2021 Presenter Information

Gourav Datta
Poster Title: Ultra Low-Latency Spiking Neural Networks - A Step towards Building a Low Power Brain
Advisor: Peter Beerel
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
gdatta@usc.edu
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Souvik Kundu
Poster Title: Analyzing the Confidentiality of Undistillable Teachers in Knowledge Distillation
Advisor: Peter Beerel
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
souvikku@usc.edu
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Pengmiao Zhang
Poster Title: Ultra Low-Latency Spiking Neural Networks - A Step towards Building a Low Power Brain
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: 
pengmiao@usc.edu
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Amirhossein Esmaili
Poster Title: SynergicLearning: Neural Network-Based Feature Extraction for Highly-Accurate Hyperdimensional Learning
Advisor: Massoud Pedram
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
esmailid@usc.edu
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Madhavi Rajiv
Poster Title: Secure Blind Communication using Rotation and Perturbation with BMOCZ
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
rajiv@usc.edu
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Mustafa Gursoy
Poster Title: Derivative-Aided Low Complexity Detection for Molecular Communications
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
mgursoy@usc.edu
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Runzhou Zhang
Poster Title: Atmospheric Turbulence Resilient Free-Space Optical Communications
Advisor: Alan Willner
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
runzhou@usc.edu

Thomas Choi
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Andreas Molisch
Expected Graduation: Summer 2022
choit@usc.edu
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Chen Peng
Poster Title: Interference-Constrained Scheduling of a Cognitive Multihop Underwater Acoustic Network
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
cpeng732@usc.edu

Panagiotis Kyriakis
Poster Title: Learning Hyperbolic Representations of Topological Features
Advisor: Paul Bogdan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
pkyriaki@usc.edu
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Nikhil Vijay Naik
Poster Title: Robustness Contracts for the Scalable Verification of Neural Network Enabled Cyber-Physical systems
Advisor: Pierluigi Nuzzo
Expected Graduation: Summer 2024
nikhilvn@usc.edu
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Dongsheng Ding
Poster Title: Provably efficient safe exploration via primal-dual policy optimization
Advisor: Mihailo Jovanovic
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
dongshed@usc.edu

Emily Reed
Poster Title: A scalable distributed dynamical systems approach to compute two important properties of large-scale networks
Advisor: Paul Bogdan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
emilyree@usc.edu
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Fernando Valladares Monteiro
Poster Title: Trade-Offs of Autonomous Vehicles Lane Changing Decisions in Congested Highways
Advisor: Petros Ioannou
Expected Graduation: Summer 2022
fvallada@usc.edu
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Arash Fayyazi
Poster Title: Hybrid computing fabric for High Throughput Neural network inference
Advisor: Massoud Pedram
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
fayyazi@usc.edu
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Qiaochu Zhang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
qiaochuz@usc.edu
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Ce Yang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
ceyang@usc.edu
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Mostafa Ayesh
Poster Title: Non-Uniform Sub-Sampling mmWave Receiver Featuring a Non-Uniform Discrete-Time FIR Filter
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: TBD
abouelka@usc.edu
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Rami Alzahrani
Poster Title: Dynamic Neural Encoding Modeling
Advisor: Alice Parker
Expected Graduation: Fall 2021
ralzahra@usc.edu

Zihan Yin
Poster Title: X-PIXEL
Advisor: Akhilesh Jaiswal
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026
zihanyin@usc.edu

Juzheng Liu
Poster Title: A 10GS/s 8b 25fJ/c-s 2850um2 Two-Step Time-domain ADC Using Delay-Tracking Pipelined-SAR TDC with 500fs Time Step in 14nm CMOS Technology
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
juzhengl@usc.edu
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Maysara Hamada
Poster Title: A Continuous-Time Pipeline ADC With a VCO-Based Nonuniform Sampling 2nd Stage
Advisor: Mike Chen
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
hamada@usc.edu
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Jun Tao
Poster Title: Machine Vision with Floating-gate Photo-field-effective Transistors for Color-mixed Image Recognition
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
juntao@usc.edu
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Hung-Yu Chen
Poster Title:Van der Waals engineering ferroelectric tunnel junction
Advisor: Han Wang
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
hungyuc@usc.edu
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Buyun Chen
Poster Title: Memristor-based linear and quadratic programs solver
Advisor: Wei Wu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
buyunche@usc.edu

Pooria Namyar
Poster Title: A Throughput-Centric View of the Performance of Datacenter Topologies
Advisor: Ramesh Govindan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
namyar@usc.edu
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Arvin Hekmati
Poster Title: Simulating COVID-19 Classroom Transmission On a University Campus
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
hekmati@usc.edu
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Joni Shaska
Poster Title: Decentralized Detection over Sensor Networks with State
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
shaska@usc.edu
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Yijun Liu
Poster Title: Brain Parcellation with Deepwalk Network Embedding
yijunl@usc.edu

Shiyu Li
Poster Title: Fundamental thickness bounds for wide-field-of-view metalenses
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
lishiyu@usc.edu
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Romil Audhkhasi
Poster Title: Microphotonics for tailored infrared emission
Advisor: Michelle Povinelli
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
raudhkha@usc.edu
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Alok Ghanekar
Poster Title: Violation of Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation with Space-time Modulated Grating
Advisor: Michelle Povinelli
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
aghaneka@usc.edu
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Ho-Chun Lin
Poster Title: Fast Scattering Matrix Computation for Complex Media and Metasurfaces
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
hochunli@usc.edu
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Yunxiang Wang
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Wei Wu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
yunxianw@usc.edu

Zeyu Wang
Poster Title: Multi-spectral Scattering Matrix Tomography
Advisor: Wade Hsu
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
wangzeyu@usc.edu

