We invite all Yale, MIT, and Princeton alums to join us for our next Los Angeles High Table mixer. Our High Table program is aimed at showcasing dynamic speakers in an intimate setting that facilitates connection with your fellow alumni.

This in-person event will feature MIT 2016 graduate alumnus and USC Research Assistant Professor Abigail Horn PhD'16, who will discuss her work harnessing big data to improve food systems and nutrition. Come learn how state-of-the-art computational modeling can enhance the safety and nutrition of what we eat, and stay to network with fellow alums!

Date:  Sunday, September 22nd
Time:  1:00 – 3:00pm PDT
Location:  Gardena office of LUV Systems. Address will be sent to all registrants.
Price:  $5 + potluck contribution
Event format:  30 min mingling, 60 min program featuring Dr. Abigail Horn, 60 min networking and discussion post-talk with potluck refreshments.

About the speaker:

Dr. Abigail Horn is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California where she works on harnessing big data to improve food systems and nutrition. Dr. Horn grew up in Brazil and Bethesda, Maryland and studied physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, where she developed models for the large-scale outbreaks of foodborne disease. Dr. Horn continued this line of work during several years in Germany, where she also applied her models to assist with the German government's foodborne illness investigation system. She returned to the US in 2019 where she began work at the University of Southern California on a project that successfully tracked diet-related diseases using smartphone data about visits to fast-food restaurants. During the pandemic, Dr. Horn also conducted modeling to estimate COVID-19 risk for various policy choices. She has been a Research Assistant Professor at USC since 2022.