Electrical Engineering

How cell phones can help us monitor our health

USC Viterbi Professor Cyrus Shahabi is developing an intelligent surveillance system that can help law enforcement detect and eradicate threats of mass destruction.

Students recognized for outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service

USC Viterbi Computer Scientist Undertakes Pioneering Quantum Computing Research

The Discovery Files explains how USC Viterbi-developed “Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing" works

USC Viterbi School of Engineering namesake is recognized for his innovations in communications technology.

Ben Reichardt discusses his co-authored Nature journal article on classical command of quantum systems

An award from DARPA puts the Viterbi School at the forefront of a new science frontier

Financial Engineering Program teaches graduate students the inner workings of global economics

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded USC more contracts than any other university in the nation.

Eun Sok Kim, chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, and Ph.D. candidate Qian Zhang discover a new way to convert the natural vibrational energy of bridges into electrical power.

USC Viterbi research team develops tool to control photo privacy online

Prof. Daniel Lidar's work in quantum computing is #30 in Discover's 100 Top Stories of 2012

USC students Jimmy Liu and Jiangyang Zhang created a new application that measures the traffic of one of USC’s most popular venues on campus: the Lyon Center.

USC Viterbi Professor Chris Kyriakakis is the founder of Audyssey, an innovative application that enhances the audio experience for listeners worldwide.

Recent research reveals how beatboxers turn their mouth, throat and voice into a percussion instrument.

Cioffi delivered his talk titled "Ubiquitous Cost-Effective Gigabit Per Second Broadband Access: It's Coming, And Not The Way You Think!" on February 28.

Shrikanth Narayanan researches the complexities of human vocal ability by scanning beatboxers with MRI's

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NBC’s Pete Williams reports USC Viterbi is one of a handful of schools in the nation developing cyber security curriculum and degrees.

Communications pioneer and mathematical genius Solomon Golomb receives the nation’s top honor for scientists

The emerging field of behavioral signal processing might hold the key to better couples' counseling

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos Lends Expert Observations on U.S.'s "Reverse Brain Drain" Conundrum

Professor John Slaughter recounts his childhood in segregated Topeka, Kansas and reflects on the continued need for diversity in engineering in America today.

USC and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum recently signed an agreement to renew the highly successful Viterbi-India summer research program at least until 2016

Happy New Year Message to the Viterbi family of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends!

President Obama to confer National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by U.S. government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors

USC gaming students unveil an impressive batch of games at USC Games' biannual Demo Day, now in its eighth year

A Viterbi Startup Seeks to Energize the Wine Industry with Electrical Pulses

Event marks 40th anniversary with distinguished speakers and friends

Kenneth Koo, chairman of the Tai Chong Cheang (TCC) Group, partners with USC Viterbi School of Engineering to form the TCC Institute for Emissions Reduction from Marine Diesel Engines (TIER-MDE), a multi-year corporate research partnership to reduce emissions from the shipping industry.

The third annual Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) promises to be the best ever - and most lucrative

Daniel Lidar, Azad Madni, and Andreas Molisch have been designated AAAS Fellows for their distinguished contributions to engineering.

At CSI's 30th anniversary celebration, keynote speaker Andrew Viterbi regales audience with an historical tour of the digital era

Interactive tools capturing behavior data show promise in understanding autism

Retrospective of An Inextricable Bond and the Legacy of Hughes Aircraft

From prosthetics to PTSD, Viterbi researchers advance the future of veterans’ care

Program director Krishna Nayak speaks about the Body Engineering Los Angeles GK-12 Program, which partners graduate students in science and engineering disciplines with K-12 teachers to improve science education and the skills of graduate students.

A team of Viterbi AME students, joined by students from UCLA and Cal State LA, won First Place at the AIAA 2011-2012 Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition with the proposal for "Ghost", a new stealth bomber

Viterbi School of Engineering Researchers are collaborating with Hong Kong’s Tai Chong Cheang (TCC) Group to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by marine diesel engines

Jose Roberto B. de Marca is the 2013 President Elect of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

The Astronaut Scholarship is the largest STEM merit award given in the United States

One of the outstanding engineers of the past century, Reed made fundamental contributions to digital computers, communications, and radar.

Raghu Raghavendra looked on as the latest crop of interns from top universities in India showed off research they did under top faculty mentors

The electrical engineering professor discusses the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center on Australia's RadioNational

The long list of Trojans competing in 2012 London Games goes up to 40.

Ming Hsieh Ph.D. student Yi Gai is co-author of a paper finding a new solution to old and tricky statistical problem, a method with possible applications in real world applications

USC Viterbi Professor Armani and Alumnus Gerkey '03 will be among 78 of "the nation's brightest young engineers" taking part in the 18th annual symposium this September.

A two-time "Jeopardy" champ with a master's in literature has morphed into a soon-to-be Ph.D. designer of serious video games. His passion? Adding complex, innovative puzzles to games.

Writer-Director Valerie Weiss Ph.D., Biophysics was a participant in Martin Gundersen's Catalyst Project aimed at bringing science and scientists into entertainment as subjects and participants

Helping undergraduates learn is a key Viterbi School focus — and Larry and Mark Redekopp are leading the way

The Ming Hsieh Institute has created a video chronicle of the second annual Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Research Festival

Hsieh Department faculty member Stephen Cronin's catalytic systems match frequencies of incoming light energy to electrical plasmon impulses on metal to create potential tools for energy sustainability

Ellis Meng, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is chosen as one of MD+DI’s 40 Medtech Innovators Under 40 for her entrepreneurship, leadership and research to advance medical micro-devices.

