AMI in the News
Stories from July 2009 - September 2009.
The University of Southern California’s 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 Joyita Dutta has been selected as an Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellow. The fellowships were established in 2008 to support and advance innovative cutting edge research in Bio-Engineering. Ms Dutta joins Jay Mung and Hsiu Cheng Hsu as the Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellows for 2009-2010. We offer our congratulations to Joyita Dutta and our best wishes for continued success to Jay Mung and Hsiu Cheng Hsu.
Joyita Dutta is developing a novel 3-D in vivo imaging system for fluorescence tomography. This work is being done in the laboratory of Dr. Richard M. Leahy (Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering) in collaboration with Dr. Simon Cherry at the University of California, Davis. She is developing theoretical computational methods for forward modeling and image reconstruction that will improve image resolution. Her approach to developing this system is both theoretical and practical. The Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Pre-doctoral Fellowship to Ms. Dutta is renewable on a yearly basis for up to two years.
AMI-USC would also like to thank the Members of 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.
(08-31-2009)
The Alfred Mann Institute at USC and Jonathan G. Lasch, PhD, Director of the Institute have been recognized with a prestigious award from the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (IEEE). They are the recipients of the 2009 Outstanding Corporate Service to the Engineering Community.
The award honors the Institute’s commitment to:
- Helping engineers be successful in launching new inventions,
- Supporting its engineering staff with further enhancement of their knowledge,
- Helping IEEE in its community with support to the IEEE local chapters.
The IEEE is a global non-profit, professional organization of 350,000 members, one of the largest in the word, with the objective of advancing innovation and technology in all fields of technical sciences that benefit humanity. The Alfred Mann Institute at USC was nominated by the IEEE Buenaventura Section, a very active IEEE group in the greater Los Angeles area and presented by Steven Johnson, Chair of the Buenaventura Section.
(08-24-2009)
Nathalie Gosset, Marketing and Business Development Manager at AMI, was the keynote speaker at the Business Council's Annual Economic Development Conference on June 18th. Her talk, titled: “Innovation – let’s be ready for it” discussed the vast space still open for innovation. It explained how to detect an emerging industry and how to plan education, research, and funding to support this new waves of solutions. The event was reported in the Monterey County Herald.
(07-01-2009)
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