Meet the Fellows (Cohort 2024)

Name: Paula Arias Guardia
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
Faculty/PI: Murali Annavaram
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Project: Characterizing Quantization Methods for Large Language Model Inference on GPU

Name:  Jonathan Aydin
Major:Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI: Bistra Dilkina
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Name: David Bai
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR)
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: TWOSTEP: Multi-agent Task Planning using Classical Planners and Large Language Models

Name: Urvi Bhuwania
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy (Lira) Lab
Faculty/PI: Erdem Biyik
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Actor-free Q-learning in Continuous Action Spaces by Learning a Wire-fitted Q-function

Name: Cheyenne Chau
Major: Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: AI for Manufacturing
Faculty/PI: Qiang Huang
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Name: Anisha Chitta
Major: Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI: Bistra Dilkina
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models

Name: John D'Aiello
Major:  Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
Faculty/PI: Murali Annavaram
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Name: Sarah Fan
Major: Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: USC Center on AI Foundations for the Sciences (AIFS)
Faculty/PI: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Granularity of language guidance in diffusion models

Name: Frederick Fernandes
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI: Bistra Dilkina
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Illegal Scales & TikTok Tales: Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Pangolin Content on TikTok

Name: Woody Gan
Major: Computer Science
Lab: USC Center on AI Foundations for the Sciences (AIFS)
Faculty/PI:Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: T2IGrad on benchmarking diffusion models

Name: Keyu He
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Data, Interpretability, Language and Learning (DILL) Lab
Faculty/PI: Swabha Swayamdipta
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Beyond the Text: How Explanation Qualities Influence User Trust in Visual Language Models

Name: Safwat Khalil
Major: Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Artificial Intelligence & Complex Systems (AICS)
Faculty/PI: Mayank Kejriwal
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Name: Nidhi Munikote
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR)
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: The American Sign Language Knowledge Graph

Name: Shreya Nair
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR)
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: A Behavioral Approach to Control AV Decision Making in Mixed Autonomy Systems

Name: Richard Peng
Major: Computer Science
Lab:Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR)
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Reducing side effects in robots using large pretrained models

Name: Alex Qian
Major:Computer Science
Lab: Foundations Of Robust Trustworthy Intelligent Systems (FORTIS)
Faculty/PI: Yue Zhao
Department:Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: PyOD2: A Python Library for Outlier Detection with LLM-powered Model Selection

Name: Michael Siu
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Foundations Of Robust Trustworthy Intelligent Systems (FORTIS)
Faculty/PI: Yue Zhao
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: PyOD2 A Python Library for Outlier Detection with LLM-powered Model Selection

Name: Christina Wang
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR)
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Learning to overcome side effects in robot learning

Name: Richard Joungyoon Kim
Major: Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Artificial Intelligence & Complex Systems (AICS)
Faculty/PI: Mayank Kejriwal
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Prompt Engineering Strategies for Large Language Models.

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

Name: Jeena Mahajan
Major: Computer Science
Lab:  Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI:Bistra Dilkina
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models

Name: Qiang Zeng
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
Faculty/PI: Murali Annavaram
Department:Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Name: Wendy  Wu
Major: Computer Science
Lab:Language, Intelligence, and Model Ethics (LIME) Lab
Faculty/PI: Jieyu Zhao
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Name: Zhenyu Zhao
Major: Computer Science
Lab: Language, Intelligence, and Model Ethics (LIME) Lab
Faculty/PI: Jieyu Zhao
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project:

Name: Liana Zhu
Major:Computer Science
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI: Bistra Dilkina
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models