VITERBI SUMMER 2020 RESEARCH SHOWCASE

Welcome to the Viterbi Research Showcase!

Student Presentation Sessions

During each session student researchers will be allotted five minutes to present. Students will discuss their summer research project and answer questions from faculty members, staff and PhD students.

To find a student’s session please find their name in one of the below session guides. The Zoom link and time slot for the session will be at the top of the session guide.

Session 1 will take place from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST on August 4, 2020.

NEW Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97185719585?pwd=T1NsM2grRGJ5S3dEL0lZcjlaNkZUQT09

Please complete your Fan Favorite Vote after the session has concluded: https://forms.gle/Xj21DMEYuoPDjMsY6

Project Name	Name
Deep Learning Recommendation Model	Joshua Choe
Modeling Ventilator Sharing Between States During the Covid-19 Pandemic	David Desai
A Case Study on the Performance of Housing Allocation Policies Among People Experiencing Homelessness	Kathryn Dullerud
Collaborative Perception for Self-Driving Vehicles	Ray Eells
Monitoring the Urban Heat Island in Los Angeles	Maya Hildebrand
INK Lab- Toward Hierarchical Importance Attribution	Wilson Ho
Secure Publish-Process-Subscribe System for the Internet of Things	Jui Po Hung
LEAN-LIFE	Dayu Jiang
Creating Scalable Systems within MoveToCode for Long-Term Deployment in Downtown LA Schools	Chloe Kuo
University Strategic Plans and Financial Statements: What They Say About Innovation	Jack Lulich
Sythesizing words to parameters	Justin Ly
Large Scale Scaffold 3D Printing for Bone Regeneration	Jenna Matus

A root-cause analysis of the World Health Organization’s organizational systems failures and their impacts on the Covid-19 pandemic using AcciMap framework	Jessica Santos
Investigating the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak using the AcciMap framework: Safety records and lapses at the BSL-4 facilities and possible accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology	Alexia Romani
Distributed Graph Mining	Sean Syed

Session 2 will take place from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST on August 4, 2020.

Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/99417299740?pwd=VERCeldCMTlWWHVzcWtZbVYrQnZLZz09

Please complete the Fan Favorite Vote after the session has concluded: https://forms.gle/R3DyhsmKmprUB4bg7

Project Name	Name
Powered Air Purifying Respirator Design	Eshaan A Agadi
Starfish	Nathan Alvarez
Computational Agroecology	Gaurav Baney
Implementing a Computational Model of Airborne Respiratory Droplet-based Virus Transmission (PyREM)	Radhika Bhuckory
Surface Chemistry of Atomically Dispersed Catalysts	Mitchel lBias
EpiBioS4Rx	Hannah Cheves
Coupled Magneto-Mechanical Modelling of Ferrogel Systems	Amber Chow
Prediction of Clinical Prognosis and Disease Severity in COVID-19 Patients via Machine Learning	Vikram Kher
Signal Transformation, Analysis, and Compression (STAC) research group	Reshma Kopparapu
Modeling the magnetization properties of Co and Co/Cu dual segment nanowires	Jocelyn Liu
Acoustic Streaming Medical Instrument	Bryson Rogers
Mathematical Modeling for COVID and Ocular Oxygen Transport Project	Yashvardhan Salgaocar
3D Video Visualization of 3D Temperature Models	Kevin Sun
Simulating V2V Communication for Blockchain Transactions	Josh Weadick
Parallel Computing on the Cloud	Alex Yin
Oxygen Transport Project & COVID-19 PAPR	Helen Zhen

Session 3 will take place from 1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. PST on August 4, 2020.

