Labs

USC Biomechanics Research Lab (McNitt-Gray, PI) has provided sports biomechanics support for the USA national teams competing in the Olympic games. Most recently her team is working with USA Track and Field to support coaches and athletes in the horizontal jumps including those competing in London 2012 and Rio 2016. Research and support services include advancement of knowledge, communication of findings, integration of technology and data management, and immediate feedback in the field using instrumented runway at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA. We also travel to where the athletes train and compete to answer coach-driven questions. In the laboratory, we utilize experimental and model simulations to test research hypotheses to determine feasible solutions for individual athletes and personalize training plans. We are funded to continue support as our USA team prepares for Tokyo 2020.

Metabolic Research Lab (Turcotte, PI) lab conducts data-driven human performance research with Dr. Karen Kelly at the Naval Health Research Center to determine the physiological and nutritional parameters that might improve human performance in extremely fit individuals. The goal of her research is to uncover physiological determinants of top-level human performance.

Image Processing and Informatics (IPI) Laboratory (Liu, Brent, PI) collaborates with worldwide scientists to conduct pioneering Biomedical Imaging and Informatics Technologies research, trains and educates future scientists and physicians and participates in clinical R & D services related to medical imaging and informatics. The goal is to create a continuum of health care by exploiting emerging technologies that bridge across diagnosis and treatment.

Quantitative Evaluation and Design (QED) Reseach Group (Golubchik, PI) is active in the area of computer systems modeling, performance evaluation, and privacy engineering. We develop mathematical models and analysis methodologies for the efficient evaluation of systems at design time. We have successfully applied these techniques to improve P2P streaming systems, reduce power consumption in datacenters, schedule jobs across geo-distributed systems, evaluate reliability of software architectures, define pricing mechanisms for cloud services, design cyber-insurance markets.

USC Melady Lab (Liu, Yan, PI) develops machine learning and data mining algorithms for solving problems involving data with special structure, including time series, spatiotemporal data, and relational data. We work closely with domain experts to solve challenging problems and make significant impacts in computational biology, social media analysis, climate modeling, health care, and business intelligence.

Automatic Coordination of Teams (ACT) Lab (Ayanian, PI) is part of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center (RASC) at USC. ACT Lab conducts research in the area of coordinated multi-robot systems. The common theme behind our different research threads is that we provide theoretically sound solutions to practically motivated problems.

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center – Philip Requejo, PhD, Director of Rehabilitation Engineering, Rancho Research Institute, Downey, CA We also provide biomechanics research and support services include advancement of knowledge, communication of findings, integration of technology and data management, and immediate feedback in the field using instrumented manual wheelchairs in the Seating Center Clinic and assistive devices. We work with inpatient and outpatient clinicians to answer clinically-driven questions. In the laboratory, we utilize experimental and model simulations to test research hypotheses to determine feasible solutions for individual patients and personalize rehabilitation plans. Our research is currently funded by the Department of Defense and the Rancho Research Institute.