NPR talks to the electrical engineering professor and Audyssey CTO about how he's transforming the way people experience recorded sound.

As experts call for better use of the radio spectrum for wireless communications, the Information Sciences Institute research professor lends his thoughts.

And University Professor Solomon W. Golomb celebrated his 80th birthday May 30

William Wang, CEO of VIZIO, honored with Alumni Merit Award

Ming Hsieh and Dean Yannis C. Yortsos present awards for EE excellence

A rousing speech by alumnus Feng Deng galvanized graduate degree recipients gathered in Galen Hall

USC Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science C.-C. Jay Kuo has graduated 111 Ph.D. students since his Media Communications Lab’s inception in 1989.

The TCC Institute for Emissions Reduction in Marine Diesel Engines presents a new approach to marine diesel engine emissions.

Forbes Magazine discusses ClariTrac, a medical device that improves efficiency of biopsies for radiologists, developed by a team of USC Viterbi graduate students.

Alan Willner receives a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2012-2013.

Daniel Lidar and a team of researchers from around the world built the tiny computer and published their results in Nature.

The Office of Naval Research awards three faculty members with the Young Investigator Program award.

The professor and behavioral informatics pioneer discusses Microsoft's new software, as well as his own research on speech translation systems.

Princeton's Sergio Verdú reunites with USC student daughter, Viterbi School professor protegée, and many distinguished colleagues

The electrical engineering professor spoke as part of the NAE's Gilbreth Lectures, which recognize outstanding young engineers.

Wired talks to Daniel Lidar and others about D-Wave's work in quantum computing, including the machine now at USC's Information Sciences Institute.

Krishna Nayak will work with three graduate fellows developing new Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) resources in and for local schools

Lidar, Scientific Director of the USC Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, provides what the hosts of KPFK's "Digital Culture" deem "the best explanation of quantum computing ever."

The distinguished university professor and communications theory specialist adds Sigma Xi's highest honor to his list of accomplishments.

Willner is a Fellow of five organizations, the highest ranking of any professional society

A mobile laboratory: USC Viterbi’s new Audi smart car sparks ideas on intelligent parking, outwitting traffic and personalizing the driving experience.

TCC Chairman Kenneth Koo: "USC seems to be offering the best hope for both the industry and the environment.”

Here Came the Sun: Alice C. Parker and Gordon Roesler's Alternative Energy class puts on a brilliantly lit and highly successful demo

Viterbi team earns ticket to Warsaw to compete with world’s best student computer programmers

USC Center for Geothermal Studies Director Fred Aminzadeh will work with the Institut Teknologi Bandung to train specialists

Alums gathered to network, share fond memories and learn about current research and work taking place at USC Viterbi.

Recent Hsieh Department Ph.D. Zungho Zun is lead author of a paper on using Arterial Spin Labeling (ASR) to image cardiac muscle blood flow

Chosen through a faculty-led selection process, the five scholars will receive mentorship and funding.

The IRIS Context Tracker system keeps loose track of multiple similar areas in a changing image to reliably find the right motorcycle, pedestrian or baby

CNN.com reports — after 42 years of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, electrical engineer Abdurrahim El-Keib (MS EE '76) will navigate Libya's future.

USC; Lockheed Martin, Inc.; and D-Wave Systems, Inc.; have teamed up to establish the first operational quantum computer at an academic institution at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute.

Doctoral student Brandon Franzke is the co-author, with Professor Bart Kosko, of a paper that shows how noise energy can power certain important processes.

Viterbi professor Shri Narayanan's team receives an international award for a program that analyzes speech to detect alcohol consumption by speakers

The Economic Times interviews Gérard Medioni at length for a story about "How Image Processing Will Move the World"

Shrikanth Narayanan is intensively developing new ways to use information technology to understand non-verbal action in children with ASD, couples and other subjects

Expansion of the iPodia network to the subcontinent is on the agenda, as well as recruitment of USC engineering alumni as faculty

John "Jack" Marburger (1941-2011) was a gifted theoretical physicist who had a major impact on USC engineering, recalls the USC Viterbi School's Martin Gundersen

Center for Energy Nanoscience director and USC Viterbi Professor Dan Dapkus welcomed researchers from 18 teams researching new ways to turn light into energy and energy into light

"We're using optics to enable higher capacity communications ... to get gigabits to every access point," said Alan Willner in a USC News report on the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).

A special supplement on "Inventing the Future" features the School's "Guide Vest" for the visually impaired, explained in detail by co-inventor Gérard Medioni

The Viterbi School expert on machine-to-machine communication discusses how academic research penetrates — often slowly — industrial and commercial applications

Viterbi School faculty and staff filled Town and Gown to hear their dean share a stirring list of accomplishments and set a lofty goal

Yannis Yortsos, Guiseppe Caire (EE), Michael Gruntman (ASTE), Qiang Huang(ISE), Bhaskar Krishnamachari (EE/CS), Aristides Requicha (CS/EE) and Milind Tambe (CS) honored

An extensive feature in The New York Times focuses on the "psychoacoustics" work of the Ming Hsieh Department professor, who is also the founder and chief technical officer of Audyssey Laboratories.

Algorithms for next gen wireless networks and improvements in real-time computer simulations put two Viterbi researchers into the latest Technology Review list of top under-35 innovators