Daben Weiqing Liu Research Fellowship
Meet the Fellows - Cohort 2024
Paula Arias Guardia
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
PI: Murali Annavaram
PI: Murali Annavaram
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Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Project: Characterizing Quantization Methods for Large Language Model Inference on GPU
Jonathan Aydin
Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
PI: Bistra Dilkina
PI: Bistra Dilkina
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
David Bai
Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: GLAMOR
PI: Jesse Thomason
PI: Jesse Thomason
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: TWOSTEP: Multi-agent Task Planning using Classical Planners and Large Language Models
Urvi Bhuwania
Computer Science
Lab: Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy (Lira) Lab
PI: Erdem Biyik
PI: Erdem Biyik
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Actor-free Q-learning in Continuous Action Spaces by Learning a Wire-fitted Q-function
Cheyenne Chau
Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: AI for Manufacturing
PI: Qiang Huang
PI: Qiang Huang
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Anisha Chitta
Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
PI: Bistra Dilkina
PI: Bistra Dilkina
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models
John D'Aiello
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
PI: Murali Annavaram
PI: Murali Annavaram
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Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sarah Fan
Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Lab: USC Center on AI Foundations for the Sciences (AIFS)
PI: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
PI: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Granularity of language guidance in diffusion models
Frederick Fernandes
Computer Science
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
PI: Bistra Dilkina
PI: Bistra Dilkina
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Illegal Scales & TikTok Tales: Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Pangolin Content on TikTok
Woody Gan
Computer Science
Lab: USC Center on AI Foundations for the Sciences (AIFS)
PI: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
PI: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: T2IGrad on benchmarking diffusion models
Keyu He
Computer Science
Lab: Data, Interpretability, Language and Learning (DILL) Lab
PI: Swabha Swayamdipta
PI: Swabha Swayamdipta
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Beyond the Text: How Explanation Qualities Influence User Trust in Visual Language Models
Zhenyu Zhao
Computer Science
Lab: Language, Intelligence, and Model Ethics (LIME) Lab
PI: Jieyu Zhao
PI: Jieyu Zhao
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Liana Zhu
Computer Science
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
PI: Bistra Dilkina
PI: Bistra Dilkina
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models
Safwat Khalil
Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Artificial Intelligence & Complex Systems (AICS)
PI: Mayank Kejriwal
PI: Mayank Kejriwal
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Nidhi Munikote
Computer Science
Lab: GLAMOR
PI: Jesse Thomason
PI: Jesse Thomason
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: The American Sign Language Knowledge Graph
Shreya Nair
Computer Science
Lab: GLAMOR
PI: Jesse Thomason
PI: Jesse Thomason
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: A Behavioral Approach to Control AV Decision Making in Mixed Autonomy Systems
Richard Peng
Computer Science
Lab: GLAMOR
PI: Jesse Thomason
PI: Jesse Thomason
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Reducing side effects in robots using large pretrained models
Alex Qian
Computer Science
Lab: FORTIS
PI: Yue Zhao
PI: Yue Zhao
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: PyOD2: A Python Library for Outlier Detection with LLM-powered Model Selection
Michael Siu
Computer Science
Lab: FORTIS
PI: Yue Zhao
PI: Yue Zhao
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: PyOD2 A Python Library for Outlier Detection with LLM-powered Model Selection
Christina Wang
Computer Science
Lab: GLAMOR
PI: Jesse Thomason
PI: Jesse Thomason
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Learning to overcome side effects in robot learning
Richard Joungyoon Kim
Computer Science/Business Administration
Lab: Artificial Intelligence & Complex Systems (AICS)
PI: Mayank Kejriwal
PI: Mayank Kejriwal
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Prompt Engineering Strategies for Large Language Models
Hongyi Li
Computer Science
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
PI: Murali Annavaram
PI: Murali Annavaram
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Jeena Mahajan
Computer Science
Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
PI: Bistra Dilkina
PI: Bistra Dilkina
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models
Qiang Zeng
Computer Science
Lab: Super Computing In Pocket (SCIP)
PI: Murali Annavaram
PI: Murali Annavaram
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Wendy Wu
Computer Science
Lab: Language, Intelligence, and Model Ethics (LIME) Lab
PI: Jieyu Zhao
PI: Jieyu Zhao
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Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Research Project: Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning