Viterbi Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: Quidient: Software for Spacecraft Maintenance and Orbital Debris Recognition

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: Autonomous Docking Mechanisms for Orbiting Space Platforms

Lab: Haptics Robotics and Virtual Interaction (HaRVI) Lab
Faculty/PI: Heather Culbertson
Department: Computer Science
Project: Designing a Haptic Pillow for Anxiety and Stress Management

Lab: Knowledge Capture and Discovery Lab
Faculty/PI: Yolanda Gil, Emmanuel Johnson
Department: Computer Science
Project: Towards Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) Skills Training

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: LEAPFROG (Lunar Entry and Approach Platform For Research On Ground)

Lab: Biomedical Microsystems Lab
Faculty/PI: Ellis Meng
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project: Monitoring Flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid with a Microfabricated Electrochemical Parylene Flow Sensor

Lab: Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR) Lab
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Computer Science
Project: Action Conditioned Segmentation for ALFRED

Lab: Analog/RF Integrated Circuits, Microsystems, and Electromagnetics (ACME) Lab
Faculty/PI: Constantine Sideris
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Machine Learning Assisted Photonic Circuit Design

Lab: Wireless Devices and Systems (WiDeS) Group
Faculty/PI: Andreas Molisch
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Deep Learning Based Wireless Localization in GPS-Denied Areas

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: CLING-ERS: Optimizing RPO Ease for Assembly Operations

Lab: Analog/RF Integrated Circuits, Microsystems, and Electromagnetics (ACME) Lab
Faculty/PI: Constantine Sideris
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Development of a Portable Point-of-Care Magnetic Spectroscopy Platform

Lab: Aerodynamic Design Research Lab (ADRL)
Faculty/PI: Alejandra Uranga
Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Wing Tunnel Testing for Flying Configurations

Lab: Optimization for Data Driven Science
Faculty/PI: Meisam Razaviyayn
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science
Project: RIFLE: Robust Inference From Low-Order Marginals

Lab: Photonics in Complex Systems
Faculty/PI: Chia Wei Wade Hsu
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Noninvasive Optical Imaging inside Biological Tissue

Lab: Knowledge Capture and Discovery Lab
Faculty/PI: Yolanda Gil, Emmanuel Johnson
Department: Computer Science
Project: Towards Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) Skills Training

Lab: Suen Lab
Faculty/PI: Sze-chuan Suen
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Project: Racial Disparities in Disease Outcomes

Lab: Robot Locomotion And Navigation Dynamics (RoboLAND) Lab
Faculty/PI: Feifei Qian
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project: Robot-Aided Exploration and Analysis of Muddy Environments

Lab: N/A
Faculty/PI: Najmedin Meshkati
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Project: Offshore Wind Turbines as an Emerging Source of Renewable Energy: An Engineering, Safety, Health and Environmental Life Cycle Analysis

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: MAGNETO: Mechanical and Software design of 1.5U CubeSat 

Lab: Analog/RF Integrated Circuits, Microsystems, and Electromagnetics (ACME) Lab
Faculty/PI: Constantine Sideris
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Implementation of a Wireless Body Area Network Using Bluetooth Low Energy

Lab: Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations and Robots (GLAMOR) Lab
Faculty/PI: Jesse Thomason
Department: Computer Science
Project: Retention and Retrieval: Second Language Gestural Learning

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: Simulating Space Dynamics in a Low-Friction Environment for Satellite Development and Validation

Lab: Information Science Institute
Faculty/PI: Mayank Kejriwal
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Project: Lower-Order and Higher-Order Centrality Correlations in Real-World Networks

Lab: Energy Efficient Secure Sustainable Computing Group
Faculty/PI: Peter Beerel 
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Synthetic Dataset Generation To Empower Ember Detection in Wildfire

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: LEAPFROG (Lunar Entry and Approach Platform For Research On Ground)

Lab: Armani Lab
Faculty/PI: Andrea Armani
Department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Investigation of How Bacteria Responds to Mechanical Cue: The System And The Automation

Lab: USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning
Faculty/PI: Vatsal Sharan
Department: Computer Science
Project: Examining the Effects of Spurious Correlations for Reliance of Machine Learning Systems on Data Biases

Lab: Sharada Lab
Faculty/PI: Shaama Sharada
Department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Developing Methods to Screen Transition Metal Catalysts: Linear Free Energy Relationships

Lab: Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab
Faculty/PI: Somil Bansal
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Online Update of Safety Assurances Using Confidence-Based Predictions

Lab: Information Science Institute
Faculty/PI: Mayank Kejriwal
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Project: Enron Network Analysis

Lab: Photonics in Complex Systems
Faculty/PI: Chia Wei Wade Hsu
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Optimization of Perfectly Matched Layer for Electromagnetic Simulation

Lab: Armani Lab
Faculty/PI: Andrea Armani
Department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Millifluidic Channel Integration for Heat Mitigation in Electromagnetic Microscopy Mount

Lab: Nweke Research Group, The N.E.S.T.
Faculty/PI: Chukwuebuka Nweke
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project: Seismic Site Characterization: Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) for Determination of Site Periods

Lab: Armani Lab
Faculty/PI: Andrea Armani
Department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Nano/Biomaterials and Photonics

Lab: McCurry Lab
Faculty/PI: Daniel McCurry
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project: Identifying Disinfectant Byproduct Precursors through Derivatization and Oxidation

Lab: Haptics Robotics and Virtual Interaction (HaRVI) Lab
Faculty/PI: Heather Culbertson
Department: Computer Science
Project: The Physical World for Visually Impaired and Blind People

Lab: Malmstadt Lab
Faculty/PI: Noah Malmstadt
Department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Project: Determination of Vesicle Unilamellarity by Fluorescence Quenching in a Microfluidic Channel

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: Simulating Space Dynamics in a Low-Friction Environment for Satellite Development and Validation

Lab: Photonics in Complex Systems
Faculty/PI: Chia Wei Wade Hsu
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Exceptional Points in Laser Systems

Lab: Aerodynamic Design Research Lab (ADRL)
Faculty/PI: Alejandra Uranga
Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Wing Tunnel Testing for Flying Configurations

Lab: Space Engineering Research Center
Faculty/PI: David Barnhart
Department: Astronautical Engineering
Project: ESPA Based Deployable Spacecraft Design

Lab: Cyber Physical Systems Group
Faculty/PI: Paul Bogdan
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Predicting Seizure Onset in Epileptic Patients