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Professor: Gaurav Sukhatme, Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://robotics.usc.edu/~gaurav
Description: The Robotic Embedded Systems Lab (http://robotics.usc.edu/resl) is looking to host 1-2 interns over summer 2008 in the areas of mobile robotics, vision systems for robots, and robotic sensor networks.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Programming in one or more of C, C++. Java. Experience with Matlab.
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Professor: Mansour Rahimi
Department: Epstein Industrial and Systems engineering
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Description: Alternative fuel production and distribution systems (e.g., bio-based fuels, clean coal, and hydrogen) are novel and technologically complex. And, as such, assessing their environmental impacts requires extensive expertise not only on the technologies at hand, but also on using the appropriate choice or mix of environmental impact assessment techniques with the most recent and relevant data for assessing these technologies. We are trying to integrate currently availabel data for each alternative technology pathway and assess its life-cycle environmental impacts
Number of Students: 2
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Professor: Ellis Meng, Assistant Professor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Website: http://bme.usc.edu/research/BML/index.htm
Description: Summer students are welcome to participate in an interdisciplinary research program to develop a novel microfluidic bioMEMS (microelectromechanical systems) platform for delivering biochemicals and drugs to cells and tissue with emphasis on the development of neural interfaces. This research program spans the entire spectrum of engineering device development, ranging from design and modeling to packaging and testing of completed devices on living cells and tissues.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Lab experience
Comments: I have had wonderful experiences with both the VSoE and Tsinghua programs! Looking forward to having more students in my lab again this summer.
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Professor: Robert Neches, Division Director / Research Associate Professor
Department: Information Sciences Institute / Computer Science
Website: http://www.isi.edu/~rneches/
Description: In partnership with Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Information Sciences Institute\'s Distributed Scalable Systems Division is sponsoring a range of projects focused upon pediatric disaster informatics. With a focus upon the special needs of children, these topics all focus upon how information technology can facilitate real-world challenges of planning for, training on, and responding to events that threaten to overwhelm health care needs. Students participating in these efforts will be exposed to advanced technology in geospatial information management, simulation, planning, decision support, and computer-supported cooperative work.
Number of Students: 0
Prerequisites: Java programming skills highly desirable
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Professor: Urbashi Mitra, Professor
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
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Description: 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.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Matlab/(C++ for acoustic lab) undergraduate probability (communications,signal processing desirable)
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Professor: Tzung K. Hsiai, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, MD, Phd
Department: BME and Cardiovascular Medicine
Website: bme.usc.edu
Description: 1. Micro polymer-based intravascular senosrs
2. Hemodynamics and Stem Cell Dynamics
3. Real-time monitoring of zebra fish heart regeneration
4. Bioinformatics and Stem Cell Dynamics
5. Biomechanics and Mitochondrial Dynamics
Number of Students: 4
Prerequisites: NONE
Comments: Our lab hosted students from Georgia Tech (1) , UC Berkeley (2), UCSD (1) , and USC (3)for the Summer 2007 Program
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Professor: Jihie Kim, Research Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://ai.isi.edu/discourse, www.isi.edu/~jihie
Description: We are developing knowledge extraction tools for on-line asynchronous discussion. The tools are equally applicable to chat and blog data, generally. Based on our prior work on developing question answering tools for on-line student discussions, we will develop new approaches for extracting knowledge from student discussions. In particular, we will find patterns of student interactions that characterize (a) non-technical vs technical discussions, (b) discussions with confident conclusion vs. discussions with unclear issues, and (c) discussions that include urgent issues or questions.
Number of Students: 1
Prerequisites: strong programming skill
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Professor: Maja J Mataric, Professor and Sr. Associate Dean for Research
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja
Description: We are looking for students with programming experience who can contribute to a variety of robotics projects that feature human-robot interaction applied to challenging domains, including health (e.g., rehabilitation), training, and education. All projects involve team work.
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites: proficiency in programming
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Professor: Kristina Lerman, Research Assistant Professor
Department: Information Sciences Insitute, CS
Website: http://www.isi.edu/~lerman
Description: I am 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.
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites: I would prefer a student who is familiar with scripting technologies (ruby, php) and databases.
