi: Multimodal Wearable Sensors for Precision Psychiatry
- Zhiyuan Zhao: Label-Free In₂O₃ Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistor-based Biosensor Platform for Attomolar Exosomal microRNA Detection
- Thilina Ambagahawaththa: Mentaid v2: Wearable Hardware and Software System for Mental Health Monitoring
- Felix Munoz: Flexible Coils and Wireless ECG for Low-Cost Cardiac MRI
- Mohammad Shafiqul Islam: Wearable Sensor System for Precision Mental Health
- Sandra Lara Galindo: Toward Acid-Tolerant GI Sensors for Serotonin and Dopamine sensing
- June Shao: An Ingestible Pill for Closed Loop Simulation of the Enteric Nervous System
- PhD Students
- Ruveyda Menevse: Accelerated Generative Multi-Agent Q - Learning for Wireless Networks
- Chee-An Yu: G-AMC: A Green Automatic Modulation Classification Method
- Nomaan Kherani: ModShift: Model Privacy via Designed Shifts
- Seyedarmin Azizi: Top-H Decoding: Adapting the Creativity and Coherence with Bounded Entropy in Text Generation
- Madhavi Rajiv: Analysis of Usage of Cooperative Jamming for Securing Uplink CDMA
- Lei Lyu: Cramer-Rao Bounds on Sparse/Diffuse Channel Estimation
- Sambit Mishra: Error Analysis with Optimal Receiver and Multi-level ASK for RIS-Assisted Noncoherent Wireless System
- Bassel Abou Ali Modad: Point Cloud-Based Accelerated Ray Tracing for Digital Twin Applications in 5G Networks and Beyond
- Masters Students
- Tanay Agrawal: Embedded Pilot Code-Aided Delay-Doppler Domain Channel Estimation
- PhD Students
- Kamiar Asgari: TBD
- Narjes Nourzad: DR. WELL: Dynamic Reasoning and Learning with Symbolic World Model for Embodied LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration
- Karkala Shashank Hegde: TBD
- Hardhik Mohanty: Decision-Aware Deep Probabilistic State Space Model for Hedging Quanto Perpetual Swap
- Nikunij Gupta: Deep Meta Coordination Graphs for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Ludwika Twardecka: TIGER-MARL: Enhancing MARL with Temporal Information through Graph Representations
- PhD Students
- Zixu Wang: Real-time signal processing enabled by fused networks on a memristor-based system on a chip
- Hsiang-Chun Cheng: An Analog Inverse-Matrix-Vector Multiplication Accelerator with Tunable Crossbar Feedback Network and Decoupled Input Injection in 65nm CMOS
- Himaddri Roy: A Probabilistic Multi-Chip Parallel Solver Architecture for Large-Scale SAT Problems
- Farshad Serat Nahaei: Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) based telescope’s front-end for future space applications
- Mirbehrad Mousavi: Universal Function Approximation Using Oscillatory Neural Networks
- Sreetama Sarkar: TBD
- Asal Mehradfar: FALCON: An ML Framework for Fully Automated Layout-Constrained Analog Circuit Design
- Mostafa Toubar: Dual Mode 16/20 GSPS Hybrid/Time Domain ADC
- Ting-Hao Hsu: Accelerating Multiple Patterning Lithography Layout Decomposition with a Stochastic Analog Boolean Satisfiability Solver
- Huixuan Yin: An Analog Neural Network Processor via Stochastic Operation
- Maysara Hamada: A Robust Analog MAC Unit for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
- Khaled Hassan: Design of Low Phase Noise PLL
- Michella Rustom: Magnetic Induction-Based Localization: From Smart Pills to Motion Tracking
- Vinay Chenna: Inverse Synthesis of Nonintuitive Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
- Juan Estevez-de la Riva: Oscillatory Computing: Analog Circuit Implementation
- Soumya Mahapatra: A mm-Wave Digital Transmitter Using Multiphase Subharmonic Switching PA
- Mayank Palaria: An Analog SAT Solver for solving Hard 3-SAT problems
- Atiyeh Abbasi Jalal: TBD
- PhD Students
- Anirudh Lanka: Continuous measurement-based holonomic quantum computation
- Juan Garcia Nila: Markovian and non-Markovian master equations versus an exactly solvable model of a qubit in a cavity
