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Official Page of University of Southern California’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program

Committed to developing fresh approaches to policies and to building a supportive environment for both women and men, the WiSE program is driving USC to the leading edge of diversity in science and engineering.

08/07/2025

Mark your calendars for an inside look at this summer's research led by our WiSE Researchers at the WiSE Undergraduate Summer Research Mini Symposium!

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Friday, September 5
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 2:00 - 5:00 pm PT
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB), Room 248

🔗 Register now at visit https://forms.gle/xwkSuTLWoc2PC7AGA

More details on the program schedule to follow!

10/10/2024

Our first alumna talk this semester is with Angelica Cobo, Ph.D. on Monday, October 28 from 2 - 3pm PT on Zoom!

This event is open to the USC community. To register for this webinar, visit tinyurl.com/WiSEAngelicaC

🎤 Talk - Beyond Graduation: Advancing in The Medical Device Industry

About Angelica:

Angelica Cobo has over 11 years of experience as a project lead, Research & Development engineer, and researcher in the Medical Device Industry/Academia-. She has a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Biomedical Engineering. During her PhD, she focused on the development of implantable medical devices using Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technologies.

Previously, Angelica worked at Johnson & Johnson as a Senior R&D Engineer and now, she works at Medtronic as a Business Process Program Manager. Angelica was born and raised in Cali, Colombia and now lives in Miami, FL where she loves spending time with her family. She also enjoys traveling, hosting her friends at home, and is a foodie.

08/21/2024

14 days left until our WiSE Undergraduate Summer Research Mini Symposium begins! Let’s take a moment to meet some of the brilliant minds behind this summer’s latest research 💫 🔬

First up, say hello to Anusha Deshpande!

Explore more of Anusha’s research at our Mini Symposium on September 5th from 2:00 - 4:30 PM in EEB 248! Don’t miss out—register now at tinyurl.com/wiseminisymposium2024

08/10/2024

Save the Date! 📅✨ Join us for the WiSE Undergraduate Summer Research Mini Symposium on September 5th from 2:00 - 4:30 pm PT in EEB 248!

Discover the latest research from our brilliant WiSE researchers and register now at tinyurl.com/wiseminisymposium2024

Stay tuned for talk titles and abstracts. This event is open to all USC students, staff, and faculty!

07/19/2024

Last STEM Bytes of the summer! Join us for the final seminar on Monday, July 29, from 9-10 am PT via Zoom.

To register, visit tinyurl.com/STEMBytes7-29

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗷 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗶
🎤 Talk: Exploring General Purpose LLM Limitations in Performing Professional Tasks

This exploration will discuss why general-purpose large language models (LLMs) cannot independently perform professional tasks, focusing on their limitations in handling complex, context-sensitive tasks, the constraints of their training data, and the ethical challenges they face in professional environments.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮
🎤 Talk: Navigating Safe Campus Operations during Epidemics with Reinforcement Learning

SafeCampus incorporates a custom RL environment, leveraging a stochastic epidemic model, to realistically represent university campus dynamics during epidemics. Our results also illustrates the inherent trade-off in characterized by the dilemma between stricter measures, which may effectively reduce infections but impose less educational benefit (more in-person interactions), and more lenient policies, which could lead to higher infection rates.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙐𝙎𝘾 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨.

07/08/2024

Our next seminar for STEM Bytes is on Monday, July 15 from 9 - 10am on Zoom!

To register, visit tinyurl.com/STEMBytes7-15

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗤𝗶𝗻𝘆𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗲
🎤 Talk: Cross-Task Generalization Abilities of Large Language Models

Humans can learn a new language task efficiently with only few examples, by leveraging their knowledge and experience obtained when learning prior tasks. In this talk, I will present my work on (1) benchmarking cross-task generalization abilities with diverse NLP tasks; (2) developing model architectures for improving cross-task generalization abilities; (3) analyzing and predicting the generalization landscape of current state-of-the-art large language models.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀
🎤 Talk: Privacy in the Era of Large Language Models

In this talk, I will motivate why privacy is needed for large language models, then I will discuss the challenges of providing privacy, the existing solutions, and future directions.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙐𝙎𝘾 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨.

06/24/2024

Start July off with our next talk on Monday, July 1 from 9 - 10 am PT on Zoom!

To register, visit tinyurl.com/STEMBytes7-1
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗘𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗬𝗮𝗴𝗶𝘇, 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴

🎤 Talk: Heart in Motion: Real-time Cardiac MRI at 0.55T

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗿𝘂𝗺, 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴

🎤 Talk: Modeling the Cue Signal Response Competition in Tumor Cells

06/11/2024

Our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is in full swing!

Special thanks to Cari Kaurloto, Acting Head at the Science & Engineering Library for being a stellar host and guiding our WiSE researchers to become experts at accessing and editing Wikipedia articles 👩‍💻

06/07/2024

✨Meet our 2024 - 2025 WiSE Researchers✨

We have an exciting summer planned as we support our students in gaining first-hand laboratory research experience, which they will proudly present at our WiSE Undergraduate Summer Research Mini Symposium coming this fall! 🧬🔬👩‍🔬

06/04/2024

To kick off Summer 2024 STEM Bytes Seminar series, our first talk is on Monday, June 17 from 9 - 10 am PT on Zoom!

To register, visit tinyurl.com/STEMBytes6-17

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗼-𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻, 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

🎤 Talk: Flex Distribution for Bounded-Suboptimal Multi-Agent Path Finding

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆

🎤 Talk: Serotonin Deficiency from Constitutive SKN-1 Activation Drives Pathogen Apathy

𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙐𝙎𝘾 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨.

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