MCL Members Attended the PhD Hooding Ceremony
Nine MCL members attended the Viterbi PhD hooding ceremony on Thursday, May 9, 2019, from 8:30-11:00 a.m. in the Bovard Auditorium. They were Fenxiao Chen, Yueru Chen, Ronald Salloum, Yuhang Song, Yuanhang Su, Ye Wang, Chao Yang, Heming Zhang, and Junting Zhang. Congratulations to them for their accomplishments in completing their PhD program at USC!
Fenxiao (Jessica) Chen received the B.S. degree in General Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA in 2014. She then continued with her PhD in Media Communications Lab at USC from 2017. Her research interests include natural language processing and deep learning.
Yueru Chen received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in June 2014. Since 2015, she joined MCL for the PhD study. Her thesis topic is “Object Classification based on Neural-network-inspired Image Transforms”, where she focuses on solving the image classification problem based on the neural-network-inspired Saak transform and Saab transform.
Ronald Salloum received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC). The title of his dissertation is “A Data-Driven Approach to Image Splicing Localization.” His research interests include multimedia forensics, machine learning, and biometrics.
Yuhang Song received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2014. He then joined MCL to pursue Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at USC from 2015. His research interests include deep generative models, image generation, visual relationship detection, and visual understanding.
Yuanhang Su received his Ph.D. at the University of Sothern California (USC) in computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. He received M.S. degree from the USC in 2010 and the dual B.S. degree from the University [...]