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EiS Communications Hub Drop-In HoursWed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to stop by the EiS Communications Hub for one-on-one instruction for their academic and professional communications tasks. All instruction is provided by Viterbi faculty at the Engineering in Society Program.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home?authuser=0
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Recruitment Season Workshop
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Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Whether you're actively job hunting or just thinking about your future plans, visit the Viterbi Learning Program for a recruitment season workshop! Our team is available for resume review, cover letter editing, interview practice, and more - plus a range of tasty snacks to fuel your work!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alex Bronz
Event Link: https://cglink.me/2nB/r395640
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EiS Communications Hub Drop-In Hours
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Engineering in Society Program
Student Activity
Drop-in hours for writing and speaking support for Viterbi Ph.D. students
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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EiS Communications Hub Drop-In Hours
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Engineering in Society Program
Student Activity
Drop-in hours for writing and speaking support for Viterbi Ph.D. students
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Ph.D., William H. Schwarz Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Cell Mechanosensing and Prognostic Assays in Cancer
Abstract: Cell locomotion is a critical step in the process of cancer metastasis, as it enables cancerous cells dissociating from a primary tumor to navigate through interstitial tissues and ultimately colonize distant organs. Metastasizing cells migrate through three-dimensional (3D) longitudinal channel-like tracks created by various anatomical structures or generated via remodeling of extracellular matrix by cancer-associated stroma cells. This seminar will present a multidisciplinary approach, integrating bioengineering tools with molecular and cell biology techniques to understand cancer cell migration in precisely engineered microenvironments, which recapitulate in vitro the 3D longitudinal channels encountered in vivo. The plasticity of cancer cell migration will be discussed, focusing on how cells sense, adapt, and respond to different physical cues, such as confinement and extracellular fluid viscosity. Moreover, this presentation will outline how our current knowledge on the mechanisms of cell motility has led to the development of a novel microchannel assay capable of distinguishing aggressive from non-aggressive cancer cells for accurate diagnosis, prognosis and precision care of cancer patients.
Biography: Received the Diploma of Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1989 and the doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1995. After his postdoctoral training in the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering at Rice University, he joined the faculty of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins in 1997, and served as Department Chair from 2008 till 2017. He holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Oncology. He is Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). His signature research focuses on how cells sense and respond to different physical cues. He is known for deciphering a new mechanism of tumor cell migration in confinement called the Osmotic Engine Model, for identifying extracellular fluid viscosity as a novel physical cue regulating cancer metastasis, and for developing innovative prognostic and diagnostic assays in cancer. He has also discovered key functional selectin ligands involved in tumor cell adhesion to host cells, and characterized biophysically these receptor-ligand interactions at the single-molecule level. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles in premier journals such as Nature, Cell, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Advances etc. His work has been cited ~13,500 times with an h-index of 66. Eleven of his mentees have launched successful academic careers in premier institutions, whereas another 18 have joined the government or industry and now hold leading appointments. He is currently the PI or MPI on multiple NIH R01 and CDMRP grants.
Host: Peter Wang
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 145
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Carla Stanard
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PhD Thesis Proposal - Qinyi Luo
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
PhD Thesis Proposal - Qinyi Luo
Title: High-Performance Heterogeneity-Aware Distributed Machine Learning Model Training
Committee members: Xuehai Qian (co-chair), Viktor Prasanna (co-chair), Ramesh Govindan, Chao Wang, Salman Avestimehr
Abstract: The increasing size of machine learning models and the ever-growing amount of data result in days or even weeks of time required to train a machine learning model. To accelerate training, distributed training with parallel stochastic gradient descent is widely adopted as the go-to training method. This thesis proposal targets four challenges in distributed training: (1) performance degradation caused by large amount of data transfer among parallel workers, (2) heterogeneous computation and communication capacities in the training devices, i.e., the straggler problem, (3) huge memory consumption during training caused by huge model sizes, and (4) automatic selection of parallelization strategies. The proposal first introduces our work in decentralized training, including system support and algorithmic innovation that strengthen tolerance against stragglers in data-parallel training. Then, an adaptive during-training model compression technique is proposed to reduce the memory consumption of training huge recommender models. In the end, in the aspect of automatic parallelization of training workloads, a novel unified representation of parallelization strategies is proposed, as well as a search algorithm that selects superior parallel settings in the vast search space, and preliminary findings are discussed.
Date and time: Feb 21 11am-12:30pm
Location: EEB 110
Zoom link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97299158202?pwd=bVlnRVFhTjJlZjVCY1hVNy9yWWE1UT09Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 110
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Events
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DEN@Viterbi - Online Graduate Engineering Virtual Information Session
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi School of Engineering for a virtual information session via WebEx, providing an introduction to DEN@Viterbi, our top-ranked online delivery system. Discover the 40+ graduate engineering and computer science programs available entirely online. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives during the session to discuss the admission process, program details, and the benefits of online delivery.
WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r82a91c6ad51b03d2e2f6c88d71dcaf50
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r82a91c6ad51b03d2e2f6c88d71dcaf50
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WIE x TBP: Male Allies in STEM
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Join WIE and the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society for our Male Allies in STEM Event!
A panel of women and non-binary science and engineering students and faculty will be sharing their stories about identity and experiences with male allyship, to raise awareness about the challenges of working in male-dominated professions and ways that men can be more effective allies.
All undergraduates and graduate students are welcome, and we'll have free burritos (vegetarian and vegan options available)!Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thelma Federico Zaragoza
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/WIE/rsvp?id=395816
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KIUEL: Viterbi Talent Show (National Engineers Week)
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Student Activity
Join us for an evening filled with live music from USCâs Musicians Club. Show off your hidden talent and compete for bookstore prizes!
Here is the Google Form to sign up to perform in the talent show: https://forms.gle/mpdfJ1xFFT9Z51hd9Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kevin Giang
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/viterbi/rsvp?id=395821
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