Archimedes Plaza on the USC Viterbi College of Engineering (Photograph credit score/Noe Montes)
Division of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Amene (Neda) Maghsoodi
Gabilan Assistant Professor
Becoming a member of in January 2023, Maghsoodi’s analysis lies on the interface of utilized mechanics, supplies science and biology and develops novel theoretical-computational fashions to elucidate advanced habits of sentimental buildings in engineering and biology. Maghsoodi was named a Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering by UC-Berkeley and acquired the Finest Paper Award within the ASME Worldwide Convention on Micro- and Nanosystems. She acquired her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from the College of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard College and later a postdoctoral scholar on the California Institute of Know-how.
Saakar Byahut
Lecturer
Byahut, a lecturer in aerospace and mechanical engineering, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. His analysis pursuits embody business aviation, plane design, fluid mechanics and engineering training. He acquired his Ph.D. right here at USC working with Professor Alejandra Uranga on electrical propulsion techniques for novel plane of the long run. At USC, he additionally advises the AeroDesign Team, which builds thrilling new remote-controlled plane every year to take part within the AIAA Design/Construct/Fly competitors.
Emma Singer
Lecturer
Singer, a lecturer in aerospace and mechanical engineering, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. Her analysis is broadly multidisciplinary, from micro-robotics to micro-fabrication, designing and constructing autonomous flying machines whereas finding out the fluid dynamic mechanisms that make these robotic “bugs” work. She acquired her B.S. in mechanical engineering from CU Boulder and her Ph.D. from USC.
Division of Biomedical Engineering
Yingxiao (Peter) Wang
Professor
Incoming chair, Division of Biomedical Engineering
Wang, a analysis chief within the area of precision medication, begins at USC Viterbi on January 1, 2023. Wang’s analysis consists of the event of genetically-encoded molecule biosensors based mostly on fluorescence resonance power switch (FRET) and the applying of those biosensors for the visualization and quantification of molecular alerts in reside cells with excessive spatiotemporal decision below bodily/mechanical surroundings. He’s additionally considering integrating the cutting-edge applied sciences in molecular engineering, reside cell imaging and nanotechnology for the engineering of equipment molecules to reprogram mobile capabilities. Wang acquired the Wallace H. Coulter Early Profession Award (each Section I and Section II), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and National Institutes of Health Impartial Scientist Award. He obtained his bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in mechanics and fluid mechanics from Peking College in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and acquired his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the College of California, San Diego Jacobs College of Engineering in 2002.
Mork Household Division of Chemical Engineering and Supplies Science
Zhenglu Li
Assistant Professor
Li, an assistant professor within the Mork Household Division of Chemical Engineering and Supplies Science, will begin at USC Viterbi in January 2023. He’s broadly considering growing and making use of massively-parallelized computational strategies based mostly on many-body quantum theories to review excited-state properties of supplies, together with bulk solids and reduced-dimensional nanostructures. He acquired his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 2019, and at present is a postdoctoral fellow on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Yu-Tsun Shao
Assistant Professor
Shao, an assistant professor within the Mork Household Division of Chemical Engineering and Supplies Science, will begin at USC Viterbi in January 2023. Shao’s main analysis focuses on understanding the interaction between spin, lattice, polarization, and cost in quantum supplies by growing and using novel electron microscopy methods, particularly 4D-STEM. He acquired the Robert P. Apkarian Postdoctoral Scholar Award in 2021, the Presidential Scholar Award of the Microscopy Society of America in 2016, and the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Award of the Worldwide Centre for Diffraction Information in 2016. He acquired his Ph.D. in supplies science and engineering on the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018 and is at present a postdoctoral researcher in Professor David Muller’s group at Cornell College.
Sonny Astani Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Thomas Petersen
Assistant Professor
Petersen, an assistant professor within the Sonny Astani Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. His analysis pursuits are in utilized mechanics with a deal with reactive cementitious and geo-materials. Petersen spent three years working as a senior analysis engineer at ExxonMobil, the place he developed applied sciences to enhance the integrity of wells throughout building and operation. He acquired his grasp’s and Ph.D. within the civil and environmental engineering division at MIT in 2015 and 2019, respectively.
Sifat Muin
Analysis Assistant Professor
Muin is a analysis assistant professor on the Sonny Astani Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering since January 2022. Her analysis curiosity lies in earthquake engineering with an emphasis on structural well being monitoring, machine studying, and response-based harm detection. Muin has revealed over 25 analysis publications and is an lively member of Structural Excessive Occasions Reconnaissance (StEER) community and Earthquake Engineering Analysis Institute (EERI). She earned her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2018.
Bo-Tong Zheng
Analysis Assistant Professor
Zheng is a analysis assistant professor on the Sonny Astani Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering since July 2022. Zheng’s present analysis focuses on digital building and 3D printing of concrete, additionally protecting superior modeling of structural habits. He serves because the assistant editor for the journal Advances in Structural Engineering. He acquired his Ph.D. from the College of Houston in 2016 and later joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic College as a postdoctoral fellow and have become a analysis assistant professor in 2020.
Roxana Javid
Senior Lecturer
Beginning in August 2022, Javid has been concerned in tasks and academic applications such because the Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) applications to assist the subsequent era of transportation professionals. She at present serves as a member of the Transportation Analysis Board AJE35 Committee. Javid accomplished her Ph.D. in civil engineering at Texas Tech College, then joined the school of Savannah State College the place she was Director of the Transportation Infrastructures and Geotechnics Schooling and Analysis (TIGER) Group.
Division of Laptop Science
Harsha Madhyastha
Affiliate Professor
Madhyastha, an affiliate professor within the pc science division, began at USC Viterbi in January 2023. Madhyastha’s analysis is broadly within the space of distributed techniques. During the last decade, his group has targeted on enabling cost-effective service deployments which span the globe and bettering the net’s efficiency and availability. Madhyastha’s analysis has acquired the IRTF’s Utilized Networking Analysis Prize twice and led to award papers at OSDI, NSDI, IMC and IEEE CNS. He acquired a number of Google School Analysis Awards, a NetApp School Fellowship, a Fb School Award, and an NSF CAREER award. Madhyastha will come to USC from Michigan Engineering, the place he serves as an affiliate professor.
Souti Chattopadhyay
Assistant Professor
Chattopadhyay joined USC as an assistant professor of pc science in August 2022. Her work lies on the intersection of human-computer interplay, software program engineering and cognitive science. Particularly, her analysis focuses on understanding how people make choices when interacting with interfaces, significantly programming interfaces. Finally, she goals to grasp and mannequin cognitive processes in consultants and end-users of computing to make instruments and platforms that enhance person expertise and productiveness. In 2020, her paper, “A Story from the Trenches: Cognitive Bias in Software program Improvement” acquired an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
Weihang Wang
Assistant Professor
Wang joined USC as an assistant professor of pc science in August 2022 with a analysis deal with software program engineering. Famous for her work in program evaluation and software program testing of internet functions, Wang joins USC from the College of Buffalo, the place she was awarded a Younger Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fb Testing and Verification Analysis Award, and a Mozilla Analysis Award. She acquired her Ph.D. from Purdue College, the place she was awarded a Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Analysis Award.
Dani Yogatama
Assistant Professor
Yogatama joined USC as an assistant professor of pc science in August 2022. His analysis pursuits lie in synthetic intelligence, machine studying, and pure language processing. Previous to his arrival at USC, he was a senior workers analysis scientist at DeepMind, the place he labored on massive language fashions, reinforcement studying, and neural community architectures. He was a Monbukagakusho fellow on the College of Tokyo and acquired his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon College.
Lars Lindemann
Assistant Professor
Lindemann will be part of USC as an assistant professor of pc science in January 2023. He has been serving as a postdoctoral researcher on the College of Pennsylvania after receiving his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Know-how. His analysis pursuits embody techniques and management principle, formal strategies and verification, and security in autonomous techniques. He acquired the Finest Scholar Paper Award on the 2021 Convention on Determination and Management (as a co-author) and the Excellent Scholar Paper Award on the 2019 Convention on Determination and Management. He was a finalist for the Finest Paper Award on the 2022 Convention on Hybrid Techniques: Computation and Management, and for the Finest Scholar Paper Award on the 2018 American Management Convention.
