USC Ming Hsieh Institute - Department of Electrical Engineering

USC’s Mark Humayun, Shri Narayanan elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors The two researchers are among eight NAI fellows from the university, including President C. L. Max Nikias.

Thanks to everyone for coming out for our Research Festival - an annual event featuring student research, industry professionals, and free food and drinks! Here's a few pictures from the event. See more at Flickr here: http://bit.ly/2fiFZR0

Celebrating 10 Years as the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering! The 2006 endowment of $35 million was the largest department naming at USC, and one of the largest ever to name an EE department anywhere in the world.

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USC ranked No. 15 nationally in new, comprehensive Wall Street Journal survey The survey’s measures include student body diversity, resources for student success and graduates’ ability to obtain satisfying, high-paying jobs.

Alan Willner: IEEE Fellow, Photonics Pioneer, self-described “Creeping Goo” There is a word in Hebrew, kehillah, which defined loosely, means community. But more than that, a kehillah is a group of people with a shared mission. It's a word that Alan Willner, Orthodox Jew and leading USC engineer in takes extremely seriously.

How Long Is an Actress Onscreen? A New Tool Finds the Answer Faster. Software developed for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media could analyze a 90-minute film in 15 minutes, an engineer said.

Last week was the kickoff event for a 5 year, $11.25 million MURI grant to develop brain-machine interfaces to enhance human decision making. The project is led by USC Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering's own Dr. Maryam Shanechi.

Dr. Shanechi is leading a team of international researchers and Department of Defense labs. Read more about the project here: bit.ly/2bWAgzw

In celebration of his 30 year career at USC, Dr. Michael Arbib will be the inaugural speaker at the Remarkable Trajectory Lecture Series. The series covers "50 years of Brains, Machines, and Mathematics."

6th Annual EE Research Festival! Happening Friday, November 6, 2015. See some of the brightest Ph.D. Students presenting research through posters, pitches, and demos! Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Industry are all invited to attend! RSVP Today:
http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/research-festival/6th-annual/

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Part Two of the MHI Ph.D. Scholar Public Talk Finalist Competition!

Today, EEB 132 - 4:00p

Erick Moen
Ahmad Abbas
Di Zhu
Ren Chen
Masoud Moshref Javadi

Join us TODAY for the MHI Ph.D. Scholar Public Talk Finalist Competition!

10:30am in EEB 132

Speakers:
Navid Naderializadeh
Yongxiong Ren
Daniel Bone
Sajjad Beygi
Vinod Kristem
Sushil Subramanian

Save the Date! EE Research Festival - Friday, 11/6
http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/research-festival/6th-annual/

Ph.D. Students - this is the last weekend to get your applications together!! Deadline to apply for the 2015-2016 MHI Ph.D. Scholarship is THIS SUNDAY 8/23!

Applying is easy! Submit your resume and a one page letter stating why you'd like to be an MHI Scholar.

http://mhi.usc.edu/scholars/call-for-nominees/

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Are you interested in applying to become an MHI Ph.D. Scholar? Come to our Information Session to find out how to apply! EEB 132, 11:00a.

Today we'll hear from EE Pioneer Jerry Mendel! Join us in EEB 132 at 2:00 for our EE Pioneer Series.

http://mhi.usc.edu/about/news/2015/04/20/ee-pioneer-series-jerry-m-mendel/

Gearing up for this weekends EE Department Retreat! Hope to see you there!

Ming Hsieh EE Department alumna Sukrutha Raman Bhadouria (MSEE '07) was recently featured in Business Insider's 30 most important women under 30 in tech list.

The 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech These 30 women are 30 or younger and are making huge strides in tech.

Entrepreneurship Seminar Series hosted by the 2014-15 MHI Scholars begins in 10 minutes. Join Guest Speaker Edward Beres, from the USC Stevens Center for Innovation! EEB 132.

Happening right now! The 5th Annual Research Festival! Join us for the second poster session (Gero Patio) - until 2:30, and then for the Pioneer Series with Solomon Golomb (EEB 132)

Looking forward to a technical talk and oral history interview with Professor Melvin A. Breuer! TODAY - EEB 132, 1:30 p.m. http://mhi.usc.edu/about/news/2014/10/03/ee-pioneer-series-melvin-a-breuer/

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It's Friday again! That means it's time for the Integrated Seminar Series! Stop by to see Professor Pam Heydari from UC Irvine discuss Terahertz and Millimeter-Wave Frequency Generation and Synthesis in Silicon, EEB 132 beginning at 3:00p.

http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910778

Today join Dr. Matt Straayer, Maxim Integrated Products, as he discusses: Analog-to-Digital Converter Trends for Integrated Systems, in EEB 132 beginning at 3:00pm.

http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910777

Join us in a few minutes as we hear the second half of the MHI Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Talks! EEB 132.

Daniel Bone - Computational Analysis of Human Interaction Behavior: Translational Applications in Autism
Ningfeng Huang - Nanophotonics for Photovoltaics and Light-Assisted Self-Assembly
Vasilis Ntranos - TBA
Sudeng Hu - Image Quality Assessment
Yan Yan - High-Capacity Millimetre-wave Communications with Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing
Daniel Wong - Energy Proportional Computing
Ahmad Abbas - Graphene Nanoribbons for Electronic and Sensing Applications
Kunal Datta - High-Power mm-Wave Wireless Communication for beyond 5G
Shermin Arab - Enhancement of Optical Response in 1D and 2D GaAs Nanostructures
Mohammad Reza Rajati - TBA
Sunav Choudhary - Active Target Detection: A Randomized Approach
Rohan Dhall – Engineering Optical Properties of Two Dimensional Semiconductors

Taking place in 30 minutes, the MHI Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Talks! EEB 132 - 2:30p. Come watch your classmates compete for one of our MHI Ph.D. Scholarships.
http://mhi.usc.edu/scholars/

See you there!!

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Join us today at 2:30 in EEB 132 for our MHI Scholar Talks! Finalists for the 2014-2015 MHI Scholar will be competing to become an MHI Scholar!

Run Chen - Integrated Reconfigurable Radios for Future Wireless Communication
Navid Naderializadeh- ITLinQ: A New Approach for Spectrum Sharing in Device-to-Device Communication Systems
Yicong Zheng- Toward efficient large scale quantum computation
Yun Rock Qu - High-performance packet processing for SDN data plane
Daniel Bone - Computational Analysis of Human Interaction Behavior: Translational Applications in Autism

Taking place in 15 minutes! The Integrated Seminar Series with speaker Joyce P**n from the University of Toronto. Talk Title: "Integrated Photonics in Silicon and Silicon Nitride-on-Silicon Platforms"
EEB 132, 3:00p - 4:30p
http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910774

Please join us today for our Integrated Seminar Series with speaker Joyce P**n, University of Toronto. EEB 132 3:00p-4:30. http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910774