The USC Vitebi School of Engineering boasts outstandng faculty. Thirty of its 164 tenured or tenure-track members joined USC in the last three years.
Viterbi's Faculty Roster Includes:
- Dr. Andrew Viterbi, for whom the school is named, holds a USC Presidential Chair and was honored with the 2007 National Medal of Science on Sept. 29, 2008.
- 49 endowed chairs and professorships
- 31 members of the National Academy of Engineering
- 7 members of the National Academy of Sciences
- 8 Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 4 Winners of The Shannon Award
- Over 50 winners of National Science Foundation
- Presidential and Career Awards
- The 2003 winner of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Turing Prize, often described as the “Nobel Prize in Computing”
- More than a third of the faculty have been elected fellows of their respective professional societies
