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Alexa Garcia

From First-Gen Engineer to PwC: A Four-Year Yes Strategy

April 29, 2026

CLASS OF 2026 – The first engineer in her family, this Industrial & Systems Engineering graduate from USC Viterbi’s Daniel J. Epstein Department is heading to PwC this fall – with two degrees, a passport full of band trips, and a philosophy she learned the hard way.

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Your Company Could be Buying the Wrong Information

March 18, 2026

A new award-winning paper argues that a decades-old standard for measuring the value of information yields inconsistent results and that companies, hospitals, and government agencies may be systematically misprioritizing how they gather data.