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Communications Hub: Writing and Speaking for PhD Students - Drop In HoursMon, Oct 09, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. Students!
Need help with academic and professional writing and speaking tasks? Viterbi faculty at the Hub provide one-on-one help with journal and conference articles, dissertations, fellowship applications, and career communications!
Drop by RTH 222A on MWF 10am-1pm or make an online appointment via email at eishub@usc.edu.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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CS Colloquium: Ali Babar (University of Adelaide) - Building ML Based Software Security Solutions: Data Wrangling Lessons and Recommendations
Mon, Oct 09, 2023 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia
Talk Title: Building ML Based Software Security Solutions: Data Wrangling Lessons and Recommendations
Abstract: Learning based approaches to ensuring software security are attracting significant interest. It is well known that AI and ML based approaches are heavily reliant on the quality of data garbage in, garbage out. Hence, Data Wrangling serves as an important, but expensive, phase of using AI and ML for software security. Like any AI and ML based effort, our R and D efforts for leveraging AI and ML for software security have encountered several significant challenges of Data Wrangling. Our pursuit of finding and devising reliable solutions to security data quality challenges has taught us that the expensiveness and error proneness of Data Wrangling activities can be a barrier to widespread industrial adoption of AI and ML based approaches to software security. We believe that it is important to engage the relevant stakeholders for developing and sharing knowledge and technologies aimed at improving software security data quality. To this end, we are not only systematically identifying and synthesizing the existing empirical literature on improving data quality, but also devising suitable solutions for easing the problems we experienced and observed during Data Wrangling. This talk will draw lessons and recommendations from our efforts of systematically reviewing the state of the art and developing solutions for improving data quality while building and using AI and ML based software security solutions such as SVP models.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: M. Ali Babar is a Professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia. He leads a theme on architecture and platform for security as service in Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC), a large initiative funded by the Australian government, industry, and research institutes. Professor Babar leads one of the largest projects on Software Security in the ANZEC region funded by the CSCRC. Software Security with Focus on Critical Infrastructure, SOCRATES, brings more than 75 researchers and practitioners from 10 organization for developing and evaluating novel knowledge and AI based platforms, methods, and tools for software security. Prof Babar established an interdisciplinary R and D centre called CREST, Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies, where he directs the research, development and education activities of more than 30 researchers and engineers in the areas of Software Systems Engineering, Security and Privacy, and Social Computing. Professor Babar obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the school of computer science and engineering of University of New South Wales, Australia. He also holds a M.Sc. degree in Computing Sciences from University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Host: Nenad Medvidovic
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100D
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Melissa Ochoa
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Trojan Talk with Epic - DEI Info Session
Mon, Oct 09, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Epic is excited to invite you to our upcoming employer information session, where students from diverse backgrounds can explore a wide array of exciting career opportunities within our company.
Epic is a healthcare software company headquartered in Madison, WI, with customers in all 50 states and even internationally. We design, build, and implement applications for everything from hospital scheduling to supporting medical specialties to hospital billing.
About 78 percent of the US population is cared for by Epic software! By attending this session, you will have the opportunity to gain insights into our inclusive workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our global community.
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Meeting Link: https://epicmeet.zoom.us/j/99254654989?pwd=K293QjZnTlQ1elEvd2FKdDRKcHBuUT09
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Location: Virtual Event
WebCast Link: https://epicmeet.zoom.us/j/99254654989?pwd=K293QjZnTlQ1elEvd2FKdDRKcHBuUT09
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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DEI: Women of AME Panel
Mon, Oct 09, 2023 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Inna Abramova, Eva Kanso, Neda Maghsoodi, Anita Penkova, Emma Singer, Alejandra Uranga, AME
Talk Title: Women of AME Panel
Abstract: By popular demand, the women of AME's Faculty are gathering to reflect on and discuss their professional journeys and the influential forces on their various career paths. Join us and partake in this exciting panel.
Please RSVP at the link below.
