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2 USC faculty members named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

USC researchers elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020 are Yolanda Gil, Leana Golubchik, Behrokh Khoshnevis, Paul Newton, Timothy Pinkston and Ray Stevens, clockwise from top left. (Photos/Courtesy of each AAAS fellow)

Cancer cells: Sensitive, resistant, competitive Jul 10, 2020

Is communication the key to fighting cancer? (2019). Click image to learn more.

Optimizing chemotherapy schedules using evolutionary game theory (2018). Click on image to learn more.

Biology based mathematical models to optimize chemotherapy treatments #DataTalk (EP 17) (2018)

Mathematical model forecasts the path of breast cancer (2015). Click on image for more.

Lung cancer takes a study from Google’s playbook (2013). Click on image for more information.

Fighting cancer with the GooglePageRank algorithm. Sort of (2013). Click on image to learn more.

Modeling metastasis (2012). Click on image to read more.

USC Viterbi Faculty Mentoring Award (2011). Click on image to learn more.

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Research Award (2017)

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AME Department OHE 430D
3650 McClintock Ave Room 400
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089

where are they now

- - - Jiyeon Park (Thesis2022) is now a Postdoctoral scholar in Mathematical Biology at the University of Utah and City of Hope Cancer Center
    - Yongqian Ma (Thesis2020)
      is now a Quantitative Analyst at Wells Fargo Bank in Charlotte, NC
    - Zaki Hasnain (Thesis2018) is now a Data Scientist at JPL in Pasadena
    - Jeffrey West (Thesis2017) is now a faculty member in the Integrative Mathematical Oncology Department at the Moffitt Cancer Research Center in Tampa Florida. You can keep up with the field by signing up for his Mathematical Oncology Newsletter (here). He is looking for post-docs!
    - Panagiotis Tsilifis (Ph.D. 2016) is now Research Engineer at GE Research in Schenectady NY
    - Angie Lee (Thesis2014) is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College
    - Jeremy Mason (Thesis2013) is now Assistant Professor of Research Urology at the Keck School of Medicine at USC
    - Vitalii Ostrovskyi (Thesis2013) is now a Senior Software Engineer at Google
    - Kamran Aslam (Thesis2012) is now Sr. Project Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation and First Officer at American Airlines
    - Stefano Campagnola (Thesis2010) is now a Staff Engineer at JPL in Pasadena
    - Jerry Chen (Thesis2009) is now CEO at Mooney International
    - George Chamoun (Thesis2008) is now Senior Mechanical Engineer at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport Tennessee
    - Ralph Basilio (Thesis2007) is now Spacecraft Mission Manager at JPL in Pasadena
    - Houman Shokraneh (Thesis2007) is now Senior Engineer at SpaceX
    - Bryan Cooley (Thesis2006) is now Senior Project Manager at The Aerospace Corporation
    - Mohamed Jamaloodeen (Thesis2000) is now Associate Professor of Mathematics at Georgia Gwinnett College
    - Rangashari Kidambi (Thesis1999) is now Senior Scientist at The National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL)
    - Banavara Shashikanth (Thesis1998) is now Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at New Mexico State University
    - Ralph Axel (Thesis1996) is now Rates Strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    - Charles Bu (Thesis1992) is now Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College
    - Former lab member and M.S. student Brian Hurt M.D. is now in his residency program in Radiology at UC San Diego. He’s also developing his research program using AI for COVID-19 lung imaging analysis (here)
    - Undergraduate lab member Rajvir Dua is now a Trader for Optiver in their Amsterdam office
    - Undergraduate lab member Richelle Smith is now in the Ph.D. program in EE at Stanford
    - Undergraduate lab member and USC tennis star Ines Guinard is a Private Equity Associate at TPG Capital in San Francisco
    - Undergraduate lab member Jessica Freidin is a Manufacturing Engineer at General Atomics in San Diego
    - Undergraduate lab member Juliana Porter is an Advisory Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco

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