Viterbi Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)

Meet the 2024 SURE Fellows


USC Viterbi School of Engineering hosted a total of 38 SURE fellows for the 2024 summer program. The SURE 2024 cohort came from 28 colleges and university across the country and represent a diversity of academic backgrounds and engineering interests. SURE fellows were placed in 34 different laboratories within Viterbi and conducted research under the guidance of over 50 faculty members, postdocs, and PhD students. Funding for SURE fellows was supported by various partners, including Amazon, USC-Meta Center, and USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
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Sankalp Agrawal
Amazon SURE Fellow
The Ohio State University
Electric Engineering 

Lab: Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy Lab (Lira Lab)
Faculty/PI: Erdim Biyik
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Akshaan Ahuja
USC-Meta SURE Fellow
University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science

Lab: Networked Systems Lab (NSL)
Faculty/PI: Ramesh Govindan
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Analiese Bancroft
Amazon SURE Fellow
Stanford University
Material Science & Engineering

Lab: Biomedical Microsystems Lab
Faculty/PI: Ellis Meng
Department: Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Michael Battiest
Amazon SURE Fellow
Pasadena City College
Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Lab: Cyber-Physical Systems
Faculty/PI: Paul Bogdan
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems

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Amari Butler
Amazon SURE Fellow
Harvard University
Physics

Lab: Laboratory for Complex Materials and Devices
Faculty/PI: Jayakanth Ravichandran
Department: Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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Stephania Castro
Amazon SURE Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering

Lab: Interaction Lab
Faculty/PI: Maja Mataric
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Natalie Cavallo
Amazon SURE Fellow
Brown University
Computer Engineering

Lab: Robot Locomotion And Navigation Dynamics (RoboLAND)
Faculty/PI: Feifei Qian
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems

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Prahalad Chari
Amazon SURE Fellow
Rice University
Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Lab: Energy-Efficient Secure Sustainable Computing Group (EESSC)
Faculty/PI: Peter Beerel
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems

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Karen Clark
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Physics

Lab: Nweke Research Group: The N.E.S.T
Faculty/PI: Chukwuebuka Nweke
Department: Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Jaden Coward
Amazon SURE Fellow
Duke University
Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Lab: Khan Lab 
Faculty/PI: Yasser Khan
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Ebonee Davis
Amazon SURE Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Lab: Sensing, Learning, and Understanding for Robotic Manipulation (SLURM)
Faculty/PI: Daniel Seita
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Melissa De La Cruz
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Computer Engineering

Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI: Phebe Vayanos
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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August DeFore
Amazon SURE Fellow
Los Angeles Valley College
Chemical Engineering

Lab: McCurry Lab
Faculty/PI: Daniel McCurry
Department: Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Lynna Deng
Amazon SURE Fellow
Northwestern University
Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Science

Lab: Fluid-Structure Interactions Laboratory
Faculty/PI: Mitul Luhar
Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

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Bhargavi Deshpande
Amazon SURE Fellow
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Lab: Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Faculty/PI: Yong Chen
Department: Astronautical Engineering

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Felipe Jared Guerrero Moreno
Amazon SURE Fellow
Western Governors University
Computer Science

Lab: GLAMOR Lab
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Nathan Haile
Amazon SURE Fellow
Columbia University
Computer Science

Lab: FPGA Lab / Data Science Lab
Faculty/PI: Viktor Prasanna
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Manuela Hernandez
Amazon SURE Fellow
College of The Canyons
Civil Engineering

Lab: The Sustainable Lab
Faculty/PI: Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz
Department: Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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William Huang
USC-Meta SURE Fellow
Yale University
Computer Science

Lab: Melady Lab
Faculty/PI: Yan Liu
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Vrushavi Kagita
Amazon SURE Fellow
Irvine Valley College
Computer Science and Data Search

Lab: Interaction Lab
Faculty/PI: Maja Mataric
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Vikram Kakaria
Viterbi SURE Fellow
Princeton University
Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Lab: Health Systems Engineering Lab
Faculty/PI: Shinyi Wu
Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Daniel J Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Christian Langarica
Amazon SURE Fellow
California State University, Fullerton
Electrical Engineering

Lab: Wireless Devices and Systems Group (WiDeS)
Faculty/PI: Andreas Molisch
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems

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Xuezhen (Connie) Li
Amazon SURE Fellow
Pasadena City College
Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Lab: Advanced Composites Design Lab
Faculty/PI: Bo Jin
Department: Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

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Selam Mehreteab
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of California, Santa Cruz
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics

Lab: Computational Systems Biology Laboratory
Faculty/PI: Stacey Finley
Department: Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Luis Millan Rosales
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Math and Computer Science

Lab: Network Reconnaissance Lab (NetRecon)
Faculty/PI: Corey Baker
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems

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Mara Morales-Arnao
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of Notre Dame
Environmental Engineering

Lab: Coastal Engineering Research Lab
Faculty/PI: Patrick Lynett
Department: Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Evelyne Morisseau 
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of California, Berkeley
Mechanical Engineering

Lab: Haptics Robotics and Virtual Interaction (HaRVI) Lab
Faculty/PI: Heather Culbertson
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Alex Mulrooney
USC-Meta SURE Fellow
University of Delaware
Electrical Engineering

Lab: Optimization for Data Driven Science (ODDS)
Faculty/PI: Meisam Razaviyayn
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Alexander Neary
Amazon SURE Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Computer Science

Lab: Applied Movement and Pain Laboratory (AMPL)
Faculty/PI: Jason Kutch
Department: Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Erica Okeh
Amazon SURE Fellow
Howard University
Computer Science

Lab: Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems
Faculty/PI: Mayank Kejriwal
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Sungje Park
USC-Meta SURE Fellow
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Aerospace Engineering

Lab: Statistical Learning for Dynamics and Controls Lab
Faculty/PI: Stephen Tu
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Howard Shu
USC-Meta SURE Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Electrical Engineering

Lab: Wireless Devices and Systems Group (WiDeS)
Faculty/PI: Andreas Molisch
Department: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems

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Anuoluwapo (Anu) Soneye
Amazon SURE Fellow
Howard University
Computer Engineering

Lab: Reliable and Secure Software
Faculty/PI: Chao Wang
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Josiah Turner
USC-META SURE Fellow
University of California, Santa Barbara
Physics

Lab: Li Research Group
Faculty/PI: Zhenglu Li
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Taylor Vander
Amazon SURE Fellow
Howard University
Computer Science

Lab: Center for AI in Society (CAIS)
Faculty/PI: Phebe Vayanos
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Kristine Vergara
Amazon SURE Fellow
California State University, Fullerton
Computer Engineering

Lab: Informatics and Computing in Neuroscience (ICON) Lab
Faculty/PI: Dominique Duncan
Department: Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Maggie Wang
Amazon SURE Fellow
Princeton University
Computer Engineering

Lab: AI, Language, Learning, Generalization, and Robustness (Allegro) Lab
Faculty/PI: Robin Jia
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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Zian Zeng
USC-Meta SURE Fellow
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Computer Science

Lab: GLAMOR Lab 
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Published on October 19th, 2022

Last updated on October 4th, 2024