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://forms.gle/w42u3BK7GDoLcKxy5
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://forms.gle/w42u3BK7GDoLcKxy5
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CS Colloquium: Ralph Lange (Bosch) - From Dexterous Assembly to AMR Fleet Planning: Robotics Research at Bosch
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ralph Lange, Bosch
Talk Title: From Dexterous Assembly to AMR Fleet Planning: Robotics Research at Bosch
Abstract: The Bosch Group has a uniquely diverse set of robotic products and applications, from consumer, to professional service, to industrial robotics. The research topics in robotics being studied at the various Bosch Research locations around the globe are even broader. In the first part, this talk gives an overview to these topics including SLAM, human motion prediction, and MPC based motion planning for mobile robots, learning and planning for complex assembly tasks with dexterous joining processes, scene segmentation and learning for robot handling in warehouses, novel mechatronic elements for robotic insertion processes in mass production.
The second part covers research on robot software platforms and tools, with many contributions to the open source Robot Operating System. This includes for example micro ROS, execution management, and very new research on methods for model checking of robot deliberation with Behavior Trees. Finally, in the third part, a spotlight on the research on multi agent path finding for AMRs in intralogistics but also for contactless planar systems such as ctrlX FLOW6D is given.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Ralph Lange is head of the global research portfolio for robotics at Bosch. Since 2018, he has been Principal Investigator in three EU funded projects. OFERA (micro ROS), MROS, and CONVINCE. In the last years and in his role as Chief Expert for Robotic Systems and Software Engineering, he has been particularly active in the ROS community and represented Bosch in the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee and ROS Industrial Europe. Before joining Bosch in 2013, Ralph worked as a software engineer for TRUMPF Machine Tools. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2010.
Host: Sven Koenig
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Melissa Ochoa
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VLP Writing Workshop
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Attention all Viterbi undergrads! Need help with WRIT 150, WRIT 340, or writing for any other course? Join the VLP for snacks and expert feedback from our writing consultant!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Alex Bronz
Event Link: https://cglink.me/2nB/r392400
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Quantum Science & Technology Seminar - Rishabh Sahu, Tuesday, October 10th at 3pm in EEB 248
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rishabh Sahu, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Talk Title: Quantum Electrooptics
Series: Quantum Science & Technology Seminar Series
Abstract: In the last few decades, a myriad physical systems such as photons, atoms, ions and spins have been explored for various different quantum technologies such as computation, communication and meteorology. Until now, no single physical system has been suitable for all the different quantum applications. As a result, in the future, we can expect a quantum network of spatially separated quantum processing, memory or sensing nodes - all connected via flying qubits or optical photons. Many quantum systems such as solid state qubits and trapped ion qubits have already been successful in entangling multiple nodes separated by long distances owing to optical transitions in these systems which make it easy to bridge these local nodes with optics. However, microwave technologies such as superconducting qubits have been left behind in this matter. This is mostly because of the huge challenge posed by incompatibility of microwave and optical technologies - high energy optics not only thermally heats up the microwave circuitry but also breaks the cooper pairs in the superconducting metal breaking their superconductivity. As a result, it has been hard to establish a quantum bridge between these two frequency domains. In this talk, I will present our bridge between microwave and optical frequencies which is based on electrooptic nonlinearity. I will talk about many important results which show the viability of this platform in future quantum networking applications involving microwave technologies.
Biography: Rishabh completed his bachelor's and master's degree in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His research mainly involved studying orbital angular momentum of light, in particular, sorting photons in this basis to get a multidimensional basis for photons. His master's thesis involved simulating Maxwell's equation using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. Rishabh started graduate school at ISTA in fall of 2018 and joined the Fink group in 2019. He graduated in 2023 and works now as a postdoc on new cavity electrooptics experiments.
