Two USC Viterbi PhD Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships
The team is focused on the emerging and important field of federated learning
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Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Two Beams Are Better Than One
Meet the optical “it couple” helping to speed up and secure wireless communications
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Stopping Deepfake Voices
USC Viterbi researchers develop solutions for more secure and trusted voice recognition
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Is it A Horror Film or a Rom-Com? AI Can Predict Based Solely on Music.
USC Viterbi Professor Shrikanth Narayanan and his research group examined the role of music in film through a computational lens to determine how it affects the audience’s perception of genre
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Viterbi Alumna to Lead Society of Women Engineers
After more than a decade as an active and committed member of SWE, Rachel Morford was recently elected president of the prominent global organization.
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Learning From Lies to Spread the Truth
USC Viterbi researchers use new language analysis tools to combat misinformation
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Undergraduate Researchers Impress Viterbi Community With CURVE Symposium Posters
Over 100 USC Viterbi undergraduates present their year-long research projects virtually at the 2021 Viterbi Research Symposium
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USC+Amazon Center Announces its Selected Projects for 2021-2022
The new center will support five research initiatives from across USC Viterbi.
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Ten USC Viterbi Students Honored with Aerospace Fellowship
A collaboration between the USC WiSE program and the Aerospace Corporation, this prestigious fellowship offers students the opportunity to gain real-life industry experience and develop their skills
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Latest Tests on 6G Return Surprising Results
The research may help lead to haptic internet, mobile edge computing, and holographic communication
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Two USC Viterbi Faculty Win Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards
Rehan Kapadia and Qiming Wang are two of only 38 recipients nationwide.
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What We Know About Water May Have Just Changed Dramatically
Research from USC Viterbi and USC Dornsife points to a potentially strong impact from water purification to drug manufacturing.
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Commencement 2021: Engineering Grads Take Center Stage at L.A. Coliseum For First Time in 71 Years
In a return to in-person graduation, the Class of 2020 and 2021 celebrate “passage to a post-COVID new world”
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Omid Sani: 2021 USC Viterbi Best Dissertation Winner
“Looking for a needle in a haystack – in the middle of a tornado.” Sani’s quest to decipher emotions and the brain.
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Cami Amein: Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduating Student Q&A
After interning at R&D firm ARiA in Seattle, Cami will be coming back to USC Viterbi to finish a progressive degree program and earn her master’s.
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Five USC Viterbi Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
Research spans from self driving cars, virtual touch, AI for good, teaching machines commonsense and electromagnetic device design.
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Riding the Quantum Limit
USC ISI’s QLIlab is using quantum physics to help usher in a new level of communications security
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The Return of the Viterbi Awards
After last year’s postponement because of COVID-19, the 42nd annual event celebrated honorees General (retired) Ellen Pawlikowski, alumnus Juan Perez of UPS and Geena Davis.
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Maryam Shanechi to Lead Brain Research Supported by New NIH Award
The $3 million grant will help develop new neurotechnology to treat neurological and mental disorders
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Virus Minority Report
USC Viterbi researchers show how we might one day develop vaccines for viruses that haven’t even evolved yet
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Engineering the Flow of Light
USC Viterbi researchers’ device shapes light in new and exciting ways
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Computing Machinery Faces an Urgent Scarcity
USC Viterbi professor leads panel at international conferences for computer scientists and engineers
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A New Realm of Personalized Medicine with Brain Stimulation
Researchers’ “skeleton key” can unlock a brain.
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USC and Amazon Establish Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning
Center to support novel approaches to trust-centric machine learning and AI innovation
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Researchers Discover Hidden Brain Pattern
The discovery has great implications for treating paralyzed, Parkinson’s patients.
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The Four-Legged Robot That Can Crawl, Crouch, Clean and Fight COVID
A team of USC master’s students creates a disinfection robot to use on COVID-19 prevention.
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Meet CybOrg: USC’s Premier Cybersecurity Club
USC Viterbi student club gives students confidence, networking opportunities, mentors and even job connections.
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Ming Hsieh Recipient of Inaugural IEEE-HKN Madni Award
The USC Trustee and Namesake of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Was Honored for Several Contributions
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Three USC Viterbi Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Professors Keith Chugg, Jay Kuo and Gerald Loeb join this year’s list of 175 distinguished academic inventors
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USC Researchers Explore Improving Measurement Tools for Quantum Physics
The more sensitive measurement tools are, the more information physicists can extract from quantum particles, such as photons.
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New Masters-Level Quantum Computing Degree
Program will draw on decades of quantum computing expertise
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Computer Vision Predicts Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
New Tool Offers Means to Phenotype Patients
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AI Tool May Predict Movies’ Future Ratings
USC Viterbi researchers are using AI as a tool identify violent, substance-abuse and sexual content in movie scripts before a single scene is shot
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Researchers Isolate and Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
New machine learning algorithm could discover novel neural patterns and enhance brain-machine interfaces
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How To Prevent A 3-Ton Laundry Robot That Runs Up Your Energy Bill
Professor Joshua Yang creates novel devices for brain-like computers using the least amount of energy and physical space possible
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 6: Predictions on COVID-19 to the C.D.C.
