2012

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

A USC Viterbi School delegation, led by Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, recently visited India to connect with alumni, explore partnerships and affirm the school's growing international presence.

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

The Viterbi India Board recently held its inaugural meeting, a reflection of the school's strong and deepening relationship with its Indian constituencies

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

Trojan Family members gather in India to network, party and dance

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.

Second Year Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate Awarded Coveted Teaching Award by USC Office of the Provost

USC Information Sciences Institute's collaboration to provide more detailed, more easily accessible information about museum’s online collection than has previously been possible.

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

Mitsubishi to provide 12 electric cars for the USC Smart Grid Living Laboratory

For the second consecutive year USC Viterbi School of Engineering computer science students placed first at the annual ACM Southern California Programming Contest, defeating teams across Southern California

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

A personal video message from Dean Yannis C. Yortsos

NIH awards USC team $1 million for fetal pacemaker - Professor Loeb collaborates with Keck School on 20 mm long prototype.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos discusses the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center housed at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute.

High school students from across the country completed projects in different engineering fields as part of a summer college course

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.

USC Teamcore Group/US Coast Guard researchers are awarded the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice at the INFORMS conference.

Chevron recently presented a $1 Million donation to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. This gift is added to the nearly $35 Million given to USC by Chevron's University Partnership Program over the past nine years.

A local Petroleum company donated $40,000 to USC in an effort to open doors in the petroleum industry for recent junior college graduates.

Media pioneers Steve Chen and Chad Hurley preach the gospel of adaptability to USC Viterbi freshmen

K-12 STEM outreach program will connect local teachers and students with USC engineering faculty and students

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

Stealing a page from Google’s playbook: AME professor predicts where cancer will go next.

New body tasked with threefold mission: advise, advocate and support Viterbi efforts in China and East Asia

USC's School of Engineering celebrated a 40 year milestone in delivering distance education. Attendees celebrated with discussions on the history and impact of the program and a tour of the studio classrooms themselves.

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

Norberto Grzywacz's lab is starting the second phase of its NIH-funded effort to create a wearable vision aid for Age-Related Macular Disorder patients

The kick-off event for the newly formed Viterbi Student Innovation Institute (VSI2) featured Mike Abbot, Ex VP of Engineering at Twitter and now General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in a fireside chat.

Malancha Gupta, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering has been selected to participate in this year’s Frontiers of Engineering Education, a symposium that brings together highly innovative educators at the forefront of creative learning methods.

ClearPath created by Professor Cyrus Shahabi and Ugur Demiryurek aims at providing the quickest and most accurate route for drivers who are tired of being stuck in traffic.

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

The size of a loaf of bread, Aeneas is the first nanosatellite able to track an object on the Earth's surface

Viterbi School researcher Malancha Gupta's lab is making robust plastic shells for hard-to-handle ionic liquids; the work shows promise for environmental and energy fields.

To capture the voices of our incoming class of undergraduate students, USC Viterbi posed the question, "When did you first fall in love with Engineering?"

Fariborz Maseeh's 2nd annual Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) awarded $50,000 to USC Viterbi medical startup team ClariTrac. The award will fund development costs for the team's needle-based breast biopsy device.

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

The professor of biomedical engineering has been awarded the new grant to further study on high ultrasonic transducer technology.

Ken Richardson, USC Viterbi alum and former president and COO of Hughes Aircraft Company, looks back on his time at Hughes and how our country’s emphasis on science and technology has changed during his lifetime.

Ph.D. students Charles DeVore and Hadi Meidani lauded at EMI/PMC 2012

USC-led team has designed a low-cost, easily-deployed method for detecting ADHD, Parkinson’s, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

SUMMER OF '69: Professor James Moore on the passing of Neil Armstrong, his boyhood idol from Auglaize County, Ohio

Young children have their early exposure in science and engineering through Iridesecent. They learn the science of musical instruments and make their own instruments.

Platinum Group Coatings, LLC, a participant in the second annual Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition, shows off its shiny new technology.

An assistant professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Becerik-Gerber marks the sixth TR35 distinction for USC Viterbi in the last four years.

NASA-JPL systems engineer and Viterbi School alumna on early influences and designing Curiosity's parachute

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

General purpose modeling software “Vega” will allow a wide range of users to simulate in real time

Jihie Kim and Erin Shaw are continuing to use interest in videogames as leverage in teaching math and collaborative skills to at-risk secondary students.

USC researchers show that men and women focus on different things when paying attention and are drawn away by different types of distractions

"These kids . . . will be our next astronauts, our next civil engineers, our next presidents of the United States."

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

The Viterbi School's Fred Aminzadeh will direct a wide ranging effort to answer the questions raised in a recent NRC report: “Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies"

USC Viterbi undergraduate students conduct combustion research experiment aboard NASA's retrofit Boeing 727-200 low-gravity flight simulator.

The USC-Chevron Frontiers of Energy Resources Summer Camp enters its fourth year of educating the next generation on the state of energy resources.

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

Department of Defense research award will allow a Willow Garage PR2 robot to become a permanent part of the USC robotics collection

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

USC students won prizes for mashup apps CareerGalaxy, Hugos and WhatsGoingOn, all created in a recent computer science course

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

The Viterbi School’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is playing a leading role in an effort to make earth science and geological research more effective, collaborative, and efficient.

iPodia partnership creates a virtual classroom that allows students from around the globe to collaborate and learn together

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.

Malancha Gupta, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science is awarded a Doctoral New Investigator grant from ACS PRF for her proposal, “Green Solventless Fabrication of Ionic Liquid/Polymer Composites Using Vapor Phase Polymerization”.

