Dr. Maryam Pishgar

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Biography

Maryam Pishgar is a Lecturer in Industrial Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, specializing in data analytics. She has earned her Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago, focusing on Industrial Engineering with an Operations Research concentration. Her research interests lie in Data Driven Decision Making (3DM) applications, particularly in the healthcare sector. Maryam's passion is utilizing process mining and machine learning to predict critical health outcomes from analyzing tabular and text data. She employs diffusion GAN models to generate deep-fake MRI images accurately. Before her role at USC, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Maryam is also the founder of Solix Data Driven Business Solution, a company dedicated to solving data analytics challenges for businesses.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Southern California

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:100
GRE General
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science
Application Checklist
  • Official transcripts
  • GRE General scores
  • TOEFL scores (International)
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Personal Statement
Specialization Notes

Requires general GRE for all graduate degrees.