USC Viterbi data scientists helping decision-makers see beyond the fog of data to provide better pandemic forecasts and save lives
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 5: Estimation of Risk
Bhaskar Krishnamachari shares how to visualize COVID risk over time for different communities using real data from L.A. County to illustrate the approach.
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Maryam Shanechi Receives Prestigious New Innovator NIH Grant
One of Only 53 in the U.S. to receive such an award, she will use the $2.4M grant for a better understanding of the brain
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Is Neuromorphic Computing the Future of AI and Understanding the Brain?
Alice Parker, co-author of Women in Microelectronics (2020), answers questions about her journey as an “unconventional” engineer incorporating neuroscience in her work.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Lay New Groundwork For Designing Biological Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Findings Published In Scientific Reports Employs New Methods And Tools For Decoding How Cognition, Creativity And Even Disease Evolve In The Brain
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A Sustainable Hackathon
The 4th annual Sustain-A-Thon saw 57 students propose solutions for making the planet more livable and sustainable.
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USC Viterbi Offers Two New Short Courses: “Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” and “Sustainable Energy”
Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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How To Make AI Trustworthy
New tool might aid the adoption of technologies such as autonomous vehicles
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“Escape Velocity” Podcast Series Explores Race, Academia and STEM
New USC Viterbi series captures the stories of Black faculty, students and academic leaders.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Win 1st Place, Develop COVID-19 Risk Score for Los Angeles
Recent data science challenge, hosted by the city, identifies a new, color-coded metric for individual risk.
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A Novel Approach Produces a Completely New Kind of Dynamic Light Structure
USC Viterbi Innovation May Change Our Understanding of How Light Propagates.
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Two USC Viterbi Students Selected to Participate in 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Qinyi Luo and Youwei Zhuo Join 224 Other Students From Across the Globe
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USC Viterbi Alumnus Donates 33,000 Masks
Qihong Wang, B.S. EE ’19, donated essential masks to USC Viterbi researchers, allowing them to continue pursuing their work during the pandemic.
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What’s Next in Pandemic Forecasting?
USC Viterbi Researchers Answer Questions About Their Unique Modeling Tool and Share Advice for Future Forecasters.
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A Lifeline For Students During The Pandemic
Over 100 students have been aided by USC Viterbi’s Emergency Relief Fund; Ming Hsieh, alumnus and university trustee, offers an additional $50K match to donors
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Novel Technology Extends Battery Life, Increases Upload Speed, and Reduces Data Corruption
Memory device, developed by USC Viterbi researchers, shows record performance
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Honoring The Memory of Grant Imahara
A close friend of the late Grant Imahara, ’93, who cohosted the Discovery Channel’s popular science show “MythBusters,” wants to raise money to create The Grant Imahara Memorial Study Lounge.
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Higher Concentration of Metal in Moon’s Craters Provides New Insights to its Origin
New observations could challenge previous theories of how the Moon was formed
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New Math Model Predicts Real-World Systems
New USC Viterbi research models complex, real-world outcomes, including coronavirus and Alzheimer’s disease
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Beating A Pandemic To The Punch
USC Viterbi researchers are helping us understand what COVID-19 might do next.
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The 2020 Undergraduate Student Awards
Motivated to engineer a better world for all humanity, USC Viterbi celebrates graduates who have pursued academic excellence and impacted their communities.
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Folding the V: An Integrated Approach to Safe AI
Two Electrical and Computer Engineers Win ONR Grant on Science of AI to Bring Systems and AI Closer Together
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Fooling Deepfake Detectors
Electrical and Computer Engineering Masters Students Expose A Glaring Vulnerability
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Kick Drums and Glucose Sensors
How USC Viterbi’s interdisciplinary research helped get this beatboxer an engineering degree.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Win $2 Million DARPA Grant
Three Electrical and Computer Engineers Will Address the Challenge of Training A.I.
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My Belt Listens to My Watch, Glasses and Necklace: What’s Next in Wearable Technology
USC Viterbi researchers develop new prototype to better recognize human activity
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USC Viterbi Listed Again Among the Nation’s Top 10 Engineering Graduate Programs
Annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report also keep USC Viterbi among the top five private engineering schools
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Constantine Sideris Awarded Air Force Young Investigator Grant
USC Viterbi assistant professor receives recognition for his work to improve photonic integrated circuits
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Miniaturizing Optical Gyroscopes
USC Viterbi Researcher Makes An Important Advancement in Navigation and Automation
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New Study Finds AI as Viable Tool to Detect Changes in Patients’ Mental Health
Software detects changes in clinical states in voice data for patients with bipolar, schizophrenia and depressive disorders as accurately as attending doctors
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Speeding Up A.I.
USC Viterbi Researchers Win NSF Grant to Tackle the Challenge of Scalable Parallelism.
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In A Season Of Giving, This Student Start-up Is Transforming The Way We Give
Duet is the world’s first student-built micro-philanthropy platform designed to connect donors with refugees and local stores in a more personalized and dignified way
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Molecular Vibrations Lead to High Performance Laser
Breakthrough method has implications for enhanced performance of lasers for communications, diagnostics and defense.
