I am an undergraduate student at USC advised by Prof. Paul Bogdan. I am fortunate to be working with Dr. Bogdan at the Cyber Physical Systems Group.

My research interests lie in the fields of control systems and machine learning. Specifically, I am interested in designing autonomous systems and improving decision-making under uncertainty.

Please refer to my CV for more details about my education and research experience.

Controls & Autonomy

• Emily Reed, Qi Cao, Yayoue Wang, Khaled Alzamel, Arian Ashourvan, Paul Bogdan, Sergio Pequito. Predicting and Preventing Seizures Onset using the Quantification of Stability of Fractional-Order Systems (In preparation to be submitted to Nature Communications), 2023.

I am currently working on designing a fixed-wing drone to land autonomously after completing its assigned flight path. I will be using a laser altimeter to measure the altitude from the ground, and based on this information, provide predictions for the safest landing. Previously, I managed to deploy the drone and assign a flight path to it. I continue to work on the design in my free time. Here is a link to my fixed-wing RC plane.

In the summer after my junior year, I joined the Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory at the Information Sciences Institute as an undergraduate research intern. I was admitted as an intern to work on a state-of-the-art project for designing a computer vision algorithm for mapping a patient’s facial landmarks while performing radiation therapy. Our aim in this project was to build a facial landmarks detection system using Intel d435i cameras and install it on the TrueBeam radiotherapy system. I proposed a face tracking algorithm and implemented it on the Intel camera from scratch, and the algorithm was able to successfully pass facial landmarks detection tests that our research group performed. I learned the techniques for building reliable algorithms on machine learning platforms like Tensorflow. I utilized computer vision libraries like OpenCV to design the neural network that is responsible for processing real-time camera recording and confirming that the facial landmarks were detected and shaded. Click here to see my work.

• Introduction to Embedded Systems
• Introduction to Programming for Electrical Engineers
• Introduction to Digital Circuits
• Distributed Systems for the Internet of Things
• Software Design for Electrical Engineers
• Linear Circuits
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics