2014

USC Viterbi startup VNTANA delivers an unparalleled entertainment experience with industry-leading holographic technology

"Athena," the first humanoid robot with its own airline ticket, travels from USC Viterbi to the Max Planck Institute

Inaugural Charles Vest Scholar, Alessandro Ticchi, applies computer thinking to brain function, predicting causes and consequences of human behavior

Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Constantinos Sioutas rewarded for his research in aerosol science.

USC Viterbi researchers demonstrate the future of security at DHS event

Behrokh Khoshnevis, Alan Willner and Mark Thompson named as fellows by the stellar group of scientists

Dean Yortsos, Prem Natarajan and Raghu Raghavendra visit India for the yearly India Advisory Board meeting

USC Students exhibit their creations at the USC Games Demo Day and the GamePipe Laboratory Fall Showcase

Engineering students participate in a traditional Chinese sport

Dean Yortsos meets with the China and East Asia Advisory Boards, helps establish Entrepreneur Executive Club

CS Prof. Paul Debevec from USC ICT helps create the first 3D presidential portrait

"Hour of Code" encourages everyone to write a few lines of code.

Maker of an artificial retina developed by BME professor Mark Humayun makes IPO

The Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) kicked off Nov. 20 with a gathering of engineer entrepreneurs and their mentors.

Viterbi computer scientists create a virtual audience for public speaking training.

For the fourth consecutive year, the USC computer programming team has won first place in the "Pac-12 South" computer programming competition.

Hacking marathon at USC provides a gathering space for both beginning and expert hackers

Krishna Nayak, Michael Khoo and Sally Ward develop revolutionary new tools to see inside the airway of pediatric sleep apnea patients

Costas Synolakis debunks myth that islands protect the mainland from tsunamis

Air Force pilot Brendan Ross credits USC Viterbi’s DEN program with allowing him to pursue a master’s degree from a land far, far away.

Joseph Greenfield trains future engineers using peanut butter and jelly.

Stephanie Chow and Stephen Yortsos combined research on Asiana Flight 214 and have put themselves squarely in the midst of an aviation industry-wide discussion

Researchers from across campus collaborate to visualize and study brains as they form memories

Ellis Meng is the new chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering

USC ISI's John Heidemann tracks the Internet's global "sleep" cycle

Five of the 10 new companies coming out of the inaugural USC Viterbi Startup Garage have raised a total of nearly $6 million in follow-on capital.

From drones to 3D printers: “impressed” SEC Commissioner Kara Stein visits USC Viterbi Startup Garage, talks fundraising for start-ups

Josh Bigelow started a multimillion-dollar company in his dorm room to help USC’s transit buses run on time.

Potential entrepreneurs from around the country leave labs and classrooms behind to come to USC’s “I-Node” in hopes of turning ideas into startups

Gary K. Michelson declares his support for USC’s efforts to boost biomedical research in Los Angeles.

USC ISI's John Heidemann maps the Internet's 'sleep' patterns across the globe

USC Viterbi’s new Hacker House aims to create a shared collective to bring innovators together.

USC Viterbi startup gives mobile users a new level of access to their cities of choice from their devices

$23 million in awards creates two Centers of Excellence and establishes USC as a hub for understanding the brain through data mining

Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) wins an unprecedented fourth consecutive INTERSPEECH ComParE award, its fifth in the last six years

Ted Berger, Min-Chi Hsiao and team have developed a "to-go" box to transport human brain samples to the lab in good condition

Behrokh Khoshnevis' large-scale 3-D printing technology wins the Grand Prize among 1000+ competitors

USC biomedical engineers, neurologists and neurosurgeons develop new methods to advance the study of human brains and epilepsy

The DETER Project, now in its 10th year, serves more than 4,400 researchers and students around the world

The USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight helps K-12 students and teachers connect core science to engineering's exciting breakthroughs

Mark Humayun helps blind patients regain eyesight with the Argus II

Francisco Valero-Cuevas and colleagues combine simulated neurons to inform the truly versatile and dexterous prosthetics and robots of the future

Kristina Lerman explores the friendship paradox via social media data

Vasilis Marmarelis's disruptive innovation for tissue imaging will change how breast cancer is detected

Alan Willner and research partners discover a new way to send info via radio waves

Noah Malmstadt and his team create modular components to make building microfluidic systems easy

Trojan Family will miss USC Viterbi senior lecturer

WEF names Andrea Armani one of 30 “exceptional scientists under 40” in the world, following Gerald Loeb’s honor as Tech Pioneer 2014.