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MEPC at 10
The latest edition of the 10-year-old Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition promises to transform high-tech ideas into viable startups.
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Transfer Learning Research Finds a New Home at USC Viterbi
New DARPA grant will help build a foundation in this important field.
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Why Music Makes Us Feel Emotions, According to AI
In a new paper, a team of USC computer scientists and psychologists teamed up to investigate how music affects how you act, feel and think.
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Groundbreaking Method Detects Defective Computer Chips
Technique also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect chip purpose
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USC Viterbi Lab Breaks Electron Emission Record
Professor Rehan Kapadia improved electron emission efficiency by ten to the power of five. How did he do it?
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Mahta Moghaddam and Behrokh Khoshnevis inducted into to NAE on October 6, 2019
Moghaddam was elected for development of physics-based computational algorithms; Khoshnevis was elected for innovations in manufacturing and construction.
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Is This the Future of Mental Health?
Maryam Shanechi, recently named to Science News Magazine’s Top 10 Scientists to Watch, answers questions about her revolutionary brain-machine interfaces.
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Talking to Robots…Under the Sea
A team of USC Viterbi undergraduates that is developing underwater wireless communication technology will represent the U.S. at the Global Grand Challenges Summit student competition finals
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AI Predicts Musical Genre by Identifying Surprising Patterns in Hit Songs
Record-breaking single “Old Town Road” is a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n roll, according to an artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by a USC computer science student
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A New Tool for Data Scientists and Biologists and More
Computational tool by USC Viterbi researchers solves the “community detection” problem
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USC Viterbi Announces its 2019 NSF CAREER Award Winners
USC Viterbi Professors Pierluigi Nuzzo, Kelly Sanders and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi receive highly competitive National Science Foundation awards for their leadership and novel research.
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The End of an Era
A blended family of eight, six of whom attended USC, bids farewell to the school as the youngest graduates
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Raising A.I.
Alice Parker’s Neuromorphic Circuits Mimic Neurons to Learn and Adapt.
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From Viruses to Social Bots, Researchers Unearth the Structure of Attacked Networks
A new statistical machine learning framework gleans the invisible and unobservable structure of any attacked network
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Death of the Middleman? USC Researchers Imagine a Cheaper, Fairer Marketplace For Digital Goods
Beyond improving e-commerce, USC Viterbi’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari sees a blockchain-driven future where cars, homes and appliances can buy and sell digital information.
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Persevering to Excellence
Yilda Irizarry-Valle, a USC Viterbi alumna, overcomes challenges to receive prestigious GEM Young Alumnae Leadership Award
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Excellence In Engineering
At the 41st Viterbi Awards, NAE President Dan Mote Jr., alumna and Northrop Grumman VP Linnie Haynesworth, and SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell were honored.
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Building A Better Blockchain
A company headed by a USC Viterbi alumnus has partnered with the school to advance this cutting-edge technology.
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New Evidence of Deep Groundwater on Mars
Researchers Suggests that Deep Groundwater can generate surface streams on Mars
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Violence in Movies
The film industry will soon be able to better predict MPAA ratings for movies, thanks to a new artificial intelligence tool.
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Meeting Held at USC Viterbi on International MURI and BARI Initiatives Led by Maryam Shanechi
60 scientists from 12 universities and government labs came together to hear about a MURI initiative on brain-computer interfaces and to kick-off a new BARI initiative on AI.
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A Robotic Leg, Born Without Prior Knowledge, Learns to Walk
New AI algorithms could allow robots to learn to move by themselves, imitating animals.
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Can Unit-E Bring Digital Currency Mainstream?
Salman Avestimehr trusts in the power of algorithms.
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In Search of the Most Human Algorithms
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi’s research ensures that AI and Automation serve the interests of humanity. Now he’s being recognized for his work – a lot.
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You Are Not Here By Accident
Linnie Haynesworth, USC Viterbi’s 2019 Mark A. Stevens Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, pens a letter to her younger Trojan self.
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Sparking Innovation
USC Viterbi alumnus Ken Richardson has written a new book about how America can once again become the world’s leader in tech.
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What Happens When 100 Million People Run Out of Water?
Essam Heggy Calls for More Water Education in the Scientific Community.
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Four USC Viterbi Faculty Members Selected As IEEE Fellows
USC Viterbi Faculty members from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering join the 2019 class of IEEE fellows.
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What can a snowflake teach us about how cancer spreads in the body?
Findings suggest novel approaches in drug therapy to treat cancer and other diseases
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9th Annual Electrical Engineering Research Festival
On November 9th, the Ming Hsieh Institute hosted the department’s biggest annual event – the Electrical Engineering Research Festival. 100 PhD students presented their research to Industry leaders from 27 companies.
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Han Wang Receives Coveted Army Research Office Young Investigator Award
The USC Viterbi assistant professor, who also just received the prestigious IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award, hopes to advance computer efficiency and proficiency.
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Seeing Through Rain and Fog
Materials developed by USC Viterbi Professor Jayakanth Ravichandran could allow autonomous vehicles to peer through the elements to improve safety.