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We are so happy to welcome a new summer intern student, Zhilin Lu, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

I am LU ZHILIN from the department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua, Beijing, and my hometown is Inner Mongolia.

My main research interest is Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. And I am interested in Computer Vision and Media Compression as well. These areas can actually form a sort of aggregation and improve one another. AR and VR technology is not that mature so far and there are still many problems to settle both in technology and commerce.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

MCL (Media Communications Lab) is a really wonderful place to join, providing open and passionate research environment.

Professor Kuo is a very kind and wise man and his opinion, like “You can’t be an engineer all along your career” really impressed me a lot. I meet loads of friendly, motivated and skillful seniors here as well and they help me in my research and life greatly.

When it comes to USC, I just want to say it’s really a beautiful school! Great sense of design is everywhere in the whole campus. What’s more, the P.E. and School of Cinematic Arts of USC are both fantastic.

3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

I am leaving on August 12th and I do look forward to improving my research skills and accomplishing some concrete works before that. Besides, I hope that a long-term connection between friends that I make here and me can be made as well.

We are so happy to welcome a new summer intern student, Po-Cheng Tseng, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself? (Previous research experience, project experience, research interest and expertise)

My name is Tseng, Po-Cheng , and I am currently a sophomore majoring in computer science in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a computer science student, I have had some internship experiences , which include, but not limited to ,web-scraping and writing websites, etc. Even though I currently only know very little about the field of artificial intelligence, I have been enamoured by the potential and the change that this field will bring about to the world, and it is always enjoyable to build something from scratch!

2. What’s your first impression of USC and MCL?

From the very moment that I stepped into the campus of USC, I have always felt an aura of perseverance and confidence around. Although USC does not boast the most beautiful buildings in the world, but everyone here is feverishly and relentlessly pursuing his or her goal, whether it be in the labs , on the track field or in the swimming pool.

MCL has always given me a vibe of friendliness and peacefulness, where everybody is willing to help each other when one encounters a problem. I love the symbiotic atmosphere created here!! I would like to give my special thanks to Eric, Sreedhar ,Alshivar and many others (I am not sure if I have spelt your names wrong haha) for showing me around upon my arrival here in the USC, and also Haqiang Wang , Wang Ye , for your generous help [...]

We are so happy to welcome a new summer intern student, Derenik Haghverdian, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself? (Previous research experience, project experience, research interest and expertise)

My name is Derenik Haghverdian. I am a rising senior at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) majoring in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Statistics. I am interested in the application of mathematics in solving ambitious questions and challenges. I have recently been engaged with machine learning and neural networks, and I see a great growth potential in this field.
I am also very passionate about photography, and I am a professional Flamenco guitar player.

2. What’s your first impression of USC and MCL?

People at MCL were very welcoming and supportive of their new lab members. MCL is full of talented and ambitious individuals with strong academic and research backgrounds. I am honored to be a part of this great team and have the chance to learn and collaborate with them.

3. What’s your future expectation for MCL?

I want to develop a solid foundation in deep learning in my experience at MCL, so I can apply my knowledge and expertise to future projects in this field. I am confident that under the supervision of Professor Kuo and his amazing and professional team I will gain valuable experience in this field.

We are so happy to welcome a new summer intern student, Abhishek Panigrahi, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

My name is Abhishek Panigrahi. I am a fourth year undergraduate student in  the department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. I have come for my summer internship in MCL. I like mathematics and its applications in various tasks. I have also developed an interest for machine learning and deep learning. The scope that I see for myself in deep learning is that a lot of things are still unanswered and require mathematics to describe “why they work?”. It’s my desire to solve the deepest secrets of deep learning models with mathematics.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

I have already spent a couple of weeks here. Based on my experience, people here in MCL are really helpful. I am enjoying myself here. So far I have met a great group of motivated and passionate individuals all offering unique perspectives. The thing that I like about all of them is that there is a friendship bond binding all of them and it didn’t take much time for that bond to bind me as well. I shall try to know all of them, their research and be a part of this immense network by the end of my 2 month stay.

3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

My ambition here is to try to learn the working of residual network and see if I can apply mathematics to do so. My another ambition is to make new friends here and interact with all of them, so [...]

We are so happy to welcome a new master student, Chang Xu, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

My name is Chang Xu, I am a graduate student at USC pursuing Electrical Engineering Degree. I used to study Automation in my undergraduate study. However, after I learned something relate to data science and machine learning, I found that I love to pursue machine learning path to do something for the data. I have passion for learning computer languages like, C++ and python and love applying what I have learned in electrical engineering into practice by some projects.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

I have already been in USC for a year. I love the environment and academic atmosphere here. USC has best professors in the world and enough research resources for students. The MCL is a community of passionate and intelligent students who pursue their research relate to communication and data. I love talking to people in MCL because I can learn a lot of knowledge every time.

3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

To be honest, after taking the course EE569, I love convolutional neural network and machine learning. I want to learn more about them and apply them into some real practice. I hope I can get familiar with how to conduct real research and get to know the fantastic parts of academic life.