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Prof. Andrea Armani
@drarmani.bsky.social
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Living duality of careers: Prof of Engineering & Sr Director of Engineering; Fellow (Fella) of many technical societies; explores photonics, materials, & diagnostics; loves cats, dogs, chocolate, & family. Personal opinions. (Previously: @ProfArmani)
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Congratulations to Lexie Scholtz who just defended her PhD in BME! She's headed off on Monday to KLA to be an applications and packaging engineer!!

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Right after a successful PhD defense Image of the entire research lab celebrating Lexie Scholtz's defense
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Made some St. Patrick's Day treats for the team! Mini-chocolate torts (shaped like four leaf clovers) and orange sugar cookies (with green clovers painted on in sparkly dust).

May everyone have a little luck today! 🍀

@academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪
St. Patrick's Day themed chocolate torte and sugar cookies.
March 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Congratulations to Kylie Trettner who just defended her PhD in Chemical Engineering! We wish her all the best as she embarks on an exciting new journey as a scientific analyst in the VC world.
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Kylie Trettner immediately after completing her PhD defense!
March 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Valentine's exchange, lab style.

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Exchanging valentines Exchanging valentines
February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Having an amazing time at #PhotonicsWest! Watched an incredible series of talks on #quantum optics behaviors and devices and caught up with friends at a WiO event!

@spie.org 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Sile, Jess, and Andrea at Photonics West Rachel Grange and Andrea Armani at Photonics west Kartik and Andrea at photonics west
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Best part of conferences - catching up with former team members who are now rockstars!! 🌟

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Imran Cheema and Andrea Armani at Photonics West
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm.

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#lifegoals 🎉💡🧪
Celebratory cake highlighting 2024 achievements! Yasaman Moradi doing the honors and cutting the 2024 cake Photo of Yasaman Moradi's last team meeting at EMI
January 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Team bonding before the holiday break filled with creativity and laughter!

(Playing with clay)

🧪 #academicsky #teambonding
Student making things from clay. Team bonding activity - making things from clay. Little clay snowman
December 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Congratulations to #USC PhD student and group member Yasaman Moradi who just successfully defended her PhD in chemical engineering!!

🧪 #academicsky #PhDdone #engineering
Yasaman Moradi and Andrea Armani (her PhD advisor) right after Yasaman's successful PhD thesis defense on Dec 10, 2024.
December 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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First attempt at gingerbread and sugar cookies made over the weekend went well (as judged by my work colleagues). 🎉 🎄

#homemade #cookies
December 4, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Hi to all of my new followers and new Blueskiers(?)! Great to see everyone making the journey!

#cats #Academicsky
Cat in a box
November 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Had a wonderful time last night joining Nee, Sev, and Meredith on a panel celebrating NOVA's new 3-part engineering series "Building Stuff"! The third episode airs next Wednesday, & all episodes are available for free at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...
#STEM 🧪 #Academicsky
@pbs.org.web.brid.gy #NOVA
Image of panelists discussing engineering and new NOVA series
November 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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We have a living tree topper this year.

Maybe we'll just skip the ornaments.

#cat #cats 🐱
Cat in a Christmas tree Cat at the top of a Christmas tree
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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This amazing FREE series - which explores rockets, implantable devices, submarines, & more - is streaming now! What an incredible resource to inspire students to pursue #STEM! 🧪

Here's a "behind the scenes" photo of the filming.

@learnscience.org
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#engineering #SciComm
Picture of scientist filming a segment for NOVA on engineering.
November 14, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Better late than never, my team dressed up for Halloween - complete with plans!

#halloween2024 🎃
Team dressed up as minions and Gru
November 4, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Voting is a privilege and a responsibility.

Remember to carefully consider all candidates & propositions. You are asked to vote on many topics & positions beyond the President.

#IVoted  #Vote
Voting confirmation
October 29, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Just dropped my ballot off!

Make sure your voice and opinions are heard.

#IVoted  #vote  #IVotedEarly
Ballot Dropbox
October 27, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Celebrating 18 years together!

#anniversary #celebrating #datenight
Vase of flowers Couple eating dessert.
September 30, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #463,654!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #463,654, Andrea Armani ‪@drarmani.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 3, 2023"
September 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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After several (numerous) failures this weekend, I'm proud to say that I was able to make canneles (or caneles)!

(I forgot to take pictures of the end result - and they are all gone...)

#homemade #baking #pastry
Pictures of candles baking in oven. Pictures of candles baking in oven.
August 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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After many people quietly asked "are you on a call?", I've decided to just own my behavior.

(Maybe "muttering" is a better word. 😂)

#writing @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪💡
Note on office door. "I'm not on a call. I'm just writing a paper - and talking to myself. Feel free to interrupt. :)"
August 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Congratulations to USC Viterbi PhD student Jack Paulson who just passed his PhD screening exam. One hurdle down on his path to a PhD in Materials Science

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Headshot of Jack Paulson!
June 13, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Celebrated my 46th birthday by #hiking in the #Sierras! I've lived in CA for over 20yrs but never visited. Had an amazing time - even conquered some "moderate" trails w/ snow bridges and water crossings!! (w/ the guidance of my husband who has done much harder hikes).

#trail #wildlife #Mammoth
Top of Obsidian dome After hiking the rim of the Inyo Craters After hiking several snow bridges to reach Mammoth Rock Hiking the Methuselah trail in the Ancient Bristlecone Forest
June 1, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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This is Kylie's 1st *1st* author paper & Jeremy is a HS student. For both, this is a HUGE career milestone.
In addition, they demonstrated fearlessness in the pursuit of discovery. This is my lab's 1st foray into this field. It is always scary to be the "1st". 2/3
#proudmentor 🧪💡
Female engineer Kylie Student at science fair
March 28, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Congrats to @USCViterbi PhD student Kylie & Polytech HS student Jeremy! They use ML/AI to determine #PDAC spheroid *viability* just appeared in @aplbioeng! They also demonstrate a label-free longitudinal study.

But there's more this paper
Link: pubs.aip.org/aip/apb/arti...
1/3
Cartoon depicting ML algorithm for analyzing viability of spheroids.
March 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM