AMI at USC
The Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering
Doctoral Fellowships
The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (AMI-USC) are pleased to announce that Jay Mung, Hsiu-Cheng Hsu, and Ta-Shun Chu have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellowships. The Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (AMI-USC) established these PhD fellowships in the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering to support and advance cutting edge research in Bio-Engineering.
The three recipients were selected from a pool of highly qualified Ph.D. students nominated by the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (5 nominees), the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering (2 nominees), the Department of Computer Science (2 nominees) and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (2 nominees) in the Viterbi School of Engineering. All nominees proposed highly innovative device development projects.
Jay Mung is developing a high accuracy (≤ 2mm) ultrasonic navigation system for minimally invasive repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms in Dr. Jesse Yen’s (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering) laboratory. The novelty of this project lies in the fact that this ultrasonic localization tool is not based on an ultrasound imaging system, but instead acquires catheter location information which can then be displayed on an easily interpreted Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance (MR) image. The Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Pre-doctoral Fellowship to Mr. Mung is renewable on a yearly basis for up to three years.
Hsiu Cheng Hsu is developing a label-free microlaser sensor platform in Dr. Andrea Armani’s (Assistant Professor, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) laboratory. The novelty in this technology is in the development of an “active” optical resonant microcavity technology. This technology has the capability of characterizing the structural dynamics of biomolecules, their functional implications without labeling the biomolecule in real time. The Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Pre-doctoral Fellowship to Mr. Hsu is renewable on a yearly basis for up to two years.
Ta Shun Chu is developing a miniature CMOS sensor chip to remotely detect pulse rate blood pressure, and pulmonary ventilation rates of multiple individuals simultaneously. This work is being done in the laboratory of Dr. Hossein Hashemi (assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering). Mr. Chu is incorporating advances in radio frequency integrated circuit design that he spearheaded in Dr. Hashemi’s laboratory into his vision of a working prototype of the biometric sensor.
We offer our congratulations and best wishes for continued success to Jay Mung, Hsiu Cheng Hsu and Ta Shun Chu on being the inaugural Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellows.
AMI-USC would also like to thank the Members of the Selection Committee for their hard work and for representing the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, the office of the Vice Provost for Research Advancement, the Alfred Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering as well as AMI-USC.
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