Yasser Khan

Biography

Yasser Khan is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and an Assistant Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 2022. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and KAUST, respectively. Dr. Khan completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018, and later conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Khan’s research focuses on additive manufacturing and hardware-enabled AI to develop next-generation wearables, implantables, and ingestibles for precision health and psychiatry. He has received several prestigious honors, including the 2024 Packard Fellowship, the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the 2025 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Technical Achievement Award, the 2025 USC Viterbi Junior Faculty Research Award, and the 2023 Google Research Scholar Award. Earlier in his career, he received the EECS Departmental Fellowship at UC Berkeley, the Discovery Scholarship and Graduate Fellowship at KAUST, and the Academic Excellence Scholarship at UT Dallas. His work has been published in Nature and Science family of journals, Cell Reports, Advanced Materials, PNAS, and other leading platforms, and has been featured by major outlets including BBC News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and NSF News.