Alumni – Master Student

Zhehang Ding

Zhehang Ding is a current M.S. student in electrical engineering in USC. He received the B.S. degree in Hangzhou Dianzi University, China in 2015. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.
Email: zhehangd AT usc.edu

Peida Han

Employment: Amazon, Seattle, WA, USA
Peida Han received the B.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus in 2020. He is currently pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at USC. He joined the Media Communications Lab in summer 2021. His research interests include medical image segmentation and computer vision.

Jia He

Employment: Microsoft, USA
Jia He received her B.S. and M.S. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, in 2007 and 2010 respectively. She worked in Realsil Microelectronics (Suzhou) Co. LTD. as system engineer in 2010. She was with Professor Kuo’s Media Communications Lab from January 2011 to August 2015. She received her MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2015 Summer.

Alejandro Koretzky

Employment: TuneSplit, USA
Alejandro Koretzky received his B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Blas Pascal, Argentina in 2008. He came to USC with a Fulbright-Becar Presidential Fellowship and worked with Professor Kuo doing research on Blind Audio Source Separation. He received his M.S. degree from the University of Southern California in Spring 2015.

Abinaya Manimaran

Employment: Pubmatic, USA
Abinaya Manimaran received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering at USC in 2019. She received her undergraduate degree from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India in 2014. She was working as a Researcher at TCS Innovation Labs before joining USC. She joined Media Communications Lab in Fall 2018. Her research interests lie in the span of Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

Xu Qiu

Employment: Google, USA
Xu Qiu received the B.S. degrees in software engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2011. She was with Professor Kuo’s Media Communications Lab from August 2013 to August 2015. She received her MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2015 Summer.

Thiyagarajan Ramanathan

Employment: Lily AI, USA
Thiyagarajan Ramanathan received M.S. in Electrical Engineering at USC in 2019. He received his Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Amrita University, India in 2017. He joined MCL in Fall 2018. His research interests are in the field of Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Yaqi Shao

Employment: Google, USA
Yaqi Shao received her Master’s degree in Computer Science at University of Southern California in 2020. She obtained B.S. in computer science and technology from Zhejiang Gongshang University, China in 2018. She joined Media Communications Lab in Spring 2020. Her research interests include computer vision and deep learning.

Zhi Tong

Employment: Changjiang Securities, China
Zhi Tong received his B.E. degree in Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011. He received his M.S. degree in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California in 2013.

Ping Wang

Employment: Qualcomm, USA
Ping Wang received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2013; and her M.S. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2015. She was with Professor Kuo’s Media Communications Lab from August 2015 to September 2016.

Zhaolei Xiao

Employment: Huawei, Shenzhen, China
Zhaolei Xiao received her Bachelor degree in Hefei University of Technology in China, 2016. Currently, as a master’s student in Electrical Engineering at USC, she joined Media Communications Lab in spring 2018 and guided by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. Her research interests include image processing and deep learning.

Chang Xu

Employment: Google, USA
Chang Xu received the B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2016. He joined the Media Communications Lab as intern during the summer from May 2017 to August 2017. He received his M.S. degree from the University of Southern California with 4.0 gpa in 2018 Fall.

Xin Zhang

Employment: Google, USA
Xin Zhang received the B.E. in Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 2010 and earned her M.S, focusing on speech processing at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2013. She was with Professor Kuo’s Media Communications Lab from Nov. 2013 to December 2014. She received her MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2015 Spring.

Wenchao Zheng

Wenchao Zheng received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China in June 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. He has been been with Media Communications Lab since January 2016. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.