Students and Alumni

The MINERVA group is always looking for new students and postdocs.  You must have a strong statistics or computing background, but no prior experience in research is required.  Students with a background in systems engineering, public policy, economics, finance, data analytics, or natural language processing are welcome to apply. Send a CV to:

graddyre [at] price [dot] usc [dot] edu and abelz [at] usc [dot] edu

Current group

Students and postdocs currently working with MINERVA are:

Anirudh Kumar (MS CS)

Alumni

Past students and postdocs have gone on to many interesting academic and corporate positions:

Garima Adlakha (MS, CS), Rivian

Chaitanya Ambegaonkar (MS, CS), Amazon

Sukwoong Choi (postdoc), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Weiran Deng (PhD, economics), Amazon

Vaibhav Desai (MS, CS), Amazon

Lien Denoo (postdoc), Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Tilburg University

Swapnil Dhanwal (MS, CS), Activision Blizzard Media

Aleksandar Giga (postdoc), Delft Center for Entrepreneurship, Technische Universiteit Delft

Sara Gong (BS Economics/Mathematics and BA, Philosophy), Junior Research Scientist, New York University Stern School of Business

Claire Ha (BA Economics), Orbit Industries

Isabel Hanewicz (BS Economics/Mathematics), High Valley Transit

Michael Kawas (BS Economics/Mathematics and MS Economics), University of Chicago Law School

Saarthak Khanna (MS, CS), Amazon

Yalda Khashe (postdoc), Lecturer, Dan Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California

Shivesh Meenakshi Murali (MS, CS), MathWorks

Saanchi Muthya (MS, CS), Amazon

Karan Nair (MS, EE), Apple

Paras Narendranath, Computer Science (MS), SalesForce

Anshika Niraj (BS Economics/Mathematics), The Analysis Group

Nikita Parmar (MS, CS), Chicago Trading Company

Monali Patil (MS, Applied Data Sciences), Amazon

Naseela Pervez, pre-doctoral student (MS CS), Amazon

Anusha Ramakrishnan (MS, CS), IBM

Jenna Rodrigues (Postdoc; PhD, management), Disney

Harsh Sakhrani (MS, CS), Amazon

Saqlain Shaik (MS, CS) Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Market

FNU Shweta (MS, CS), Eightfold

Sanjiv Soni (MS, CS), Apple

Candice Wright (BS, CS), MS Carnegie Mellon University; now Google

Wenxuan Zhu, Computer Science (MS), Amazon