USC PhD Aristotelis Papadopoulos awarded Endowed Fellowship

Friday, January 24, 2020

Aristotelis-Angelos Papadopoulos, a third-year PhD student in Electrical Engineering at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has been awarded the Myronis Endowed PhD Fellowship for advanced students. The Myronis Fellowship is designed for students who are making progress in their PhD degree in terms of both quality of work and timing with a preference to Greek students in the fields of Engineering, Medicine, Physics or Chemistry. Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He discovered ...

Carlos Otero Advances PSR Freight Research

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Meet University of California, Davis Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carlos Otero. Otero is currently involved in research projects sponsored by the Pacific Southwest Region 9 UTC, and he is making a valuable contribution to the work. Otero holds both a BA and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla-Colombia, where he also served as an Assistant Professor. Otero shares that teaching is one of his biggest ...

Jacob Wasserman joins UCLA ITS

Thursday, January 2, 2020

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Research Project Manager Jacob Wasserman is a 2019 UCLA Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) graduate with concentrations in Transportation Policy and Planning and in Community Economic Development and Housing. Before coming to UCLA, he completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in both Political Science and History at Yale University. Wasserman began his full-time position at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies (UCLA ITS) in summer ...

WTS-OC Transportation Academy Inspires USC's Hanzhe Yang to Study Transportation Engineering

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Each year the Orange County Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS-OC) hosts the Transportation Academy, a two-week transportation immersion program for college students. And each year this event attracts more and more students interested in transportation. Second-year USC Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering student Hanzhe Yang was one of the students given the opportunity to attend this year’s Academy, held in Orange County in August. Yang has a broad spectrum of ...