Navapat Nananukul
Research Assistant in AICS Ph.D. Student, Industrial & Systems Engineering, USC
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People
AICS brings together faculty, students, and research interns working across artificial intelligence, network science, and computational social science.
Mayank Kejriwal
Director · Research Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, USC
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (2016). Mayank's research focuses on knowledge graphs, large language models, and AI for social good — with applied programs in public health, computational social science, and human trafficking.
We are always looking for good collaborations, directed-research students, and interns.
If you're interested, drop us a note.
Research group
Yidan Sun
Research Assistant in AICS Ph.D. Student, Industrial & Systems Engineering, USC
Zhisheng Tang
Research Assistant in AICS Ph.D. Student, Industrial & Systems Engineering, USC
Master's students
- Daiqi He — M.S. Analytics, USC
- Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan — M.S. Computer Science, USC
Undergraduate students
- Cole Gawin — B.S. Cognitive Science, USC
- Richard Joungyoon Kim — B.S. Computer Science & Business Administration, USC
Alumni
AICS has been fortunate to host many talented research contributors and students over the years.
PhD alumni · 1
- Ke Shen — Industrial & Systems Engineering, USC, Ph.D. (2025)
Master's alumni · 40
- Vishal Patil — USC, Master's
- Min-Hsueh Chiu — Research Engineer, ISI/USC, Master's
- Shree Vaishnavi Bacha — USC, Master's
- Revanth Yamani — USC, Master's
- Yining Ma — USC, Master's
- Khanin Sisaengsuwanchai — USC, Master's
- Zhijie Lin — USC, Master's
- Yongyi Ji — USC, Master's
- Sara Melotte — USC, Master's
- Akarsh Nagaraj — USC, Master's
- Yuesheng Luo — USC, Master's
- Kyle Wang — USC, Master's
- Hongyu Li — USC, Master's
- Lu Wang — USC, Master's
- Shilpa Thomas — USC, Master's
- Akarsh Dang — USC, Master's
- Jiayuan Ding — USC, Master's
- Ravi Kiran Selvam — USC, Master's
- Minda Hu — USC, Master's
- Peilin Zhou — USC, Master's
- Shuo Zhang — USC, Master's
- Yao Gu — USC, Master's
- Mozhdeh Gheini — USC, Master's
- Fan Pan — USC, Master's
- Zihao Zhai — USC, Master's
- Haotian Zhang — USC, Master's
- Rahul Kapoor — USC, Master's
- Yixiang Yao — USC, Master's
- Pulkit Manocha — USC, Master's
- Jing Peng — USC, Master's
- Qiaozhi Song — USC, Master's
- Daye Nam — USC, Master's
- Runqi Shao — USC, Master's
- I-Hui Huang — USC, Master's
- Fanghao Luo — USC, Master's
- Pratik Kabara — USC, Master's
- Shixiang Zhu — USC, Master's
- Xin Huang — USC, Master's
- Xuefeng Yan — USC, Master's
- Jianheng Hou — USC, Master's
Undergraduate & high-school alumni · 13
- Erica Okeh — Howard University, Undergraduate
- John Lim — Northwestern, Undergraduate
- Adin Aberbach — Swarthmore, Undergraduate
- Anik Mandal — IIT Kharagpur, Undergraduate
- David Cody Lingan — Michigan State, Undergraduate
- Junyu Ren — Tsinghua, Undergraduate
- Bruce Deng — High School, Intern
- Gwen Fang — USC, Undergraduate
- Stephanie Kim — University of Chicago, Undergraduate
- Maia Nkonabang — USC, Undergraduate
- Daisy Zhou — USC, Undergraduate
- Herry Wang — USC, Undergraduate
- Sanya Khatter — USC, Undergraduate
Lab in action
Moments from research events, conferences, retreats, group lunches, and graduations.
