Graduate Studies Synthesis
Three years of USC graduate work, organized by research curiosity rather than by course.
Coursework from USC Iovine & Young, Viterbi, and Marshall — distilled into five themes, eight essays, and a growing library of prototypes and artifacts.
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Themes
Data, Models & Decisions
From exploratory notebooks to business decisions.
Product, Prototype & Design
Tangible artifacts from concept through critique.
Systems & Operations
How organizations actually run.
Health, Ethics & Society
Regulated-domain work and the frameworks it demands.
Research & Directed Study
Longer-form investigations that don't belong to a single course.
Recent essays
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Leveraging multiple machine learning models to gain insights into evolving customer behavior during the transition to a post-pandemic new normal
Dec 8, 2022
Pandemic-era signal in consumer data: what Peloton's rise and reversal reveal about subscription retention when behavior snaps back.
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Exploring the Intersection of GANs Technology, and Right of Publicity Law: A New Paradigm for Publicity and a Potential Headache for Lawyers
Jun 21, 2022
On how generative adversarial networks are outrunning the Right of Publicity — and what a new legal paradigm might look like.
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How Walmart became a force for low prices through operations management and the supply chain challenges it faces post-pandemic
Jul 11, 2021
How Walmart turned operational discipline — logistics, supplier power, technology — into a durable low-price engine.
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How the Apple Newton’s failure formed a foundation for the iPhone’s market success.
Jun 20, 2021
Reading the Apple Newton not as a failure but as the groundwork that made the iPhone commercially possible.