It is said, that there is a greater chance of achieving personal fitness goals if one logs his or her progress – but what happens if you graph every exercise for one year? I tracked my fitness at USC for one whole year from March 21, 2017 to March 20, 2018, and here are the facts. I worked out 169 … Read More

Posted: April 27, 2017, 8:15pm   Anthony Joshua (United Kingdom) and Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) will face off this weekend in a heavyweight boxing championship. Anthony is only 27 years old and is facing a very seasoned and much older Klitschko who is 41 years of age. Fans, athletes, and sports writers around the world are making, changing and then remaking … Read More

Posted: April 18, 2017, 5:54pm If you came to USC from any other part of the country, then chances are you’ve had friends and family make jokes about California running out of water! It’s a joke particularly popular with people who live in frigid climates as there is hardly much else to poke fun at. Fortunately, the drought has officially … Read More

Posted: April 18, 2017, 5:35pm Last month a few of my friends and I competed at the Global Health Case Competition (GHCC) at USC, and although my team lost the competition, the winning group asked me to join their team to compete in the international GHCC in Emory University. The competition prompt was to address the overwhelming presence of mental … Read More

Posted: February 17, 2017, 2:27pm What if instead of going to your own classes or doing your own research you picked one day to do something completely different? The idea is probably either very exciting or very scary! But I got the opportunity to work in a totally new environment outside of Viterbi for a one-week contest. Photo: The team … Read More

Posted: December 14, 2016, 12:38pm My group recently finished the final project for CSCI 653:High Performance Computing and Simulations.  The class was structured around lectures which introduced more advanced topics in high performance computing and student led discussions of research papers.  One of the questions I hear from undergraduate students most often is about the difficulty of graduate courses.  Although … Read More

Posted: November 28, 2016, 2:13pm I try to bring most out-of-town visitors to LACMA, even the ones who don’t usually appreciate art as much as myself, because I think the museums capture a lot of LA’s culture.  I was lucky to go to LACMA on a rainy day especially because the Levitated Mass exhibit looked amazing with a cloudy sky … Read More

Posted: November 22, 2016, 4:47pm Typically, I use the afternoon slump as an excuse to soothe my sweet tooth by getting ice cream at Ground Zero before embarking on the ‘PhD walk’ back to the lab.  For those who are not familiar with the ‘PhD walk’ it is when a student wanders campus with a blank stare, trying very little … Read More

Posted: November 20, 2016, 7:30pm It did not take scientists very long to start using graphics cards to perform demanding scientific and engineering numerical simulations or even to connect multiple gaming consoles to build scientific computing clusters.  But for many years, technological developments fueled by the insatiable gaming community have had a strong impact in the scientific world.  Virtual reality … Read More

Posted: November 20, 2016, 6:55pm Having downtown LA in our backyard here at SC is awesome for a lot of different reasons.  I recommend people to check out the different districts especially when they come alive over the weekends.  The expo line metro is probably the best way to get into downtown, which can be challenging if you want to … Read More