Faculty: Michelle Povinelli
PhD Students:
- Raymond Yu (Electrical Engineering), co-advised with Jayakanth Ravichandran
- Silvia Guadagnini (Physics)
- Tien Hsing Wang (Electrical Engineering)
- Mahsa Torfeh (Electrical Engineering), co-advised with Wade Hsu
- Shiyu Li (Electrical Engineering), co-advised with Wade Hsu and Constantine Sideris
- Shadman Shahid (Electrical Engineering)
Alumni
We are proud of all our group alumni and their contributions in industry, academia, and national labs. Since 2008, we have had 13 PhD students, 1 MS student, and 2 Undergraduate Senior Thesis students earn their degrees. Three postdocs have gone on to positions in academia or industry.
- Dr. Bo Shrewsbury, PhD in Physics, 2024
Current: Instructor, USC Department of Physics & Astronomy - Dr. Alok Ghanekar, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2020-2023
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County - Dr. Max Lien, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2023.
Current: Northrop Grumman - Dr.
Romil Audhkhasi, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2023.
Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington - Mashnoon Sakib, MS in Electrical Engineering, 2021
Current: PhD student, UC Irvine - Dr. Ahmed Morsy, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2020
Current: AWS - Dr. Aravind Krishnan, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2019
Current: Intel - Mingkun Chen, BS (thesis) in Electrical Engineering, 2018
Current: PhD student, Stanford - Elise Uyehara, BS (thesis) in Electrical Engineering, 2018
Current: PhD student, MIT - Dr. Shao-Hua (Nick) Wu, PhD in Electrical Enginering, 2017
Current: Rivian - Dr. Duke Andersen, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2017
Current: DRS Leonardo - Dr. Ningfeng Huang, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2015
Current: Oculus - Dr. Roshni Biswas, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2015
Current: ASML Brion - Dr. Eric Jaquay, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2014
In memoriam - Dr. Chenxi Lin, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2013
Current: ASML Brion - Dr. Luis Javier Martínez Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2010-2013
Current: Associate Professor, Universidad Mayor de Chile - Dr. Camilo Mejia, PhD in Physics, 2013
Current: JPL - Dr. Jing (Maggie) Ma, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2013
Current: Facebook - Dr. Mehmet Solmaz, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2010-2013
Current: Intel
Former Visitors and Interns
We have enjoyed hosting researchers from USC, the USC CURVE and SURE programs, the IUSSTF-Viterbi program, and other exchange programs.
- Ziren Wang, undergrad intern, Tsinghua-USC Program, 2024
- Jimmy Li, undergrad, 2021-2023
- Abhishek Muhkerjee, remote undergrad intern, IUSSTF-Viterbi Program, 2021
subsequent: PhD student, MIT - Cameron Davis, Marcos Girod, Iris Li, and Sean Yamaguchi, Undergrad Research Team, Viterbi CURVE Program, 2021-2
- Yujun Sun, MS student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2019
- Fanqing Xu, MS student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2019
- Luis Pedraza, visiting PhD student, 2019
subsequent: PhD U. Federal de Minais Gerais; research engineer Synopsis - Brennan O’Gorman, research assistant 2018-19
subsequent: MS Northwestern - Mohamed Zaher, undergrad visitor from Zewail City, 2018
- Karthik Vijay AM, undergrad, IUSSTF-Viterbi Program, 2018
subsequent: PhD student Purdue - Arkadev Roy, undergrad, IUSSTF-Viterbi Program, 2017
subsequent: PhD Caltech; postdoc Stanford - Luqi Wang, undergrad, Nankai University exchange program, 2016
subsequent: PhD student, UC Davis - Shriddha Chaitanya, undergrad, Viterbi India Program, 2016
subsequent: PhD student, Columbia - Traci Takasugi, undergrad, SURE Program, 2015
subsequent: graduate student, UIUC - Ruyue Zhang
undergrad, Physics Dept. visit program with Nankai University, 2015
subsequent: MS student U. Tokyo - Luke Bouma, USC Provost’s Fellowship for Undergraduate Research, 2013-14
subsequent: PhD Princeton; Postdoctoral Fellow Caltech - Danika Luntz-Martin, undergrad, SURE Program, 2014
subsequent: PhD student U. Rochester - Ruobai Feng, undergrad, USC Physics Department visit program with Nankai University, 2014
subsequent: MS University of Michigan - Debarghya Sarkar, undergrad, Viterbi India Program, 2013
subsequent: PhD USC; postdoc Harvard; Research Scientist IBM Research - Vivek Sahay, undergrad, SURE Program, 2013
- Mahmoud Kalaee, MS student in Physics, USC, 2012-2013
subsequent: PhD Caltech; postdoc Caltech; Research Scientist Amazon - Apoorva Athavale, undergrad, Viterbi India Program, 2011
subsequent: PhD U. Wisconsin-Madison - Karthik Kumar Rao
USC Provost’s Fellowship for Undergraduate Summer Research, 2010 - Victoria Saadat
USC WiSE Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2010 - Avik Dutt, undergrad, Viterbi India Program, 2010
PhD Cornell; postdoc Stanford; Assistant Professor U. Maryland - Steven Choi, MS student in Electrical Engineering, USC, 2009