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IMAGINE•INNOVATE•INSPIRE

KATHLEEN KRAMER, PHD

RICK OLSON, PHD

ERIC JIANG, PHD

Truc Ngo, PhD, professor of industrial and systems engineering, was promoted to Vice Provost for Research and Administration. She was awarded the 2023 USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences Appreciation Award and named an alumna honoree for Celebrating Georgia Tech Women: Pathway of Progress. Jennifer Olsen, PhD, assistant professor of computer science, received the 2023–24 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (junior awardee) and named 2023–24 USD Changemaker Faculty Fellow. She presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting and delivered a talk at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Rick Olson, PhD, associate dean, has devoted three decades to USD’s engineering program. In Spring 2024, Ed Haney ’24 (ME) became the first recipient of the Rick Olson Endowed Scholarship, generously funded by Matthew Craig ’03 (ISyE) and his wife, Jessica. Venkat Shastri, PhD, De Sanctis professor of engineering and entrepreneurship and chair of electrical engineering, was honored on the 2024 TIME 100 Health list for his groundbreaking work as co founder and CEO of ALZpath Inc.

Eric Jiang, PhD, professor of computer science, served as program chair for the 2023 International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He collaborated with ACM to compile and publish the conference proceedings. Dr. Jiang continues serving on the editorial board of the International Journal of Intelligence Data Analysis . Imane Khalil, PhD, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of graduate programs, was promoted to full professor in Fall 2024. She also serves as the interim chair of the computer science department. Jae Kim, PhD, associate professor and chair of industrial and systems engineering, is serving his second year as department chair. He is deeply involved in developing engineering’s data science undergraduate degree and continues efforts to find innovative ways to decarbonize electric and transportation sectors to combat climate change. Kathleen Kramer, PhD, professor of electrical engineering, takes

Technology and Innovation Forum, organized by its International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and discussed future partnerships with Doreen Bogdan Martin, ITU’s first woman secretary general. Susan M. Lord, PhD, professor and chair of integrated engineering, and Austin Peters ’22 published, “ ‘These different ideas, traditions, and values make my thinking unique and creative’: Bringing Native Hawaiian ways of knowing to engineering education,” in the IEEE Transactions on Education . Dr. Lord was a speaker at The Ohio State University, Tufts University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and presented at USD’s 2024 Lighting the Way Forward: The Future of Catholic Higher Education in a Changing World conference. Nadieh Moghadam, PhD, assistant professor of electrical engineering, received the Postdoctoral Recruit Grant Award for “Strategic Integration of Data-Centric AI for Enhancing Machine Learning in High-Cost Biomedical Environments.” She presented a paper at the International ​ Conference on Computing Networks and Communications 2024, “Detecting and Counteracting Adversaries in Wireless Multicast over Fading Channels.”

on her new role as the global 2024 president-elect of IEEE on Jan. 1, 2025. She presented as a key stakeholder at the 2024 United Nations’ Science,