Yasser Khan joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor in 2022. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and his M.S. from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Dr. Khan completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Before joining USC, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Khan’s research centers on additive manufacturing and hardware-enabled AI, developing wearables, implantables, and ingestibles for precision health and psychiatry. He received the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the 2024 Packard Fellowship, the 2023 Google Research Award, the EECS departmental fellowship at UC Berkeley, the Discovery Scholarship and graduate fellowship at KAUST, and the Academic Excellence Scholarship at UT Dallas. With over 60 research papers published on leading platforms, Dr. Khan’s work has been featured by BBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and NSF News.
Awards and Achievements
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award ( 2025)
- Google Research Award ( 2023 )