Faculty
Professor, Computer Science Department
Director, USC Machine Learning Center
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
yanliu.cs at usc.edu
Postdocs & PhD Students
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer Science
BS: UST China
MS: Brown University
PhD: Rensselaer Polytechnic
zijuncui at usc.edu
PhD Candidate
Computer Science
BS: Tsinghua University
chuizhem at usc.edu
PhD Candidate
Computer Science
BS: Peking University
zhangyiz at usc.edu
PhD Student
Computer Science
BS, MEng: MIT
loctrinh at usc.edu
PhD Candidate
Computer Science
BS: The Ohio State University
enouen at usc.edu
PhD Student
Computer Science
BS: Washington University in St. Louis
samgriesemer at usc.edu
PhD Student
Computer Science
BS: Shandong University
MS: Peking University
defucao at usc.edu
PhD Student
Computer Science
BA: UC Berkeley
emilyn98 at usc.edu
PhD Student
Computer Science
BS: University of Wisconsin – Madison
yewen at usc.edu
PhD Student
Computer Science
BS: Sharif University of Technology
sajjadsh at usc.edu
Key Collaborators
Visiting PhD Candidate
Computer Science
BS: Jilin University
qh_147 at usc.edu
Masters’ & Undergraduate Students
Undergrad @ USC
Computer Science
Working with Emily
lbyang at usc.edu
Undergrad @ USC
Data Science
Working with Emily
bzliu at usc.edu
Undergrad @ USC
Economics & Data Science
Working with Emily
angelax at usc.edu
Undergrad @ USC
Applied and Computational Mathematics
Working with Defu
florajia at usc.edu
Masters @ USC
Computer Science
Working with Defu
vanshayg at usc.edu
Undergrad @ USC
Computer Science and Business Administration
Working with Emily
ryanyeung at usc.edu
Senior @ Crystal Springs Uplands School
Working with Zijun
joshua.hikida at gmail.com
Undergrad @ USC
Applied and Computational Mathematics
alabaweh at usc.edu
Alumni & Alumnae
Karishma Sharma – Amazon
Sirisha Rambhatla – Asst Prof @ University of Waterloo
Sungyong Seo – Google Cloud AI
Guangyu (Max) Li – QCraft
Michael Tsang – Facebook
Nitin Kamra – Facebook
Natali Ruchansky – Netflix
Rose (Yu) Qi – Asst Prof @ UCSD
Sanjay Purushotham – Asst Prof @ UMBC
Taha Bahadori – Amazon
Xinran He – Snap
Yaguang Li – Google Brain
Zhengping Che – AI Innovation Center, Midea Group
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