Ten MCL members attended the Viterbi PhD hooding ceremony on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in the Bovard Auditorium. They were Pranav Kadam, Xiou Ge, Yao Zhu, Xuejing Lei, Zohreh Azizi, Zhiruo Zhou, Yun Cheng Wang, Yifan Wang, Hongyu Fu, Hong-Shuo Chen. Congratulations to them for their accomplishments in completing their PhD program at USC!

Pranav Kadam received his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2020 and Bachelor’s degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India in 2018. He joined Media Communications Lab in Summer 2019 guided by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include 3D Computer Vision and Machine Learning. His thesis is titled “Green Learning for 3D Point Cloud Data Processing”. He will join Tencent America.

Xiou Ge received the B.S. and M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, in 2016 and 2018 respectively. His research is on knowledge graph embedding and its applications in natural language processing. He is a recipient of USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship (2019). His thesis is titled “Advanced Knowledge Graph Embedding Techniques: Theory and Applications”. He will join Apple’s AI/ML research team.

Yao Zhu received her Bachelor’s degree in Central South University in Changsha, Hunan, China. She joined Media Communication Lab leading by Professor Kuo in summer 2018. Her research interests include Image Synthesis, 3D construction and Computer Vision.

Xuejing Lei received her Bachelor’s degree in Automation from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in June 2016, and received her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in May 2018. She joined Media Communications Lab in 2017 summer. Her research interests include computer vision and deep learning.

Zohreh Azizi received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2018. She joined Media Communications Lab in Fall 2019. Her research interests include image processing, computer vision, and deep learning.

Zhiruo Zhou received her B.E. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in 2018. Her research interests include computer vision and image processing.

Yun Cheng Wang received his M.S. degree from USC in 2019 and his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2018, both in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include graph neural networks and knowledge graphs.

Yifan Wang received B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Fudan University, China in 2018 and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Southern California, USA in 2020. He start to purse his Ph.D in Media Communication Lab at USC since 2020 fall. His research interests include image and video compression.

Hongyu Fu received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Peking University, Beijing, China in July 2017. As a Ph.D. student, he joined Media Communication Lab at University of Southern California, supervised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

Hong-Shuo Chen received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University in 2019. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.

Congratulations to them all! Let us wish them all the best in the future!