The engineering school's major accomplishments over the past decade and the vision for the future were highlighted

New building blocks take microfluidics from flat to 3-D quickly and easily

Alan Willner and team reach transmission speeds of 32 gigabits per second

Clifford Neuman discusses online data privacy and security following the recent celebrity photo hack

USC Viterbi Professor Mark Redekopp educates students while entertaining them

A $10-million grant from NIH funds a much-needed craniofacial research database

Armani Lab creates optical sensor that can distinguish between carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide

Constantinos Sioutas conducts research on e-cigarette emissions

Maja Matarić and her team show that socially-assistive robots can help kids with ASD learn imitation behavior

New start-up is the latest success story from HTE@USC, USC's unique four-year collaboration between doctors and engineers

Constantinos Sioutas and team find e-cig second-hand smoke contains increased levels of toxic metals

Socially-assistive robots help children with autism learn imitative behavior with 'graded cueing'

Professor John Choma, In Memoriam

George Ban-Weiss, Megan McCain and Maryam Shanechi are recognized on MIT Technology Review’s Annual Innovators Under 35 list

Top 35 Global Innovator: Assistant Professor Maryam Shanechi included in 2014 MIT TR35 for work in brain-machine interfaces

Top 35 Global Innovator: George Ban-Weiss taps his creativity to distinguish himself academically and musically.

Top 35 Global Innovator: Heart disease claimed nearly 600,000 lives last year; Megan McCain’s research replicates those effects on a 2.5 cm “organ-on-chip.”

Ali Abbas to Lead Department of Homeland Security Research Center of Excellence at USC

Port of LA's former Executive Director is appointed Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering

2014 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp: USC Viterbi hosts two-week summer science camp for middle school students.

Prof. Emeritus Gerald Nadler, in memoriam

Alumnus Fred Cohen coined the term in a USC Viterbi class back in 1983

Entrepreneurship at USC Viterbi gets a boost thanks to grant funding

Robots reign at the 2014 Global Conference on Educational Robotics held at USC

The venture accelerator for engineering-led startups aims to produce the Next Big Thing

Graduate Student Simin Mehrabani creates award-winning ultraviolet sensor.

Computer science professor Shang-Hua Teng is named a 2014 Simons Investigator

“Young star” wanted to record the world, then make it better

Answers from one of this year's Tommy Award winners

The Aerospace Corporation CEO Wanda Austin on mentors, management and girls in STEM

On a new episode of Popcorn and Jetpacks, find out more about Professor Armani

Provost Associate Professor Terence Sanger builds models of how the brain controls muscles to help children with movement disorders

Petroleum Engineer Taps DEN@Viterbi To Access New Reserves

Twenty gifted high school students attended USC's campus for a week to learn about energy resources

One Trojan doubles as an electrical engineering major and a ballet dancer

The ARK, which a USC Viterbi alumnus helped create, could change the way consumers charge their cell phones.

USC Viterbi remembers long-time staff member Mary Francis, who died of lung cancer.

USC Racing successfully competes in ​all events at ​Formula SAE Lincoln.

Starting with the streets, Ketan Savla wants to make entire cities smarter

Gift by Trustee and alumnus Andrew Viterbi and wife Erna will support engineering and genocide studies

USC ICT and The Smithsonian create the first 3D portrait of a sitting president

Kristina Lerman explains why lackluster content might get more recommendations than good on social media

Andrew Viterbi and his wife Erna add to their legacy of philanthropy with a generous $15 million gift to boost scholarship in engineering and genocide studies

Chongwu Zhou builds a flexible hybrid circuit for chips using carbon nanotubes instead of silicon

A new flexible and energy-efficient hybrid circuit using carbon nanotubes has big implications for the future of electronics

Roberts' research focuses on the chemical biology of protein synthesis. His term as Chair will begin in July

Webpage position reigns in peer recommendation of online content on sites like Reddit

During this year's successful conference, Professor Madni recognized with Lifetime Achievement Award

USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute focuses on building a better power grid

An ambitious high school student joins Professor Armani’s lab and wins big at the Intel Science Fair

USC Viterbi School Dean Yannis Yortsos is the newest associate member of Greece's national academy

Ramo received the patent at the age of 100.

USC Viterbi Alumnus Col. Michael Price leads efforts to build a better Afghanistan

The inaugural Fleischer Prize in Green Technology

2014 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors USC Viterbi’s newest Ph.D.s, best in doctoral research

At the USC Viterbi undergraduate commencement, students said hello to the future and goodbye to their undergraduate school days.

At the USC Viterbi master’s graduation ceremony, students look to the future

Students are recognized and celebrated for their academic, leadership and service achievements

Students in the No. 1 ranked USC Games program showcase this year’s projects at Spring Demo Day 2014

Tracy Fullerton appointed Director of USC Games, a collaboration between SCA’s Interactive Media & Games Division and USC Viterbi's Computer Science Department

DEN@Viterbi Student Spotlight

The Ming Hsieh Institute Hosts Oral History Interview with Bob Scholtz

On May 6, USC alumnus and former test pilot William H. Dana passed away at the age of 83

On the 10-year anniversary of the Viterbi naming gift, Dean Yortsos highlights top talent that has made USC Viterbi "one of nation’s best and most dynamic."