Regib Ahsan
Poster Title: Optically activated spiking silicon neurons
Advisor: Rehan Kapadia
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
ragibahs@usc.edu
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Digbalay Bose
Poster Title: Multimodal understanding of Advertisement Videos
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
dbose@usc.edu
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Rimita Lahiri
Poster Title: Analyzing short term dynamic speech features for understanding behavioral traits of children with autism spectrum disorder
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan 
Expected Graduation: Fall 2023
rlahiri@usc.edu
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Victor Ardulov
Poster Title: Causal Indicators for Assessing the Truthfulness of Child Speech in Forensic Interviews
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
ardulov@usc.edu
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Zohreh Azizi
Poster Title: Noise-aware texture-preserving low-light enhancement
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
zazizi@usc.edu
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Lucine Oganesian
Poster Title: Learning behaviorally relevant dynamics in neural population spiking activity
Advisor: Maryam Shanechi 
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
loganesi@usc.edu
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Pratyusha Das
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
daspraty@usc.edu
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Yijing Yang
Poster Title: Object Classification via Successive Subspace Learning with Hard Sample Selection and Attention Localization
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Summer 2022
yijingya@usc.edu

Sabyasachee Baruah
Poster Title: Representation of Professions in Entertainment Media
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
sbaruah@usc.edu
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Shashank Sridhara
Poster Title: Cylindrical coordinates for LiDAR point cloud compression
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
nelamang@usc.edu
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Raghuveer Peri
Poster Title: Improving fairness of speaker identity verification systems
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
rperi@usc.edu
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Yao Zhu
Poster Title: Detection of CNN-generated images with a low-cost explainable method
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
yaozhu@usc.edu

Talha Bozkus
Poster Title: Higher-Order Link Analysis for Solving Multiple-Access MDPs with Large State Spaces
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
bozkus@usc.edu

Hong-Shuo Chen
Poster Title: Geographic Fake Image Detection
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
hongshuo@usc.edu

Hassan Hamad
Poster Title: End-To-End Training of Convolutional Neural Networks using the Logarithmic Number Systems
Advisor: Keith Chugg
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
hhamad@usc.edu
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Min Zhang
Poster Title: GSIP: Green Semantic Segmentation of Large-Scale Indoor Point Clouds
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
zhan980@usc.edu
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Mohammadmahdi Sajedi
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
sajedi@usc.edu

Zhiruo Zhou
Poster Title: High Performance Light-Weight Object Tracker
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
zhiruozh@usc.edu

Yun Cheng Wang
Poster Title: Rule-Guided Knowledge Graph Completion -- A Binary Classification Approach
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
yunchenw@usc.edu
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Xiou Ge
Poster Title: Complex Space Entity Type Prediction
Advisor: Jay Kuo
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
xiouge@usc.edu

Jeongmin Chae
Poster Title: Distributed Online Learning with Multiple Kernels
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2025
chaej@usc.edu

Rahul Sharma
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
rahul.sharma@usc.edu

Sarath Shekkizhar
Poster Title: Revisiting nearest neighbors from a signal approximation perspective
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
shekkizh@usc.edu
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Yunsong Liu
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Justin Haldar
Expected Graduation: Summer 2022
yunsongl@usc.edu

Jianxiu Li
Poster Title: Atomic Norm Based Localization and Orientation Estimation for Millimeter-Wave MIMO OFDM Systems
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
jianxiul@usc.edu

Arnab Sanyal 
Poster Title: Neural Network Training with Approximate Logarithmic Computations
Advisor: Peter Beerel & Keith Chugg
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
arnabsan@usc.edu
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Yue Niu
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Salman Avestimehr
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
yueniu@usc.edu
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Yi-Chien Lin
Poster Title: A Framework for Generating High Throughput GNN Training Implementation on CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Platform
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Fall 2025
yichienl@usc.edu
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Mehrdad Kiamari
Poster Title: TBD
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari 
Expected Graduation: Fall 2022
kiamari@usc.edu
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Hongkuan Zhou
Poster Title: SeDyT: A General Framework for Multi-Step Event Forecasting via Sequence Modeling on Dynamic Entity Embeddings
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Spring 2023
hongkuaz@usc.edu

Qinyi Luo
Poster Title: High-Performance Heterogeneity-Aware Asynchronous Decentralized Training
Advisor: Xuehai Qian
Expected Graduation: Summer 2023
qinyiluo@usc.edu
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Ta-Yang Wang
Poster Title: Monte Carlo Tree Search for Task Mapping onto Heterogeneous Platforms
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
tayangwa@usc.edu

Bingyi Zhang
Poster Title: Efficient Neighbor-Sampling-based GNN Training on CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Platform
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
bingyizh@usc.edu
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Yuan Meng
Poster Title: A Hardware-Algorithm Co-Design for Accelerating Fractionally-Strided Convolution
myuan2009@gmail.com

Tian Ye
Poster Title: FPGA Acceleration of Number Theoretic Transform
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
tye69227@usc.edu

Sasindu Kangara
Poster Title: Programmable FPGA-based Memory Controller
Advisor: Viktor Prasanna
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
kangaram@usc.edu
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Fang Chen
Poster Title: Local Patch Network with Global Attention for Infrared Small Target Detection
fchen905@usc.edu

Neeti Agarwal
Poster Title: Hyperscale implementation for GPU design
Area of Research: VLSI
neetiaga@usc.edu

Ravi teja Lakkireddy
Poster Title: High-speed Robust Differential Sense Amplifier for Optical SRAMs featuring in-memory computing
Advisor: Akhilesh Jaiswal
Area of Research: VLSI
lakkired@usc.edu
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Qiwei Chen
Poster Title: TBD
Area of Research: Controls
qiweic@usc.edu