NEW Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/94585499561?pwd=UlFYK3czaGwzRTdvUzBxM0lVQXpjdz09

Please complete the Fan Favorite Vote after the session has concluded: https://forms.gle/G4qaA5M7rzaS4z9u8

Project Name	Name
Imaging Fluorescent Objects in a Scattering Medium	Olivia Brasher
S2L2 AutoDrive Lab	Jane Carpenter
Affective Perception of Engagement and Cognitive Affective States in Loong-term In-home Socially Assistive Robot Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	Kourtney Chima
Parallelizing Sparse Matrix Multiplication for Admittance Method	Baran Cinbis
Comparing Actual and Simulated K-space data for MRI Reconstructions	Joseph Kettelkamp
Finding the Effect of Supervised and Unsupervised Factors on Speaker Diarization Error Rate	Mehul Krishna
Socially Aware, Expressive, and Personalized Mobile Remote Presence: Co-Robots as Gateways to Access to K-12 In-School Education	Haemi Lee
Virtual Doctor	Liheng Lin
Battery Capacity Modeling for Contact Tracing	Leslie Lin
Haptics Robotics and Virtual Interaction (HaRVI) Lab	Yawen Liu
Quality-Diversity Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning	Pilar Luiz
Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter	Nilay Pachauri
Integrated Hardware-Software Platform for Safe and Intelligent Autonomous System Design	Nicolo Porcu
Synthesis of Bio-Imaging Probe	Goldie Roth
Machine learning methods in autonomous vehicles	Armin Sadeghi
Socially Aware, Expressive, and Personalized Mobile Remote Presence: Co-Robots as Gateways to Access to K-12 In-School Education	Mohammad Syed
Socially Aware, Expressive, and Personalized Mobile Remote Presence: Co-Robots as Gateways to Access to K-12 In-School Education	Timothy Wang

Session 4 will take place from 1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. PST on August 4, 2020.

Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92656964537?pwd=aGR0Y2NJcC9rWi9kYVBzaS9VREpZUT09

Please complete the Fan Favorite Vote after the session has concluded: https://forms.gle/UZyL99QTg6zPykKo7

Project Name	Name
Memory Access Prediction for Data Prefetching	John Galdones
Detection and Association of Inner Hair Cell Synapses in Mice Cochlea w/ MATLAB	Gordon Gunn
Updating the LLSE TFM Matlab Code	Austin Kellogg
Neural Networks for In Situ Auger Spectra Modeling	Shanmukh Kutagulla (SeaN
Modeling the Temperature Impacts of Heat Mitigation Strategies (Cool Pavements) in LA County	Sheetal Madnani
Preliminary Hazard Assessment of the Hyperloop: Applying NASA Safety Process for Commercial Industry	Micah Nishimoto
Bandwidth Optimization of Air-Backed Ultrasonic Transducers	Zoe Nussbaum
Nanoparticle Therapy for Polycystic Kidney Disease	Colette O’Grady
Investigation of information gain of parameters in linear and nonlinear systems with application to sensor placement	Sofija Radulovic
Combining mechanistic and data-driven modeling to study pancreatic beta cell signaling	Ariella Simoni
Photoreversible Control of Membrane Protein Folding with Catanionic Vesicle-to-Micelle Transition	Juliana Tichota
California Native Plant Recognition	Buting Xu
Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Robots	Hangyi Yang
Architectural Support for Sparse Computation	Jason Yik
Surrogated DL Model for Hearthstone Deck Building	Yulun Zhang

Project Name	Name
The State of L.A. Public Transportation	Elise Adreon
Identifying biomarkers of epileptogenesis after traumatic brain injury in EEG data	Neelesh Bagrodia
LEAPFROG Lunar Lander	Camden Jones
COVID 19 Root Cause Analysis and WHO Organizational System Failure	Megan Jones
COVID-19 PAPR Development Project	Andrew Newsome
Implantation Technique for Flexible Neural Probes	Samantha Taylor
Information Batteries	Caleb Thomas

Closing Ceremony

The Viterbi Summer Research Showcase will end with a closing ceremony for research students, faculty, staff and guests on August 4, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. PST.

During the ceremony, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Dr. Oberai about the highlights of the Viterbi Summer Research Program and the Summer Research Showcase.

The ceremony will conclude with an award ceremony for the “Best Presentation” of each session and the “Fan Favorite” award from each session.

The closing ceremony will take place via Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/98457186913?pwd=OUw4alJXTHhhem9XS0RFN002dGc5Zz09

Published on July 24th, 2020Last updated on September 10th, 2020

VITERBI SUMMER 2020 RESEARCH SHOWCASE

Welcome to the Viterbi Research Showcase!

Student Presentation Sessions

Closing Ceremony

Academic Resources

Co-Curricular Opportunities

Career Connections

Graduate School

Student Involvement

Scholarships