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10th Annual USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Honored Guest and Keynote Speaker Mark Stevens, USC Stevens Center for Innovation
Talk Title: 10th Annual USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase
Abstract: The USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase is a USC student business competition promoting young entrepreneurs and their cutting-edge business ideas in all disciplines ranging from the arts and social sciences to engineering and medicine. During the daylong event, USC student teams present and pitch their startup ideas and prototypes to expert judges from the entrepreneur and investment communities as well as Trojan Family Weekend attendees to compete for thousands in USC-sponsored awards that can help to develop their ideas further. The most promising innovative student teams are selected as finalists to participate in an afternoon fast pitch round featuring 3-minute business pitches by each team to a panel of esteemed judges, and an awards ceremony for the winners.
This year's event will feature Honored Guest and Keynote Speaker Mark Stevens. Mr. Stevens is one of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists and benefactor to the USC Stevens Center for Innovation. All USC students, faculty, and staff are invited to join for Mr. Stevens' Keynote Speech at 12pm during the Showcase on Friday, October 7, 2016 on the lawn of the Allan Hancock Foundation Building (AHF).
All Trojan Family Weekend attendees (USC students, parents, faculty, staff) are welcome to attend this free event.
More information about the USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase can be found at: http://stevens.usc.edu/events/student-innovator-showcase. Questions can be directed to Peijean Tsai at peijeant@usc.edu.
Host: USC Stevens Center for Innovation
More Info: http://stevens.usc.edu/events/student-innovator-showcase
Location: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stevens.usc.edu/events/student-innovator-showcase
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AI Seminar-The Future is on Your Wrist: Challenges and Opportunities of Wearable Technologies
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Luca Foschini, Evidation Health
Talk Title: The Future is on Your Wrist: Challenges and Opportunities of Wearable Technologies
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: Wearable technologies have seen a tremendous development in recent years: step and calorie counters have long made their way to our phones and watches, and new consumer-grade sensors can now measure a breadth of physiological functions that until recently could only be found in the monitoring equipment of intensive care units. However, despite the undisputed short-term benefits due to the user increased awareness, quantifying the potential value of wearable technologies in improving longer-term health outcomes remains an open question. In this talk we will present evidence that activity tracking data contains a wealth of information that is predictive of metrics directly related to health outcomes, ranging from medication adherence to lifestyle. To this end, we will show how machine learning tools need to be adapted to take full advantage of densely sampled, multi-variate time series of tracker data. Finally, we will reflect on how the predictive power of wearable data can be harnessed to inform behavior change interventions, and how expertise in computer science, clinical medicine, and behavioral psychology will have to join forces to overcome obstacles in adoption, user engagement, and regulations.
Biography: As Co founder and Head of Data Science at Evidation Health, Luca Foschini PhD is responsible for data analytics, computing, research and development. Dr. Foschini has driven research collaborations with machine learning experts at NYU, behavioral economics departments at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School. Prior to this role, Dr. Foschini worked as R&D at Ask.com and was a visiting scholar at Google Research and ETH Zurich where he developed efficient algorithms for mining spatial data, partitioning large graphs, and detecting traffic anomalies in computer networks. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara focusing on traffic analysis in computer and road networks. He has published numerous papers in the broader area of computer science and he co-authored several patents in information clustering and behavior phenotyping. Dr. Foschini is an alumnus of the Sant'Anna School of Pisa, Italy
Host: Emilio Ferrara
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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Techniques for Analysis of Folding Development in the Cerebral Cortex
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rosita Shishegar, University of Melbourne
Talk Title: Techniques for Analysis of Folding Development in the Cerebral Cortex
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: Gyrification describes the series of events through which the immature cortex develops from a smooth surface to a folded sheet. While there is considerable speculation about the biological mechanisms that underpin the formation of gyri and sulci, little known about the events that directly lead to folding. In this talk, Rosita Shishegar will introduce the open problems in understanding cortical gyrification and provide an overview of a research program aimed at expanding knowledge in this area through the longitudinal study of brain development in the fetal sheep. In particular, she will focus on tools for morphometric analysis of the structural and diffusion-weighted MRI data, and present a new gyrification index derived from Laplace Beltrami eigenfunction level sets that combines the strengths of surface-based and curvature-based gyrification metrics.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - B18
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia White
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IEEE@USC Google Tech Talk
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join IEEE at USC for a talk from Brain Hui, a former USC EE PHD student and current Google software engineer to learn more about the recruitment process and what it feels like to work in Google!
