USC CAIS PhD Alumni

2024

  • Taoan Huang, PhD in computer science, Quantitative Researcher, Cubist Systematic Strategies
  • Laura Petry, PhD in social work, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
  • Shaddy Saba, PhD in social work, Assistant Professor, Constance and Martin Silver Center on Data Science and Social Equity, Silver School of Social Work, New York University

2023

  • Sina Aghaei, PhD in industrial and systems engineering, Postdoctoral Scholar at Public Impact Analytics Science Lab at Harvard University
  • Nina Christie, PhD in psychology, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico at Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions
  • Graham DiGuiseppi, PhD in social work, Associate Behavioral Scientist, RAND
  • Aaron Ferber, PhD in computer science, Postdoctoral Researcer, Cornell
  • Ninareh Mehrabi, PhD in computer science, Postdoctoral Scholar, Amazon Alexa

2022

  • Sarah Cooney, PhD in computer science, Assistant Professor, Villanova University
  • Aida Rahmattalabi, PhD in computer science, Research Scientist, Sony AI

2021

  • Amrita Gupta, PhD in computer science, Data Engineer/Scientist, Conservation Science Partners
  • Monique Holguin, PhD in social work, Co-Director, UCLA Medical-Financial Partnership
  • Joshua Rusow, PhD in social work, Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  • Ankur Srivastava, PhD in social work, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville

2020

  • Chyna Hill, PhD in social work, Postdoctoral Scholar and Senior User Experience Researcher, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work & Google
  • Caleb Robinson, PhD in computer science, Research Scientist, Microsoft AI for Earth

2019

  • Jaih Craddock, PhD in social work, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
  • Shahrzad Gholami, PhD in computer science, Research Scientist, Microsoft AI for Earth

2018

  • Sara McCarthy, PhD in computer science, Research Intern, Google
  • Aaron Schlenker, PhD in computer science, Facebook
  • Haifeng Xu, PhD in computer science, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard
  • Amulya Yadav, PhD in computer science, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
  • Amanda Yoshioka-Maxwell, PhD in social work, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa

2017

  • Benjamin Ford, PhD in computer science, Research Engineer/Data Scientist, Aptima Inc. 
  • Robin Petering, PhD in social work, Founder & CEO, Lens Co
  • Mee-Young Um, PhD in social work, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

USC CAIS PostDoc Alumni

2021

  • Masoumeh Khalkhali, postdoc in computer science