Scholars

Each year, a select group of top Ph.D. students from the Electrical Engineering Department are selected as Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholars. This set of students are chosen carefully by a faculty committee on the basis of their research accomplishments and desire for an academic career beyond the Ph.D. MHI Ph.D. Scholars are considered the top students in the department and prove to be leaders.

To help scholars in their career development, each of them receives:

  • a cash award
  • mentor-ship and recommendations from department faculty (eg. one-on-one faculty lunch meetings)
  • research presentation critiquing and filming – view scholar research videos
  • funding for travel to give talks at other institutions where they can develop collaborations, increase visibility and receive feedback on their work
  • funding to develop and organize a workshop/project to encourage student collaboration, initiate innovative ideas and demonstrate remarkable research

2012-13 Scholar workshop funding was used for the Ph.D. Student Seminar Series

2012 – 2013 MHI Ph.D. Scholars:




Moh Amer
Research Interest: Nanotechnology and Nano Electronics
Advisor: Stephen Cronin
RTH B113
mohammra@usc.edu CV




Kartik Audhkhasi
Research Interest: Machine learning and signal processing
Advisor: Shrikanth S. (Shri) Narayanan
EEB 405
audhkhas@usc.edu CV




Hao Huang
Research Interest: High speed optical communication using light beam carrying orbital angular momentum
Advisor: Alan Willner
EEB 535
haoh@usc.edu CV




Osonde Osoba
Research Interest: Statistical Signal Processing
Advisor: Bart Kosko
osonde.osoba@usc.edu CV



Daphney-Stavroula Zois
Research Interest: Communications with an emphasis on resource allocation in sensor networks, Stochastic Control Theory, Detection and Estimation Theory; current focus is on the design of resource allocation methods for energy-efficient Wireless Body Area Networks
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
EEB 522
zois@usc.edu CV



4/16/13 – News article: Past and Present Scholars
Past Ph.D. Scholars
Current Ph.D. Scholars
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