The prizewinning algorithm theorist looks forward to concentrating on computer science

On the 75th anniversary of her disappearance, experts with the USC Aviation Safety and Security Program reflect on Earhart’s fated last flight.

Entrepreneur and 2002 USC Viterbi valedictorian Ali Fakhari discusses deep diving into business. From life at Bain & Company, to Harvard Business School, Fakhari traces his path to WikiLoan and Ivy Venture Capital.

The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) began distributing the Epstein Department developed software packages June 12

New Master's Degree Program to focus on nuclear safety and security, launching online this fall

Alan Willner and team demonstrate that beams of light can be twisted and combined to transmit data at dramatically increased speeds

Professor Maja Matarić and Ph.D Research Fellow Ross Mead Demo Bandit the Socially Assistive Robot

The Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program recognizes Morteza Dehghani and Greg Ver Steeg

SC Racing team gear up for Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition with their stronger, faster and more reliable racecar

Robots equipped with tactile sensor better able to identify materials through touch than humans, enabling more useful prostheses

Professors Andrea Hodge and Jongseung Yoon to receive funding and mentoring to develop their research ideas.

USC Viterbi scientists to crunch the largest amount of basketball data ever gathered

Two engineering Ph.D. students, Ashley Maker and Ross Mead receive award for their work with undergraduates

Funded for three years, Sha's research will focus on adapting intelligent systems to unknown operating environments.

Students from Manual Arts High School place eighth in the Zero Robotics Autonomous Capture Challenge

Winner of 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and leader of USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) discusses his passion for space and a possible future in academia

USC Viterbi astronautics chair on the significance of the recent SpaceX flight

Middle and high schoolers from around Southern California bring their class-made robots to the USC campus

Milind Tambe, Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, receives an IBM Faculty Award for his proposal on a computational game-theoretic approach aimed at enhancing public safety, security and welfare.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering was named after the young graduate student he mentored many years ago

Sophisticated MRI imaging systems allow the Viterbi School's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab to decode the mechanisms of speech

Currently in its third year, the 2012 class addressed problems related to infrastructure in urban areas.

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

Viterbi School Valedictorian Heather Chen was one of many receiving awards May 8 at a ceremony in Town & Gown.

Senior year for some Viterbi students is a chance to create original projects, dealing with real-world problems and issues in “Capstone Classes” and then present them in the Archimedes Plaza

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

Viterbi’s 2012 undergraduate commencement: a valedictorian’s memories and Dr. Dan Barry’s 14-year journey to conquer space

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been funded by the FTA to complete a research study of the implementation of Metrolink’s new Positive Train Control (PTC) system

Research Professor Young Cho uses the cybersecurity testbed in his classes, providing students hands-on experience valuable to future employers

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.

Four Sisters share their Viterbi experience and where education at the school has led them

'The contract has been renewed and we expect during the next two years at least 10-15 more KOC employees to receive degrees via the DEN course delivery system'

2012 Faculty Staff Awards luncheon a time of celebration, renewal

Francisco Valero-Cuevas and collaborators from Harvard University probe the physiological hows of a balancing act

Two members of Viterbi’s senior class selected as members of the Order of the Torch, one of USC’s highest student accolades

Maged Dessouky's Epstein Department team calculates the contingencies: where to put lifesaving drugs and how much in each location

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

USC hosts a two-day workshop on Green Technology and Energy Informatics

"ISI has been an outstanding creative force in all aspects of digital science throughout the four decades since its founding," said USC Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos.

Five researchers in the Viterbi School's Integrated Media Systems Center will pool their skills to develop "event detection"

Milind Tambe, Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, receives the 2012 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for his 1997 paper “Towards Flexible Teamwork".

Computer Scientist Milind Tambe brought together more than 50 USC faculty to use fusions of mathematics, engineering and social science to solve complex and pressing problems. The group's first symposium took place Friday, April 20.

Sonny Astani Teaching Assistant Fabian Rojas Barrales won one of the three University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards at the University of Southern California’s 31st Annual Honors Convocation.

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

Fariborz Maseeh's 2nd annual Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) awards $50,000 to USC Viterbi medical startup team ClariTrac

The work will be funded by the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing.

Cyrus Shahabi hosted a day of exploration of the newest work at the Viterbi School's Integrated Media Systems Center, which he directs

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

The Occidental Petroleum Chairman and energy expert's appointment is held jointly in USC Viterbi and USC Dornsife

Chair Shanghua Teng and Professor Gaurav Sukhatme: "We are proud of our PhD students and the cutting-edge research they do"

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

Patrick Lynett leads the new research, which will look at a tsunami's "phantom currents" that arrive late and can cause considerable damage

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

Former Viterbi students enjoy night of cocktails and conversation in Bangalore.

For a blue ribbon audience, CMU President Jared Cohon explored the public expenses not paid for at the pump or on the power bill

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

The USC trustee and USC scholar receive one of engineering's highest professional distinctions.

During the visit, Dean Yortsos and others met with top universities, corporations, policymakers and alumni.

Viterbi students celebrate the 2012 Chinese New Year

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

The longtime Information Sciences Institute leader will continue to serve while a search committee finds a successor, and plans to maintain his association with the Viterbi School

A pioneer in biomedical imaging technology, Singh joined USC's Department of Radiology in 1977 and was jointly appointed in Biomedical Engineering in 1988.

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.

Newly named Industrial and Systems Engineering Department chair comes from success at Ohio State University

Brazilian-born specialist comes to Viterbi by way of MIT and Carnegie Mellon

Undergrads Rosa Lau and Christine Mercado win scholarships from the L.A. chapter of WTS