Free food and Google Swag will be provided!
RSVP and share your resume with Google: http://goo.gl/GhGxYt
More Information: 10%2F7%2F16 - IEEE Tech Talk.pdf
Location: 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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[CANCELLED] Insider Recruiting Tips Workshop
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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IEEE@USC Google Tech Talk
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join IEEE at USC for a talk from Brain Hui, a former USC EE PHD student and current Google software engineer to learn more about the recruitment process and what it feels like to work in Google!
Free food and Google Swag will be provided!
RSVP and share your resume with Google: http://goo.gl/GhGxYt
More Information: 10%2F7%2F16 - IEEE Tech Talk.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Professor. Craig Stark, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, UC Irvine, titled "Using Neuroimaging to Understand How Memory Works".
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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Biomedical Engineering Speakers
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Host: Brent Liu, PhD
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series on Integrated Systems
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Sebastian Hoyos, Texas A&M University
Talk Title: Equalization Architectures for High Speed ADC-Based Serial I/O Receivers
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
More Information: MHI Seminar Series IS - Sebastian_Hoyos_Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jenny Lin
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Ming Hsieh Institute CommNetS seminar
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mauro Da Lio, University of Trento
Talk Title: From vehicle dynamics to human-robot interactions
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: This seminar will provide a panorama of the main ideas of my main research line. I will start with the original problem of assessing the maneuverability of unstable vehicles - such as motorcycles - which was solved by imagining that these vehicles were driven "optimally". I will then introduce the (not surprising) discovery that minimum time optimal control of motorcycles matches the way trained race drivers actually drive. I will then shift to the problem of modeling which optimality criterion holds for ordinary drivers, introducing some theories about optimality of human control (in particular minimum jerk).
I will show the use of Optimal Control to model ideal ordinary drivers and its application to produce "reference maneuvers" used as gold standard in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, showing, in particular, the application of these ideas in the PReVENT project. I will then touch the problem of modelling human driver behavior when multiple choices are possible, reviewing the Simulation Hypothesis of Cognition and its implication for the inference of intentions of drivers (a process that in natural cognition is called mirroring - from mirror neuron theory - and which can also be considered as a "mother nature" version of model-based state estimation). I will show, in particular, the application of this mechanism in the EU InteractIVe project. I will review the notions of subsumption and layered control architecture and, in particular, the role of action selection, and finally introduce the notion of artificial (co)driver agents showing the current status of such an agent for the EU AdaptIVe project. In the conclusions I will introduce the Dreamn4Cars project and the related idea of using dream-like mechanisms to train the sensory-motor architecture of an artificial driver for rare situations developed as variations of real world (near miss) events.
Biography: I am professor of mechanical systems with the University of Trento, Italy. My initial research activity was focused on modeling and simulation of mechanical multibody systems, and on methods for generating the equations of motions symbolically. In particular, I developed symbolic models for vehicle and spacecraft dynamics and - exploiting the availability of symbolic equations - I worked on model-based control, and in particular Optimal Control. This was initially used to study the maneuverability and handling of motorcycles (which are unstable vehicles that cannot be studied otherwise in open loop) and later extended to the modeling of "optimal" drivers. More recently my focus shifted to the modeling of human sensory-motor control, in particular drivers and motor impaired people. In this framework, optimal control motor primitives are part of layered control architectures that can reproduce (to some extent) complex cognition and action-selection processes of humans. According to recent theories this in turn enables several possibilities for human-robot interactions.
Prior of academic carrier I worked for an off-shore oil research company in underwater robotics (an EU EUREKA project). I have been involved in several EU framework programme 6 and 7 projects (PReVENT, SAFERIDER, interactIVe, VERITAS, adaptIVe, No-Tremor) in the domains of Intelligent Vehicles and Virtual Physiological Humans. I am currently the coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 Dreams4Cars Research and Innovation Action: a 4.3M Euro collaborative project in the Robotics domain which aims at increasing the cognition abilities of artificial driving agents by means of an offline simulation mechanism broadly inspired to the dream states.
Host: Prof. Petros Ioannou
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/~ashutosn/CommNetS2016/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/~ashutosn/CommNetS2016/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start
