Every summer for four years, ten outstanding undergraduates from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur have come to the

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Viterbi School of Engineering for intensive individual research with top USC faculty.

This year an outstanding group of faculty worked with the students on research, including Adam Fincham (AME), Noah Malmstadt (CMS), Hossein Hashemi (EE), Urbashi Mitra (EE), Jay Kuo (EE), Shri Narayanan (EE,CS), Milind Tambe (CS), Maged Dessouky (ISE), Paul Ronney (AME), and Priya Vashishta, Sr. (CMS).

Associate Deans Raghu Raghavendra, and Margery Berti also work with the program, which is administered by Doctoral Programs Coordinator Tracy Charles. Vinod Gupta, an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus who founded InfoUSA, funds the program.

Seated, front: (left to right) Sagar Chakraborty, “Increasing Liposome Stability with Hydrogel Cores for Detergent-Assisted Protein Insertion”; Sunav Choudhary, “ML Estimation of Channel Characteristics with Application to Cognitive Radio.”; Kunal Datta, ”Non linear Transient Response and Phase Noise Analysis of Regenerative Frequency Dividers with Fractional Synchronous Outputs"; Rahul Gupta, “Speaker Segmentation and Interruption Detection in Conversation Using Multimodal Cues”; Saroj Kumar, “Stability of Flames in Heat Recirculating Burners”   Standing, back: Associate Dean Margery Berti;  Rahul Saxena, “MSNE and SSE Analysis in Security Games.”; Pankaj Rajak, “1. Study of Argon System Using Molecular Dynamics and Its Statistical Property Determination  and  ”2. Determination of DNA Sequence Using Molecular Dynamics”; J. Dhikshith Reddy, “Capacitated Facility Location Under Uncertain Demand and Supply”; Priyesh Srivastava, “Generation of Breaking Waves for Surfing in Laboratory”; R. Vignesh, “Faster Non-Local Means Algorithm with Early Termination Scheme”; Doctoral Programs Coordinator Tracy Charles.