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:
Paras Narendranath, Computer Science (MS)
Jenna Rodrigues (Postdoc; PhD, management)
Harsh Sakhrani, Computer Science (MS)
Wenxuan Zhu, Computer Science (MS)
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
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
Anshika Niraj (BS Economics/Mathematics), The Analysis Group
Nikita Parmar (MS, CS), Chicago Trading Company
Monali Patil (MS, Applied Data Sciences), Amazon
Anusha Ramakrishnan (MS, CS), IBM
FNU Shweta (MS, CS), Eightfold
Sanjiv Soni (MS, CS), Apple
Candice Wright (BS, CS), MS Carnegie Mellon University; now Google