- Chun-Tse Li: Quantum Algorithm for Low Energy Effective Hamiltonian and Quasi-Degenerate Eigenvalue Problem
- Onkar Apte: Engineering continuous measurements for measurement-based holonomic quantum computation
- PhD Students
- Akash Roy: Linear Self-Focusing Acoustic Transducer and its Applications
- Anik Sengupta: Compact wearable stethoscope for wheezing detection using Resonant Microphone Array
- Nishat Tasnim Hiramony: Heterogeneous Integration of Memristors on a Single 2 mm x 2.5 mm CMOS Chip
- Iliya Larimojarad: Contact Engineered BEOL FETs Using LT-TLP Single-Crystal Compound Growth on Amorphous Substrates
- Finn Burns: Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization for Rapid and Autonomous Semiconductor Process Development
- Anika Tabassum: Priyoti: Air-stable High Gain Electron Beam Amplifier Enabled by Diamond Surface Engineering
- Juan Sanchez Vazquez: Ultrafast Mie-type Resonance Enhanced Photoemission from Gated Silicon Field Emitter Arrays
- Zezhi Wu: BEOL-Compatible On-site Integration of III-V Transistors
- PhD Students
- Ibukunoluwa Soyebo: Optimizing Inference on On-device Language Models for Stress Prediction
- Kae Sawada: TBD
- Jai Shah: Strategically Placing Edge Nodes Leads to Tolerable Delay in Low-cost Smart Cities
- PhD Students
- Jacob Fein-Ashely: Mixture of Thoughts: Learning to Aggregate What Experts Think, Not Just What They Say
- Zhihan Xu: Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning with Homomorphic Encryption on FPGAs
- Tamoghna Sarkar: TBD
- Chaoyi Jiang: LEAF: Lightweight, Efficient, Adaptive and Flexible Embedding for Large-Scale Recommendation Models
- Sachini Wickramasinghe: Model-Hardware Co-design for Robust and Efficient SAR ATR on FPGAs
- Anvitha Ramachandran: Dynamic Image Graph Construction Accelerating Image Graph Construction on FPGAs for Vision GNNs
- Dhruv Parikh: TBD
- Rakshith Jayanth: HARMONY - Adaptive Resource Mapping and Orchestration for Mixture of Agents Inference on Edge Heterogeneous Architectures
- Sampad Mohanty: SATORIS-N: Subspace Aware Nuclear Norm Imputation for Traffic data
- Hossein Entezari Zarch: DEL: Context-Aware Dynamic Exit Layer for Efficient Self-Speculative Decoding
- Tamoghna Sarkar: LOKI: Load-aware Outer-layer for Kafka Infrastructure
- Neelesh Gupta: Universal Pipeline Stalls in Long-Context Causal Inference on NPUs
- Gangda Deng: LocAgent: Graph-Guided LLM Agents for Code Localization
- Yuxin Yang: TBD
- PhD Students
- Majid Ghasemi Nazarlu: Gaussian Beam Dynamics in Periodically Modulated Parabolic Waveguides
- Sushmit Hossain: Inverse Design of Manufacturable Optical Metasurface for Full-color Reflective Displays
- Hediyeh Mohammadi Dinani: Universal Routing of Light via Optical Thermodynamics
- Masayuki Okano: Solid-State Swept Source Lidar: Coherent LiDAR with Silicon-Photonic Optical-Phased-Array Beam Steering
- Tien Hsing Wang: TBD
- PhD Students
- Jintang Xue: Descrip3D: Enhancing Large Language Model-based 3D Scene Understanding with Object-Level Text Descriptions
- Georgios Chochlakis: Humans Hallucinate Too: LMs Identify and Correct Subjective Annotation Errors with Label-in-a-Haystack Prompts
- Jihwan Lee: Articulatory feature prediction from surface EMG signals during speech production
- Ecem Bozkurt: Robust Classification under Noisy Labels: A Geometry-Aware Reliability Framework for Foundation Models
- Jeongmin Chae: Quasi Polynomial and Interpolative Models for Tensor Approximation
- Kevin Huang: On the Relationship between Accent Strength and Articulatory Features
- Chen Peng: Learning to Intervene: Optimized Soft Intervention Selection for Causal Discovery
- Berk Tinaz: Emergence and Evolution of Interpretable Concepts in Diffusion Models
- Efthymios Tsaprazlis: VoxGuard: Evaluating User and Attribute Privacy in Speech via Membership Inference Attacks
- Aditya Kommineni: Can Multimodal Foundation Models Help Analyze Child-Inclusive Autism Diagnostic Videos?
