Meet the Fellows (Cohort 2025)

Name:  Adhish Chakravorty
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: Wireless Devices and Systems Group
Faculty/PI: Andreas Molisch
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: AI and Machine Learning for Object Detection in Point Clouds with Applications to Ray Tracing

Name: Michaela Dowd
Major: Chemical Engineering (Materials Engineering)
Lab: Air-Climate-Equity (ACE) Lab
Faculty/PI: Hao Hu
Department: Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Project: Merging Observational Datasets of Air Pollutant Concentrations With Machine Learning in South Coast Air Basin (SCAB)

Name: Misha Fu
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Interaction Lab
Faculty/PI: Maja Matarić
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Personalized Socially Assistive Robots with a Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Foundation Model for Well-being Support

Name: Tali Gankin
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: Signal Transformation Analysis and Compression (STAC Lab)
Faculty/PI: Antonio Ortega
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Graph Signal Processing: Sampling

Name: Dylan Gatua
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: USC Interaction Lab
Faculty/PI: A'Di Dust
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Programming a QTRobot to Lead Social and Emotional Learning Sessions for Elementary Schools

Name: Prital Jariwala
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lab: Signal Transformation Analysis and Compression (STAC Lab)
Faculty/PI: Antonio Ortega
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Project: Efficient Compression and Transformation Methods for Hyperspectral Imaging

Name: Francesca Kubica
Major: Ariticifical Intelligence for Business
Lab: HUMANS Lab
Faculty/PI: Emilio Ferrara
Department: Marshall School of Business/Viterbi School of Engineering
Research Project: X Politics Statistical Analysis

Name: Ashley Lan
Major:  Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab:  Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy (Lira) Lab
Faculty/PI: Erdem Biyik
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Behavioral Cloning from Suboptimal Demonstrators

Name: Marcela Lopez 
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lab: Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) Lab
Faculty/PI: Yalda Khashe
Department: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Research Project: Enhancement of Patient Safety in Hospital-At-Home Through AI

Name: Afrin Momin
Major: Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: HUMANS Lab
Faculty/PI: Emilio Ferrara
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Cultural Identity in AI: Uncovering Personas in Large Language Models

Name: Ryan Nene
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
Faculty/PI: Murali Annavaram
Department:Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project:

Name: Beverlyn Tsai
Major: Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: HUMANS Lab
Faculty/PI:Emilio Ferrara
Department:Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: From Pixels to Polls: How AI and Non-AI Political Tweets Influence Public Sentiment and Election Integrity

Name: Aiyi Wu Zheng
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: Air-Climate-Equity (ACE) Lab
Faculty/PI: Jiachen Zhang
Department:Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: U.S. Data Center Energy Consumption

Name: Ray Zhang
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
Faculty/PI: Murali Annavaram
Department:Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Using streaming LLM in LayerSkip draft model for long context inputs