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Finalist Competition - MHI Ph.D. Scholars

The Evaluation Committee selected 7 finalists out of MHI Ph.D. Scholar nominees submitted by faculty. These finalists will present a 12-minute talk about their research at the event. It is anticipated that five MHI Scholars will be selected from this pool, based on an evaluation of their talks by a faculty panel.


•Matthew Black: Behavioral Signal Processing: Case Studies in Education and Psychology Research

•Harsha Honnappa: Queues and Games: Large Population Analysis

•Chenxi Lin: Optical absorption enhancement in nano-textured silicon thin film for photovoltaics

•Osonde Osoba: Noise Benefits in Expectation-Maximization Algorithms

•Sunil K. Narang: Perfect reconstruction, critically sampled, two-channel wavelet filterbanks on graphs

•Srinivas Yerramalli: Enabling Underwater Acoustic Communications: From single links to an ocean wide network

•Bardia Zandian: A Cross-layer Framework for Wearout Monitoring

All Electrical Engineering students and faculty are invited. Refreshments will be served.

The Ph.D. Scholar Program is a continued venture of the Ming Hsieh Institute that aims to support senior Ph.D. students interested in pursuing an academic career. These finalists have been selected from nominations submitted by faculty - to learn more about the Scholar Program visit: http://mhi.usc.edu/call-for-scholar-nominees320805.htm

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Danielle Hamra