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Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos with 2007 IIT Kharagpur Visiting Scholars
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10 students
For outstanding undergraduate engineering students from IIT-Kharagpur, who will begin their senior year in Fall 2009.
May 18 - July 17, 2009 (dates approximate)
Compensation: $3,000 TOTAL stipend for living expenses. Airfare not included.
If you are interested in participating, contact:
Prof.S.K.Som, Dean (Undergraduate Studies), IIT-Kharagpur
deanac@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
Testimonials from last year's participants.
Summer Housing Options
>> Trojan Housing Services: On-Campus
(Summer Housing info, dates and deadlines will be up in a few months)
As Visiting Scholars you will have access to Trojan Housing and many other USC services.
http://housing.usc.edu/
>> Off Campus Options
http://www.housing4students.com/colleges/usc/index.html
http://usg.usc.edu/senatehousing.html
http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/OIS/NewStud/housing/hunting.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uschousing/
Sample Projects - Summer 2008
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Professor
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Urbashi Mitra, Professor
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Department
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Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
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Website
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Description
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My research group is investigating joint communication and sensing solutions for sensor networks. The effect of wireless channel uncertainty on communication and sensing is explored. Application areas include: cognitive radios, underwater acoustic communications, wireless cellular radio communications, and ultrawideband communications. Opportunities to develop algorithms and software for an acoustic-over-the-air testbed exist.
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Sushil Subramanian |
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Prerequisites
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Matlab/(C++ for acoustic lab) undergraduate probability (communications,signal processing desirable)
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Professor
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Kristina Lerman, Research Assistant Professor
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Department
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Information Sciences Insitute, CS
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Website
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Description
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Studying social networking and social media sites, specifically, how data contributed by many different users can be used to solve a variety of information processing problems. For example, the social networks users create on social media sites can be used to information recommendation, personalization. The tags that users annotate content with, can be used for knowledge discovery.
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Pramit Kumar Bhuyan |
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Prerequisites
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Familiarity with scripting technologies (ruby, php) and databases.
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Professor
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Paul Ronney, Professor
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Department
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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Website
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htto://ronney.usc.edu
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Description
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Projects including microscale combustion and power generation; proton exchange membrane, solid oxide and microbial fuel cells; and transient plasma ignition for internal combustion engines.
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Pankaj Ranjan |
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Prerequisites
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Machining, Labview programing, wet chemistry
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rofessor
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Jean-Pierre Bardet, Professor and Chair
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Department
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Website
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Description
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(1) Finite element modeling of shear bands and collapse mechanism in soils;
(2) Modeling of soil liquefaction during earthquakes;
(3) Modeling of resilience and sustainability of transportation systems. This includes work in earthquake risk assessment and GIS modeling;
(4) Modeling of resilience and sustainability of electric power systems. This includes work in earthquake risk assessment and GIS modeling.
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Mayank Mishra |
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