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Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Fall 2016
 

 
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Sol Golomb Wins Benjamin Franklin Medal
 
With this award, Golomb will join the ranks of previous Franklin Medal recipients and distinguished laureates, which include Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth Blackburn and the individual for whom the USC engineering school is named, Andrew Viterbi.
 
 
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The Center for Cyber Physical Systems and the Internet of Things
 
Led by Bhaskar Krishnamachari, the new center brings together more than 30 USC faculty members from Viterbi and beyond to develop a fundamental understanding of new technologies and bridge the gap between the virtual and physical worlds.
 
 
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ALUM Named one of the Top Ten Data Scientists in India
 
Nilesh Karnik, a USC alum, was recently named one of Analytics India Magazine's "Top 10 Data Scientists in India" of 2015.
 
 
 
 
 
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Professor Maryam Shanechi Wins $11.25 Million for Brain-Machine Interface Research
 
The award, provided by the US Department of Defense and the UK Ministry of Defense over a five-year period, aims to connect scholars at multiple universities to take on key research challenges.
 
 
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How Long Is an Actress Onscreen?
 
USC Engineers teamed up with the Geena Davis Institute to combat gender bias in Hollywood
 
 
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Rehan Kapadia - 2016 Young Investigator Award Winner
 
Professor Kapadia was one of only 56 scientists sharing over $20 million in grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Alan Willner Receives NSSEF Fellowship
 
The 5 year, $3 million award will allow the optics pioneer to study twisted light.
 
 
 
 
 
 
SAIL Students Win 5th Straight INTERSPEECH Award
 
The award recognizes the research paper describing an innovative approach that achieved the best performance in an international competition for automated estimation of the degree of nativeness in speech.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Professor Chongwu Zhou Thinks Small - Very Small
 
The nanotech leader uses carbon nanotubes - 50K times smaller than a human hair - to bring us the future of portable electronics.
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Slaughter Receives Chairman Award from Great Minds in STEM
 
Professor Slaughter was recognized for his lifelong quest of changing the conversation about changing the conversation about engineering and furthering diversity.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Salman Avestimehr Wins Okawa Foundation Research Grant
 
The grant supports his research on Approximation Approaches in Network Information Theory.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jay Kuo Receives 2016 Taylor L. Booth Award
 
Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo, Director of the Multimedia Communication Lab and Dean's Professor in Electrical Engineering was named the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award for his contributions to computer science education.
 
 
 
 
 
 
What do Target Shoppers Want?
 
Researchers in the USC Data Science Lab win first place in the Target Data Challenge.
 
 
 
 
 
 
BrainSuite: Zooming into the Human Brain
 
Dr. Richard Leahy and his team of researchers develop new techniques for processing brain images.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ming Hsieh Professors Win NSF EARS Grant to Tackle Grand Challenges
 
Mike Chen, Keith Chugg, and Mahta Moghaddam will be addressing environmental monitoring.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Electrical Engineering Alum's Wildly Successful Career as a Venture Capitalist
 
"USC Viterbi helped me learn how to think for myself and helped me spread my wings in terms of my ability to think critically and broadly."
 
 
 
 
 
 
Two Professors Win Outstanding Paper Awards
 
Ashutosh Nayyar and Ketan Savla Receive the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society
 
 
 
 
 
 
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