| Other Profiles |
| Jean-Pierre Rwigema: Pioneering Innovator in Stem Cell Research at the USC School of Dentistry |
Jean-Pierre
Rwigema is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He has studied in South Africa and now continues his education at the USC School of Dentistry focusing his stem cell research on immortalized human fetal bone marrow and the possibilities it offers. |
| Michael Naimark - USC Interactive Media Professor Shooting to 'Flickerize' Google Earth |
Michael Naimark is a long time media artist and researcher. His work in new media has led to a collaboration of Google-proportions between the USC Interactive Media Division and Institute for Creative Technologies.
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| Bryan Stimmler: Pulling Double Duty in the USC School of Dentistry Research Labs |
Bryan Stimmler began his researching career by gathering samples in the rivers of the San Gabriel mountains. Now doing research that is more laboratory based, he is researching two different projects at the USC School of Dentistry.
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| Rungnapa Warotayanont, D.D.S - USC School of Dentistry Ph.D. Candidate Focusing on Stem Cell Research for Bone Formation |
Rungnapa Warotayanont is a Ph.D. candidate in Craniofacial Biology
program and a research assistant at the Center for Craniofacial Molecular
Biology (CCMB) at the USC School of Dentistry. Joining the Trojan Family from Thailand, Rungnapa's research is dedicated to stem cell research for bone formation.
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| LEAPFROG: USC Engineering Students Developing a Vehicle to Explore Lunar Ventures |
Based on the concept of creating a repeatable and low cost prototype
flight vehicle that simulates the key techniques required to descend
and land on the lunar surface, LEAPFROG is pioneered by USC Astronautical Engineering Students.
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| Mark Wilde: USC PhD Candidate Exploiting Quantum Mechanics As We Know It |
Mark Wilde is a PhD candidate in the Ming Hsieh department of Electrical Engineering at USC. He and his collaborators, Todd Brun and Hari Krovi, are exhausting novel ways to exploit quantum mechanics for quantum communications in the future.
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| Ivan Wong: USC Electrical Engineering Student, Web Entrepreneur and Innovator |
Ivan Wong is a masters student in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at USC. He is the entrepreneurial spirit behind Flixya.com, a social networking site that pays ad revenues to users.
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| Gerard Medioni: Computer Vision Contributor and Co-director of the USC Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems |
Professor Gérard Medioni has been at USC since 1983 after earning his MS and PhD in computer science. Technology developed by Prof. Medioni, licensed by Pasadena start-up Big Stage, enables users to create 3D digital avatars for all forms of digital media and can place them in the action.
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| thatgamecompany: Eight USC Alumni Creating Experimental Video Games for the SONY Playstation 3 Network |
Founded
in the Spring of 2006, thatgamecompany has landed a three-game deal with SONY
for the Playstation 3 Network creating experimental, innovation games, tapping
into different emotional experiences not offered in today's primary video game
market. |
| Ron Nguyen: USC Dental Student, Innovator, and Entrepreneur |
Ronald
Nguyen is a young dental student at the University
of Southern California'. Beginning with the common phrase, "why can't
they make this better?", a true
innovator, Ron pursued his idea and successfully developed a new dental
product, the Feather Light. |
| Ron Orr: The Innovator Behind 'Swim with Mike': A Scholarship Fund for Physically Challenged Athletes |
As the creator of "Swim
with Mike,' a fundraising swim-a-thon, Ron has overseen the accrual of $7.4
million in scholarship funds for physically challenged athletes, 69 student
athletes have received scholarships at universities throughout the country. Ron
received the President's Award for Staff Achievement at USC in 1992 and is a noted
national speaker on alcohol and drug education. |
| Project:Possibility : An Open Source Software Collaboration for the Disabled |
Project:Possibility is a nonprofit, community
service project committed to creating groundbreaking software for the disabled
community--for free. |
| Bahman Elyassi: USC Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Candidate and Creator of the Solid-State Oxygen Sensor for Automobiles |
Bahman Elyassi didn't realize that when he set out to create the miniaturized oxygen sensor he would win an international award, have a patent pending, publish four papers, and fall in love.
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| The Windfall Fund: Small Donations Today Equal Large Contributions Tomorrow |
The Windfall Fund
is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort between three USC undergraduate
students. Together, these young
innovators created The Windfall Fund, a charitable nonprofit that enables a person to make a small donation
today, and with 150 years of compounding interest, that small donation will
have a large charitable impact tomorrow. |
| Daniela Bleichmar: One of Smithsonian's “37 Under 36: America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences” |
A cultural historian of early modern science, Bleichmar's work focuses on the production and uses of
visual material in science and more.
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| Matt Harrison and Rand J.Getlin: USC Law School J.D. Candidates, Creatively Marketing Nonpartisan Policy to Everyone |
USC Law School J.D. Candidates, pioneering forces behind The Prometheus Institute
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| Sean Rad: USC Student and Internet Aficionado |
Sean Rad is an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. Gaining marketing and business experience working for various entertainment firms in Los Angeles, Sean has further experience from years of working with his family's business, ESI International, manufacturers and distributors of popular electronics brands such as Akai, Nakamichi, iSymphony, and Cellboost. |
| Chris Swain: Creating Video Games With Greater Emotional Experiences |
Co-founder and director of the EA Game Innovation Lab, Chris Swain is a game designer, entrepreneur, and co-author of the textbook Game Design Workshop.
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| Wei-Min Shen: Father of the SuperBot! |
Dr. Wei-Min Shen is the Director of Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory, the Associate Director of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, and a Research Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Southern California. Dr. Shen has more than 20 years of research experience. His current research interests include self-reconfigurable and metamorphic systems, autonomous robots, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Life Science. |
| Ari Levinson: Student, Photographer and Innovator |
USC Student Ari Levinson is making a name for
himself as one of Los Angeles's
premiere young photographers and innovators. Through his work, he is
hoping to create social change necessary to save the African wildlife
environment – raising money through the sales of his safari photographs to
preserve, educate and inspire. |
| Kenneth Nealson: Geobiology and Alternative Fuel |
Geobiologist Kenneth Nealson leads a USC College-based effort to develop bacteria-powered fuel cells that could act as remote, portable power supplies for a multitude of purposes. |
| W. Lewis Johnson: Interactive Learning Technologies |
Dr.
Johnson is also the current director of the Center for Advanced Research in
Technology for Education at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, where he is
principal investigator of the Tactical Language project. His work on Tactical
Language won him the DARPA's Significant Technical Achievement Award in 2005.
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| Roberta Diaz Brinton |
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Toxicology, Biology and Neurobiology
USC School
of Pharmacy
Director of the USC STAR Science Education Program |
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