Our People
Leadership

Wael AbdAlmageed
Founding Director
Wael is a Research Associate Professor at the USC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Director at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Mohamed Hussein
CO-DIRECTOR
Mohamed is a Computer Scientist and Research Lead at the USC Information Sciences Institute‘s Artificial Intelligence Division and an Associate Professor (on leave) at Alexandria University, Egypt.

Leonidas Spinoulas
CO-DIRECTOR
Leonidas is a Computer Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute‘s Artificial Intelligence Division.
Staff

Huaigu Cao
Computer Scientist
Huaigu is a Computer Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Joe Mathai
RESEARCH PROGRAMMER||
Joe is a Research Programmer II at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Xujun Peng
RESEARCH PROGRAMMER ||
Xujun is a Research Programmer II at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
PhD students

Hanchen Xie
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Hanchen is a Ph.D. student at the USC Department of Computer Science and a Graduate Research Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Ekraam Sabir
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Sabir is a Graduate Student Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Jiaxin Cheng
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Cheng is a Graduate Research Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Jiageng Zhu
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Jiageng is a Graduate Research Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Hayley Song
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Hayley is a Graduate Research Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
Master students

Sarvani Deekshitula
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANT
Sarvani is a Graduate Student Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Apurva Dani
AI RESEARCHER
Apurva is an AI Researcher at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Nishant Tharani
STUDENT RESEARCHER
Nishant is an AI Researcher at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Rhea Anand
COMPUTER VISION RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Rhea is a Computer Vision Research Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Saurav Borse
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANT
Sourav is a Graduate Student Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Aditya Mahesh Kapadia
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANT
Aditya is a Graduate Student Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
Administration

Maura Covaci
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Maura is an Administrative Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
Alumni

Iacopo Masi
ALUMNI
Iacopo was a Computer Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Ayush Jaiswal
Almni
Ayush was a Research Assistant at the USC Information Sciences Institute.