Scholars from USC Viterbi and China’s prestigious Tsinghua University (THU) gathered in Los Angeles for Symposium

Innovation abounds at 6th annual KIUEL Senior Design Expo

How Shri Narayanan will use laughter to help diagnose and treat autism

CREATE Celebrates 10 Years of Counter-Terrorism Research

On it's 25th anniversary, the AeroDesign Team won the Global Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Student Design/Build/Fly Competition

USC Viterbi Hosts Los Angeles Regional Botball Tournament

In a new twist, the 36th Annual Viterbi Awards spotlights winners of this year’s Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition.

2014 is the largest class yet of National Science Foundation CAREER award winners in recent school history

Launched out of USC Viterbi Startup Garage, Taggle connects print shops and customers to streamline the custom apparel industry

iPodia Successfully Launched in India

Mahta Moghaddam and her team monitor soil moisture using wireless sensors and radars

Social Clues, a video game created by a team of USC Viterbi engineers, Marshall School MBAs and others aims to educate autistic children while entertaining them.

Michael Kassner named USC Viterbi's inaugural Choong Hoon Cho Chair in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

USC Viterbi Professor Pin Wang Hopes to Cure HIV and Cancer with Viral Vectors

USC Viterbi opens its doors to the public for its annual Robotics Open House

At the 2014 USC Viterbi Robotics Open House, children from local schools get to meet the family of robots at USC Viterbi.

With a $100 device, a USC Viterbi team can put you in a 3D video game

Students studying healthcare operations spent their spring break improving efficiency at Rancho Mirage hospital

Joseph Touch comments on what the Internet might look like in 2025

USC Viterbi professor Chongwu Zhou and research team develop cheap, better-performing silicon anode and sulfur-based cathode for Li-batteries

Stories are the key to helping computers think and interpret new situations

Computer science student Nicky Guangorena programs and plays

Professor Noah Malmstadt goes back to seventh grade

Summer program exposes top students from India to life as a Ph.D. student at USC Viterbi

Northrop Grumman Corporation awards scholarship to computer science student Stephanie Aceves

USC Viterbi’s Michael Kassner becomes the inaugural Choong Hoon Cho Chair in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

IMSC’s annual retreat features innovative transportation, social media and security projects that leverage Big Data.

USC Aviation Safety & Security Program experts comment on missing Malaysian airliner

What steps you can take to keep your cyber life secure

How to build our national defense in the escalating struggle against cyber terrorism and espionage.

Seven teams advance to the finals in this $110,000 business plan competition for USC Viterbi students and their collaborators.

Fellowship awarded for groundbreaking work on software for social networks.

New endowment will fund trips to Washington, D.C. and Sacramento for USC Viterbi Ph.D. students and junior faculty members to meet with policymakers.

USC Viterbi’s dean joins Google’s Eric Schmidt, author Deepak Chopra and other thought-leaders at Oasis: The Montgomery Summit.

Technologies under development by USC computer scientists could help in the fight against underage sex trafficking in the United States.

Kelly Sanders, a new assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, came to Los Angeles because she shouldn’t be able to.

"DARPA strives to be more nimble in a world of rapid technological change."

A new iPodia course connects USC Viterbi and University of São Paulo engineering students to enhance learning and create a classroom without borders.

USC Viterbi professor wins top honor For iPodia initiative, long-term contributions to profession

Greg Grabarek studies biomedical engineering and comedy.

New academy members receive engineering's highest honors

Graduate student Thomas Cummins exemplifies the entrepreneurial spirit in HTE@USC

Bo Jin, a teaching assistant in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the “Award for Excellence in Teaching” by the USC Office of the Provost for consistent excellence in the classroom.

USC Viterbi Students encouraged to apply

He and his wife's namesake award recognizes robotics students’ service.

PAWS, an “intelligently” randomized scheduling system, holds the promise to frustrate poachers in Uganda and elsewhere.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has partnered with Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely to create applications and educational tools that help engage the younger generation and bolster interest in the arts

Developed by USC Viterbi students, InDepth works like a stud finder for veins and arteries

Amy Childress has developed an innovative and sustainable approach to water problems in Southern California. Her work also has global implications.

Graduate student Juan Fasola teaches robots how to respond to complex requests

In his new book, David Agus offers health advice on how to live a long life

Constantinos Sioutas finds that financial crisis leads to more pollution

Gary Michelson donates $50 million to found center on engineering and life science

Research by Gerald Loeb, Alice Parker, Chongwu Zhou, Behrokh Khoshnevis, and Ted Berger featured on the Science Channel

USC Viterbi partners with Talon to address cyber security issues and host educational programs

USC Viterbi Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis is developing the technology to auto-build full-scale civil structures

Using Microwaves to Diagnose and Treat Cancer

$50 Million Naming Gift Funds New Building for Research at the Intersection of Engineering, Biomedical Sciences and Medicine at USC

Armed with curiosity and flexibility, alumnus Vishal Sankhla seeks startup stardom

DEN@Viterbi again ranks as the top online CS program in North America