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Professor: Ramesh Govindan, Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://enl.usc.edu
Description: Our lab does experimental systems research in wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, and participatory sensing. For more detailed project descriptions, please see: http://enl.usc.edu
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites: Systems programming in C/C++
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Professor: Craig Knoblock, Research Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://www.isi.edu/~knoblock
Description: We are developing a map search engine, which will find and index maps for the world. We already have tools that can analyze a map to determine the extent (coverage) and scale of a map. I am looking for summer interns that will help develop machine learning tools to search for maps on the Web and automatically distinguish maps from other types of sources found online. Interns will participate in the research, programming, and paper writing.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Java
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Professor: Viktor Prasanna, Professor
Department: EE/CS
Website: ceng.usc.edu/~prasanna
Description: Semantic Web Technologies
Parallel Computing
Multicore Programming
Reconfigurable Computing
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites:
Comments: I am looking for students with CS or EE background. I had a student from Tsinghua last year, he was outstanding!
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Professor: Noah Malmstadt, Assistant professor
Department: Chemical engineering and materials science
Website: http://chems.usc.edu/faculty_staff/noah-malmstadt
Description: Microfluidic chemical analytical systems have the potential to facilitate the automatic, portable detection of environmental contaminants. We\'re developing novel flow-control technologies to greatly simplify microfluidic sample handling and reaction control. These technologies will allow for the creation of robust and easily operated microfluidic systems that can be deployed as early-warning sensors for environmental contaminants, chemical weapons, or biowarfare agents.
Number of Students: 1
Prerequisites: Lab Experience
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Professor: Brent Liu, Deputy Director
Department: Radiology
Website: www.ipilab.org
Description: Medical Imaging Informatics Projects including: Clinical Evaluation of CAD for Bone Age Assessment, CAD for Multiple Sclerosis, CAD for AIH, CAD/PACS Integration Toolkit, Radiation Therapy ePR system, Proton Therapy ePR system, IPILab Data Grid for Medical Image storage and distribution. Please refer to our website for more details.
Number of Students: 4
Prerequisites: C++, Java, Programming Experience
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Professor: Chongwu Zhou, Associate Professor
Department: Electrical Engineering
Website: http://nanolab.usc.edu/
Description: We look for highly motivated summer research interns to work in the exciting field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Students with background in electrical engineering, materials science, biomedical engineering, physics and chemistry are encouraged to apply. Projects include nanomaterial synthesis, nanoelectronics, cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment using nanomaterials.
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites: Lab experience
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Professor: Eduard Hovy, Deputy Division Director
Department: Computer Science / ISI
Website: www.isi.edu/~hovy
Description: Interesting information is sometimes easy to spot in text, but it can also be hidden, especially when you are faced with tens of thousands of documents. Can you build a system that learns to extract just the kind of information you are interested in, apply it to thousands of texts, and populate a database with the results? Work with the 250,000 emails from ENRON to find interesting events and people, or with tens of thousands of newspaper articles to find interesting events and chains of events, or to find expressions of certain opinions and attitudes, using state of the art techniques in natural language processing.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: java and/or C++; interest in Natural Language Processing
Comments: These interns will work jointly with other summer interns, funded by the Dept of Homeland Security, on a range of problems. Other supervising faculty will be Dr. Patrick Pantel.
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Professor: Adam Fincham, Research Associate Professor
Department: AME
Website: http://ae-www.usc.edu/personnel/fincham/index.shtm
Description: Development of a laboratory scale model for the artificial generation of surfing waves.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Lab experience, Solid Works
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Professor: Gerard Medioni, Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://iris.usc.edu/~medioni/
Description: Vision for a Personal Service Robot in an Intelligent Home:
develop and test algorithms
Face Recognition at a distance
test algorithms and compare results
3D Face Modeling from a stream of images
implement submodules and test
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites: C++ and Matlab knowledge, some Computer Vision background
Comments: I had one Tsinghua intern last year, excellent interaction.
I have received requests from 2-3 IIT Kharagpur students.
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Professor: Paul Ronney, Professor
Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Website: http://ronney.usc.edu
Description: Several projects are available including microscale combustion and power generation; proton exchange membrane, solid oxide and microbial fuel cells; and transient plasma ignition for internal combustion engines.
Number of Students: 3
Prerequisites: Machining, Labview programing, wet chemistry
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Professor: Sven Koenig, Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: idm-lab.org
Description: The project is on interfacing a computer to an electronic entertainment device (e.g juke box) and then to use it to control the device. I need an intern who can select an I/O card and actually build the interface as well as write control software in C or C++ under Linux.
Number of Students: 1
Prerequisites: Linux, C/C++, interfacing a computer with electronic gadgets
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Professor: Gerald Loeb, Professor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Website: http://bme.usc.edu/gloeb
Description: We develop neural prosthetic systems for paralyzed and amputated limbs. Projects range from injectable electronic stimulators and sensors to biomechanical models and simulations of control systems.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Practical skills with analog electronic circuits or software development
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Professor: Milind Tambe, Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://teamcore.usc.edu/tambe
Description: Our research is in multiagent systems, which is a branch of Artificial Intelligence. We are interested in interns in an exciting project, applying our research for security at the Los Angeles International Airport. This research has gained National and International news media attention, please see: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2007/media-report-computer.htm
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Programming in Java or C++
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Professor: Michael Zyda, Director
Department: USC GamePipe Laboratory
Website: http://gamepipe.usc.edu
Description: The mission of the USC GamePipe Laboratory is research, development and education on technologies and design for the future of interactive games. This summer we are looking for interns interested in helping us build a massively multiplayer online game.