Host: Quntao Zhang, Wade Hsu, Mengjie Yu, Jonathan Habif & Eli Levenson-Falk
More Information: Rishabh Sahu Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Narayan Rangaraj, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Bombay University
Talk Title: Operations Planning in Long Distance and Metro Rail Systems
Host: Prof. Jong-Shi Pang
More Information: October 10, 2023.pdf
Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - SOS Building, B2
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Grace Owh
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PhD Thesis Proposal - Fei Wang
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
PhD Thesis Proposal - Fei Wang
Committee Members: Muhao Chen (Chair), Laurent Itti, Aram Galstyan, Robin Jia, Tianshu Sun
Title: Robust and Context Faithful Language Understanding with (Large) Language Models
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various language understanding tasks. However, their deployment in real world scenarios raises significant accountability concerns. In this talk, I will begin with the contextual faithfulness issue. LLMs often rely on biased parametric knowledge to make unfaithful predictions. I will present a causality driven approach aimed at mitigating entity bias to ensure context faithful NLU. Subsequently, I will introduce the robustness issue against unknown prediction shortcuts. I will demonstrate how to address the issue by proactively mitigating attention biases. Finally, I will outline potential future directions for advancing LLM accountabilityAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Melissa Ochoa
Event Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92603629078?pwd=cnAyaFNPY1A5QTJ4Ny92K2NJdUlydz09
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CS Colloquium: Michael Safaee (Keck) - From Tethers to Telomeres: Advances in Spine Surgery
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 @ 04:00 PM - 05:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Safaee, Keck Medicine of USC
Talk Title: From Tethers to Telomeres: Advances in Spine Surgery
Abstract: Junctional mechanical failures are a well recognized complication of long segment spinal fusions. Ligament augmentation with tethers can reduce junctional stress and minimize rates of proximal junctional failure PJF. A total of 242 patients with tethers were analyzed and compared to a historical cohort of 77 patients without tethers. Rates of reoperation for PJF were significantly lower with tethers 3.3 percent vs. 15.6 percent, p less than 0.001. A propensity matched cohort of 40 patients in each arm found similarly lower rates of PJF. 2.5 percent vs 22.5 percent, p equals 0.007). PJF emphasizes the need for improved preoperative risk stratification. Telomeres are DNA protein complexes that serve an important role in protecting genomic DNA. Their shortening is a consequence of aging and environmental exposures, with well established associations with diseases of aging and mortality. Whole blood was collected preoperatively on adults undergoing spine surgery. Telomere length analysis was performed using qPCR, T over S ratio. Among 43 patients, we found no significant difference in chronological age, DMI, frailty, or preoperative disability scores when comparing patients with a postoperative complication compared to those without a complication. However, patients with complications had significantly shorter telomere length T over S 0.712 vs. 0.813, p equals 0.008, which correlated to an additional attrition of 9 to 10 years despite only 5 year difference in chronological age. These data suggest that biological age may provide valuable information on preoperative risk and improve current risk calculators.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Michael Safaee, MD, is a neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of spinal disorders. He is trained in both traditional open and minimally invasive techniques, spinal oncology and adult deformity. While committed to caring for all patients, he has a special interest in scoliosis, kyphosis and revision surgery. Dr. Safaees goal is to treat patients with the same care he would want for his own family, providing safe, effective and durable outcomes tailored to the individual patient. Although surgery is almost always a last resort, he strives to educate patients with the knowledge needed to make the best decision for themselves. Dr. Safaee earned his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by residency in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a fellowship in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Safaee has over 100 peer reviewed publications and his work was recognized with the Russell A. Hibbs Award by the Scoliosis Research Society. Dr. Safaees research is currently focused on surgical outcomes in adult deformity surgery and spinal oncology, with a particular interest in risk assessment and data analytics. He is exploring the use of genetic and biological age as components of risk stratification.
Host: Nenad Medvidovic
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 136
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Melissa Ochoa
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Communications Hub: Writing and Speaking for PhD Students - Drop In Hours
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. Students!
Need help with academic and professional writing and speaking tasks? Viterbi faculty at the Hub provide one-on-one help with journal and conference articles, dissertations, fellowship applications, and career communications!
Drop by RTH 222A on MWF 10am-1pm or make an online appointment via email at eishub@usc.edu.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS Chair
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DEN@Viterbi: How to Apply Virtual Info Session
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi representatives for a step-by-step guide and tips for how to apply for formal admission into a Master's degree or Graduate Certificate program. The session is intended for individuals who wish to pursue a graduate degree program completely online via USC Viterbi's flexible online DEN@Viterbi delivery method.
Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives and ask questions about the admission process throughout the session.
Register Now!WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r653012c3782c76d45c9f2af3f668cfe9
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r653012c3782c76d45c9f2af3f668cfe9
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Ampere Trojan Talk
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Be part of what comes next in the semiconductor industry!
CPUs have helped define what the modern world we live in is across all industries from healthcare to finance. Every online application has to run somewhere and that somewhere is usually a data center. Those data centers need server CPUs. Ampere is a young company focused on building server CPUs based on ARM architecture for cloud and edge computing. Ampere allows customers to accelerate the delivery of the most memory-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, and databases in the cloud. Cloud computing industry is growing incredibly fast. Ampere is a once in a career opportunity to be a contributor to something big from ground zero. It is the best place to learn to design and bring high-end CPUs and Platforms with a small company feel to market.
RSVP in connectSC events by clicking the (Attend) button
Meeting Link: https://usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lde6vqjMtGNXfMsK0AcCEUtwtQJdQSF8w
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Location: Virtual Event
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lde6vqjMtGNXfMsK0AcCEUtwtQJdQSF8w
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Info Session: ZS Internships in Business Technology
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Info Session: ZS Internships in Business Technology
Date: Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
Time: 2-3 pm PST
Location (virtual via Zoom): Info Session: ZS Internships in Business Technology
Target Audience:
We will be specifically targeting students who are currently pursuing their bachelor’s and master’s degree in the following majors:
Computer Science
Computer Information Systems
Business and Technology Management
Information Technology & Informatics
Information Systems Management
Computer Engineering
Business Analytics
Data Science
Please note that this event is tailored for students who do not require future sponsorship and will be graduating between Dec 2024 – Summer 2025. We have a multitude of internship opportunities available within our Technology space, and we are actively hiring for various positions across all regions in the US.
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Location: Virtual Event
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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AME Seminar
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Yip, UCSD
Talk Title: Teaching a Robot to Perform Surgery: From 3D Image Understanding to Deformable Manipulation
Abstract: Robot manipulation have made massive strides in the past few years, especially in grasping for warehouse logistics, due to the achievements in the computer vision and reinforcement learning communities. One area that has taken off much slower is in understanding how to manipulate deformable objects. For example, surgical robotics are used today via teleoperation from a human-in-the-loop, but replacing the human visual understanding and task performance with an AI remains a lofty and puzzling challenge. How do you build intuition and control of how to deform, stretch, or cut anatomical tissue, find hemorrhages and suction blood and bodily fluids from view, or simply localize your robot within a dynamically changing and deformable world in real-time?
In this talk, I will discuss our work that originates from trying to automate robotic surgery, but falls towards building new modeling and learning schemes for deformable robot manipulation and visual servoing. I will discuss how we analyze a multimodal spectrum of sensory information to solve real-to-sim and sim-to-real problems, while towing a fine line between physics-based models and the less-explainable yet highly successful latent space embeddings. I will show how these techniques apply not only to automating surgical robots but general robot manipulation in real-world scenes.
Biography: Michael Yip is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer, Hellman Fellow, and Director of the Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab). His group currently focuses on solving problems in data-efficient and computationally efficient robot control and motion planning through the use of various forms of learning representations from imitation learning and reinforcement learning strategies. These techniques focus on solving problems with visually guided robot manipulation and locomotion on novel, dexterous platforms, including surgical robot manipulators, continuum robots, snake-like robots, and underwater systems. His work has been recognized through several best paper awards and nominations at ICRA and IROS, and RA-L, as well as recognitions including the NSF CAREER award and the NIH Trailblazer award. Dr. Yip was previously a Research Associate with Disney Research Los Angeles in 2014, a Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2019, and a Visiting Professor with Amazon Robotics' Machine Learning and Computer Vision group in Seattle, WA in 2018. He received a B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University.
