PhD Students
Hong-En Chen received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 2023. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and 3D Generative AI.
Zijing Chen received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London and and her Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from USC. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC. Her research interests include machine learning and computer vision.
Catherine Aurelia Christie Alexander received her Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2022 and her Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2024. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at USC. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and AI for healthcare.
Aolin Feng received the B.S. degree in electronic information engineering and M.S. degree in information and communication engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include image/video coding and quality assessment.
Qixin Hu received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC. His research interests include machine learning, green learning and foundation models.
Youngrae Kim received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Hongik University and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). His research interests include machine learning and computer vision.
Haiyi Li is currently a Ph.D student in Electrical Engineering at USC. She received her bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2022. Her research interests include image processing and machine learning.
Mahtab Movahhedrad received her B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tabriz and Tehran polytechnics, Iran, respectively. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, advised by Professor Kuo. She joined Media Communications Lab in Fall 2021. Her research interests include image processing, computer vision, and Machine learning.
Wei Wang received her bachelors in Applied Physics from Northeastern University (CN), and her MS degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She is currently a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in Multimedia Communication Lab, advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. Her research interests include deep learning and image processing.
Email: wang890 AT usc.edu
Xinyu Wang is currently a first year PhD student in Electrical Engineering. She received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in June 2019. She joined the Media Communications Lab in summer 2021. Her research interests lie in image forensics and machine learning.
Yixing Wu received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Xidian University and his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from USC. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC. His research interests include image processing and AI for healthcare.
Jintang Xue is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at USC. He received his bachelor’s degree in communication engineering from Shanghai University, China, in June 2021. He joined Media Communications Lab in summer 2022. His research interests include machine learning and image processing.
Jiaxin Yang is currently a Ph.D. student in USC and major in Electrical Engineering. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in June 2020. He joined the MCL lab in summer 2022 and his research interests include image processing and machine learning.
Tsung-Shan (Kevin) Yang is currently a Ph.D. student, advised by Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo, in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2019 and his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from NTU in 2021. His research interests include image understanding and machine learning.
Email: tsungsha AT usc.edu
Website: https://keevin60907.github.io/
Jie-En Yao is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University in 2022. His research interests are image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.
Chee-An Yu is pursuing his Ph.D. degree, advised by Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo, in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2018 and 2020, respectively, from National Taiwan University. His research interests are image and signal processing, machine learning, and electronic design automation. In his free time, he is a hiking enthusiast and basketball lover.
Ganning Zhao received her bachelor’s degree in Automation from Guangdong University of Technology, China, in June 2019, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering. She joined Media Communications Lab in summer 2020 and is currently working on texture synthesis and multimodal sensing data. Her research interests include machine learning and computer vision.
Qingyang Zhou received the B.E. degree in Communication Engineering from Shanghai University, China in 2018, and the M.S. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Tongji University, China in 2021. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Media Communication Lab at USC, supervised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include video compression and 3D point cloud compression.
Email: qzhou776 AT usc.edu
Master Students
Alex Jou received his Bachelor's Degree in Statistics and Economics from UC Berkeley in 2020. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at USC with an emphasis on machine learning and data science. His interests include AI applications and automation.
Dingyi Nie is a current Master of Science student in Computer Science. He received a Bachelor's in Engineering from Tsinghua University. His research interests mainly include digital signal processing and real-world AI.
Laurence Palmer is a current MS student in Computer Science. He received a B.S and B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from UC Santa Barbara in 2021, and a Masters in Engineering in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley in 2023. His research interests include machine learning and computer vision.