During our 6th episode, we sit down with Gaurav Sukhatme, our first Viterbi faculty member to be on the podcast! Dr. Sukhatme is the chair of the computer science department, teaches a variety of undergraduate classes, and is involved with research in robotics. During our chat we discussed the structure of the computer science department at USC, the history of the computing field, programming experience, cool classes offered, and common misconceptions about computer science!

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