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/98121141178?pwd=VGEyaXVWYnRaazFYWUVhbVAycGVWQT09 Meeting ID: 981 2114 1178 Passcode: NhXrDOqQU8Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 202
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/98121141178?pwd=VGEyaXVWYnRaazFYWUVhbVAycGVWQT09 Meeting ID: 981 2114 1178 Passcode: NhXrDOqQU8
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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Increase Your Salary: Negotiating Your Job/Internship Offer
Wed, Oct 11, 2023 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
THIS EVENT WILL BE HOSTED HYBRID: IN-PERSON & ONLINE SIMULTANEOUSLY
Increase your knowledge on the job/internship search by attending this professional development Q&A moderated by Viterbi Career Connections staff or Viterbi employer partners.
To access the ZOOM link and for more information on this workshop, log into Viterbi Career Gateway>> Events>>Workshops: https://shibboleth-viterbi-usc-csm.symplicity.com/sso/
For more information about all workshops, please visit viterbicareers.usc.edu/workshops.
For In-Person: Attendance is limited to room capacityLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Amazon Information Session
Thu, Oct 12, 2023 @ 04:00 AM - 05:30 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Analytical Fireside Chat with Students: Empowering Early Career Talent in Data Roles
Oct. 12, 4:00-5:30 AM
Virtual, RSVP HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7716947673603/WN_VRMTYIS_Ssa2byTkGT9yIQ#/registration
With such spirit of empowering professionals in analytics, Analyticon Fireside Chat with Students will run for 1.5 hours. After welcoming you, we will go straight to a panel session, which involves a group of experienced Amazonians in data roles to provide their insights and guidance on building a successful career in different data roles. At the end, you will have the opportunity to ask them questions, as well as find out about Amazon's job opportunities.
What you can get out of the event?
Gain insight into what Amazonians do on a day-to-day basis across various data roles (e.g. data scientist/business intelligence engineer/data engineer).
Learn how to build a successful career in a data role.
Learn about career opportunities at Amazon and interview tips.
Am I eligible to join the event?
STEM Bachelor's and Master's degree students or recent graduates who are interested in starting their career in data role and looking for internship or graduate opportunities in Amazon.
Learn More: https://analyticon2023fireside.splashthat.com/ESP
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WebCast Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7716947673603/WN_VRMTYIS_Ssa2byTkGT9yIQ#/registration
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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ECE-Controls Seminar - Ardalan Vahidi
Fri, Oct 13, 2023 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr Ardalan Vahidi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University
Talk Title: Energy and Flow Effects of Optimal Automated Driving in Mixed Traffic
Abstract: Connected and automated vehicles (CAV) are marketed for their increased safety, driving comfort, and time saving potential. With much easier access to information, increased processing power, and precision control, CAVs also offer unprecedented opportunities for energy efficient driving. This talk highlights the energy saving potential of connected and automated vehicles based on first principles of motion, optimal control theory, and practical examples from our previous and ongoing research. Connectivity to other vehicles and infrastructure allows better anticipation of upcoming events, such as hills, curves, state of traffic signals, and movement of neighboring vehicles. Automation allows vehicles to adjust their motion more precisely in anticipation of upcoming events, and save energy. Opportunities for cooperative driving could further increase energy efficiency of a group of vehicles by allowing them to move in a coordinated manner. Energy efficient motion of connected and automated vehicles could have a harmonizing effect on mixed traffic, leading to additional energy savings for neighboring vehicles.
Latest analytical and experimental results will be shown on energy and traffic flow impacts attained by anticipation and coordination. The benefits are shown in simulated scenarios and in experiments on a test track where urban and highway conditions are emulated.
Biography: Ardalan Vahidi is a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2005, M.Sc. in transportation safety from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 2002, and B.S. and M.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He has held Visiting Scholar positions at the University of California, Berkeley (2012-2013), and University of California, San Diego (2023), and scientific visiting positions at BMW Technology Office in California (2012-2013), and at IFP Energies Nouvelles, in Paris (2017). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of ASME, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. His core expertise is in systems and control and his recent publications span topics in automated and connected mobility, electrified transportation, and modeling and optimization of human performance. His research has been sponsored by US Department of Energy, NSF, US Army, and research labs of BMW, Ford, GM, Cummins, and Eaton.