Number of Students: 4
Prerequisites: C++ on the Windows environment
Comments: We had a great experience last summer with an intern!
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Professor: Alice C Parker, Professor
Department: Electrical Engineering
Website: http://ceng.usc.edu/%7Eparker/
Description: Vision for robotic vehicles and artificial brain studies - Assistance is needed in testing vision algorithms on video data. Assistance is needed in designing and simulating circuits that emulate brain neurons.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Matlab or SPICE or analog circuits
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Professor: Craig Knoblock, Research Professor
Department: Computer Science
Website: http://www.isi.edu/~knoblock
Description: We are developing a map search engine, which will find and index maps for the world. We already have tools that can analyze a map to determine the extent (coverage) and scale of a map. I am looking for summer interns that will help develop machine learning tools to search for maps on the Web and automatically distinguish maps from other types of sources found online. Interns will participate in the research, programming, and paper writing.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: Java
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Professor: Anupam Madhukar, Kenneth T. Norris Professor of Engineering
Department: Biomed., Chemical, Materials Sc., and Physics
Website: http://nanostructure.usc.edu
Description: Project 1: Synthesis of quantum dots and rods using colloidal solution chemistry.
Project 2: Labeling of live cells with flouresecent quantum dots for real-time imaging.
Project 3: Use of quantum dots in novel resonant energy transfer based solar cells.
Project 4: Syntheis of epitaxial self-assembled quantum dot structures for infrared detectors"
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: General lab experience
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Professor: Anupam Madhukar, Kenneth T. Norris Professor of Engineering
Department: Biomed., Chemical, Materials Sc., and Physics
Website: http://nanostructure.usc.edu
Description: Project 1: Synthesis of quantum dots and rods using colloidal solution chemistry.
Project 2: Labeling of live cells with flouresecent quantum dots for real-time imaging.
Project 3: Use of quantum dots in novel resonant energy transfer based solar cells.
Project 4: Syntheis of epitaxial self-assembled quantum dot structures for infrared detectors"
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites: General lab experience
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Professor: Murali Annavaram, Assistant Professor
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Website: http://ee.usc.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/
Description: "FPGA based emulation of 3D die stacked processors.
Develop new applications for Mobile phones using state of the art cell phones and JavaME."
Number of Students: 4
Prerequisites: Java, VHDL
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Professor: Yong Chen, Assistant Professor
Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering
Website: www-rcf.usc.edu/~yongchen
Description: Research opportunities on (1) developing new prototyping machine and process to convert 3D digital models into physical models; (2) new computer-aided design tools for layer manufacturing processes.
Number of Students: 1
Prerequisites: C/C++
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Professor: Jean-Pierre Bardet, Professor and Chair
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Website: www.usc.edu/cee
Description: (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.
Number of Students: 2
Prerequisites:
Comments: Interested students may contact Prof. J. P. Bardet directly at bardet@usc.edu
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Professor: Steven Nutt, Professor
Department: ChEMS
Website: http://chems.usc.edu/composites/website_main/index
Description: Processing science of low-pressure prepregs for non-autoclave processing, including experiments and computer simulations. Correlate effects of process parameters on resulting mechanical properties of composite laminates and nanocomposites.
Number of Students: 2
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Comments: Projects involve collaboration with graduate students and use of laboratory equipment.
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Professor: Amy Rechenmacher, Assistant Professor
Department: Civil Engineering
Website: http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/dept/
Description: We study problems of localized failure and flow in granular materials. We are using novel experimental imaging techniques to detect and track \force chain\" buildup and collapse associated with shear banding in sands. Ultimately we aim to answer questions such as why grain silos clog, what triggers landslides, and why earthquake faults start and stop propagating.
Number of Students: 1
Prerequisites: student have taken statics and mechanics of materials
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Professor: Konstantinos Psounis, Assistant Professor
Department: EE and (jointly) CS
Website: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~kpsounis/
Description: Routing and transport challenges in multi-hop wireless networks, including mesh, mobile ad-hoc, delay and distruption tollerant, and sensor networks. The work may combine protocol design, simulations, experiments, and simple analysis.
Number of Students: 2
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