- Thanathai Lertpetchpun: Developing a High-performance Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions Challenge for Emotional Attribute Prediction
- Zeyu Liu: LAWCAT: Efficient Distillation from Quadratic to Linear Attention with Convolution across Tokens for Long Context Modeling
- Darukeesan Pakiyarajah: Joint Optimization of Primary and Secondary Transforms for Video Coding
- Shashank Nelamangala Sridhara: Region-Adaptive Learned Hierarchical Encoding for 3D Gaussian Splatting Data.
- Kleanthis Avramidis: Scaling Representation Learning from Ubiquitous ECG with State-Space Models
- Jiaxin Yang: GUSL: A Novel and Efficient Machine Learning Model for Medical Image Segmentation
- Parastoo Azizeddin: Fusing the Brain’s Multimodal Signals to Reveal How Behavior Emerges
- Prakash Kumar: Low-latency real-time 3D MRI for guiding cardiovascular interventions
- Woojae Jeong: Time-Resolved EEG Decoding of Semantic Processing Reveals Altered Neural Dynamics in Depression and Suicidality
- Anfeng Xu: Large Language Models based ASR Error Correction for Child Conversations
- Marcus Ma: Large Language Models Do Multi-Label Classification Differently
- Xuan Shi: 75-Speaker Annot-16: A benchmark dataset for speech articulatory rt-MRI annotation with articulator contours and phonetic alignment
- Emily Zhou: Self-Supervised Hierarchical Feature Learning with Wearable Data
- Jay Park: Interpretable Modeling of Articulatory Temporal Dynamics from real-time MRI for Phoneme Recognition
- Haoran Hong: Motion Estimation and Compensation for Point Cloud Attribute Compression
- Samuel Fernandez: Fast DCT+: Fast Transforms for Rank-One Updates of the Path Graph
- Hong Nguyen: MOOSE: Pay Attention to Temporal Dynamics for Video Understanding via Optical Flows
- Mohammad Shahab: Hyperphantasia: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Mental Visualization Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs
- Sarina Kapai: Real-Time Flow Imaging with 0.55T MRI
- Nick Mehlman: Scaling and Distilling Transformer Models for sEMG
- Mahtab Movahhedrad: TBD
- Abdulla Alshabanah: On Using Arabic Language Dialects in Recommendation Systems
- Kaitlin Zareno: TBD
- Wenhui Cui: Generalizable Representation Learning for fMRI-based Neurological Disorder Identification
- Hong-En Chen: FIG: Feed-Forward Image Generation with Statistical Modeling
- Sampad Mohanty: SATORIS-N: Spectral Analysis based Traffic Observation Recovery via Informed Subspace and Nuclear-norm minimization
- Chin-Cheng Chan: Rethinking Model-Based Non-Cartesian Fourier Imaging: A New k-Space Model
- Daniel Yang: An Information-theoretic Perspective on Multimodal Necessity
- Masters Students
- Sungmin Kang: GEM: A Scale-Aware and Distribution-Sensitive Sparse Fine-Tuning Framework for Effective Downstream Adaptation
- Jerry Wu: Granular loco-manipulation: Repositioning rocks through strategic sand avalanche
- Ana Sanson Leon: Comprehensive Assessment of Nonuniform Image Quality: Replication and Application to Imaging Near Metal at 0.55T
- Leire Lizarralde: Graph Signal Processing Based Audio Zero-Watermarking Under TSM Attacks
- Jincheng Wu: Decoding Sensory Stimuli from Functional Ultrasound Brain Signals Using Neural Networks
- Michael Qi: Fast Dequantization for LLM Inference: Lightweight Approach
- Finn Burns: TBD
- Hansini Ramachandran: Firmware Development, Testing, and PCB Design of Wireless Electrodermal Activity Sensing Circuit
- Rei Shuen Ng: Scalable NbTiN Based Fast Phase Superconducting Logic
- Kenta Lin: TBD
- Peter Wang: Toward 1M-Context Genomic Inference on Memory-Constrained FPGAs
- Zitong Huang: TBD