Host: Dr Petros Ioannou, ioannou@usc.edu
More Info: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93103284622?pwd=SDg1bVVSMDc1SS84bzdQU1d4TVlVZz09
More Information: ECE-Controls_Seminar_Announcement.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: John Diaz
Event Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93103284622?pwd=SDg1bVVSMDc1SS84bzdQU1d4TVlVZz09
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Photonics Seminar - Bassem Tossoun, Friday, Oct. 13th at 1:30pm in MCB102
Fri, Oct 13, 2023 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Bassem Tossoun, Hewlett Packard Labs
Talk Title: Energy-Efficient III-V on Silicon Photonics for Next-Generation AI Accelerators
Series: Photonics Seminar Series
Abstract: Deep learning and the availability of large datasets have created a large drive towards new types of hardware capable of executing these algorithms with higher energy-efficiency. Recently, silicon photonics has emerged as a promising hardware platform for neuromorphic computing due to its inherent capability to process linear and non-linear operations and transmit a high bandwidth of data in parallel. At Hewlett Packard Labs, an energy-efficient III-V-on-Silicon photonics platform has been developed as the underlying foundation for innovative neuromorphic computing architectures. The latest research on our silicon photonic computing platform will be presented and discussed.
Biography: Bassem Tossoun received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2019 with his research interests including silicon photonics and the design, fabrication, and characterization of optoelectronic devices for data communications. Currently, he is a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs working on heterogeneously integrated III-V on silicon photonic devices and architectures for next-generation optical computing and communications.
Host: Mercedeh Khajavikhan, Michelle Povinelli, Constantine Sideris; Hossein Hashemi; Wade Hsu; Mengjie Yu; Wei Wu; Tony Levi; Alan E. Willner; Andrea Martin Armani
More Information: Bassem Tossoun Flyer.pdf
Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Good Enough Control of Robot Swarms
Fri, Oct 13, 2023 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Cameron Nowzari, Assoc. Prof. Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University
Talk Title: Good Enough Control of Robot Swarms
Abstract: Deploying massive swarms of robots to solve real-world problems has been a research promise for over 50 years, but even today we still do not see clear paths for how an engineer should design, deploy, and control one million robots simultaneously. This talk challenges the prevailing paradigm adopted by most engineers working on swarms. The key ideas rely on embracing bottom-up self-organization instead of more traditional top-down engineering design methods. We draw many connections to other fields of research beyond STEM and seek novel tools for approaching the robot swarm design problem.
How do 100 billion neurons in the human brain connected by 100 trillion synapses create intelligence? How can a single CEO manage an organization with 100,000+ employees?
How much influence does the President of the United States have over the 320+ million people in the country? How does a flock of birds make collective decisions without a leader? How exactly do the actions of the individual agents drive the manifestations of the collective? After showing how similar all these seemingly different examples really are and how pervasive self-organization and emergence are in everyday life, we discuss both the challenges and opportunities that come with predicting and controlling complex systems. Rather than thinking like an engineer, we consider how a chemist, biologist, psychologist, sociologist, or even industrial leader might approach our engineering problem.
Biography: Dr. Cameron Nowzari is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and director of the CREATE Lab at George Mason University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in June 2009 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in Sept 2013 from the University of California, San Diego. He spent three years as a postdoc in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania until joining Mason in 2016. He was with the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a Summer Faculty Fellow in 2019, working with the Aerospace Systems directorate.
Dr. Nowzari's research interests are highly transdisciplinary in the broad areas of controls, robotics, emergence, and autonomy. His work has applications in a wide number of areas including mobile sensors, autonomous robots, resource allocation, public health and epidemiology, network protection, and marketing campaigns. He has received multiple best paper awards from different venues and his work is currently supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research including a Young Investigator Program Award.
Host: Gerald Leob
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 145
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Stephanie Perales