Oded Stein
Assistant Professor
Stein will be part of USC as an assistant professor of pc science in January 2023. His analysis focuses on all issues geometry, together with geometry processing, numerical arithmetic and optimization, pc graphics, computer-aided fabrication, bodily simulation, and differential geometry. His objective is to make the helpful instruments of geometry processing and computer-aided fabrication extra economical, sturdy, and accessible to scientists of all fields in addition to lay customers. He acquired his Ph.D. in utilized arithmetic from Columbia College in 2020 and has since been serving as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Swabha Swayamdipta
Assistant Professor
Swayamdipta joined USC as an assistant professor of pc science in August 2022. Her analysis pursuits are in pure language processing and machine studying, with a main curiosity within the estimation of dataset high quality, the semi-automatic assortment of impactful knowledge, and evaluating how human biases have an effect on dataset building and mannequin choices. At USC, Swayamdipta has launched the Data, Interpretability, Language and Learning (DILL) Lab. She acquired her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon College, adopted by a postdoc on the Allen Institute for AI.
Luis Garcia
Analysis Assistant Professor
Garcia joined the USC Viterbi pc science division as a analysis assistant professor in July 2022. His analysis pursuits embody the security and safety of learning-enabled cyber-physical techniques, malware evaluation and reverse engineering, industrial management system safety and verification and neurosymbolic architectures for reliable cyber-physical techniques. Garcia was beforehand a postdoctoral scholar within the Networked and Embedded Techniques Laboratory (NESL) on the College of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Electrical and Laptop Engineering Division. He joined USC ISI’s Networking and Cybersecurity Division as a analysis pc scientist in June 2020. Garcia acquired his Ph.D. in pc engineering with a cyber safety observe engaged on the security and safety of cyber-physical industrial management techniques at Rutgers College in 2018.
Filip Ilievski
Analysis Assistant Professor
Ilievski, a analysis assistant professor within the pc science division, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. He’s additionally a analysis lead on the Middle on Information Graphs inside USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI). His analysis focuses on growing sturdy and explainable neuro-symbolic expertise with constructive real-world impression, based mostly on neural strategies and high-quality information. Ilievski has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier venues on commonsense reasoning, data extraction, and information graphs. He acquired his Ph.D. in Pure Language Processing from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.
Yajie Zhao
Analysis Assistant Professor
Zhao, the interim director of the Imaginative and prescient & Graphics Lab on the USC Institute for Creative Technolgies (ICT), began at USC Viterbi in July 2022. Her analysis pursuits are human face modeling, monitoring, AR/VR associated face look synthesizing. She acquired her Ph.D. from College of Kentucky in 2017 and later be part of ICT as a post-doctoral researcher.
Marco Papa
Senior Lecturer
Papa joined the pc science division in August 2022. He’s previously the CTO of CareerBuilder and Luckman Interactive, and, extra lately, the chief technologist on the Los Angeles Superior Court docket, the biggest court docket system on the planet. He’s the principal of Intersect World LLC, a cell growth firm that develops cell software program for the iOS and Android platforms.
Ming Hsieh Division of Electrical and Laptop Engineering
Demetrios Christodoulides
Professor
Christodoulides a professor within the electrical and pc engineering division, began at USC Viterbi in January 2022. He has an curiosity in linear and nonlinear optical beam interactions, artificial optical supplies, optical solitons and quantum electronics. Christodoulides acquired the OSA Max Born Award in 2018 and the R.W. Wooden Prize of OSA in 2011 and is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Bodily Society. He acquired his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins College in 1986 and later joined Bellcore as a post-doctoral fellow at Murray Hill.
Feng Qian
Affiliate Professor
Qian will be part of USC Viterbi in Janurary 2023. His analysis pursuits cowl the broad areas of clever cell techniques (together with 5G), digital, augmented, and blended actuality (VR/AR/MR) techniques, cross-layer system design & evaluation, utility & transport layer protocols, real-world system measurement and system safety. Qian obtained his bachelor’s diploma from the ACM Honors Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong College and his Ph.D. from College of Michigan.
Yasser Khan
Assistant Professor
Khan joined the Ming Hsieh Division of Electrical and Laptop Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2022. His analysis focuses on additive manufacturing and {hardware} AI to supply skin-like wearables, implantables and ingestibles. Khan revealed over 40 analysis publications in essentially the most reputed platforms within the area, which had been highlighted by BBC Information, Wall Avenue Journal, NSF Information. He acquired his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and pc sciences from the College of California, Berkeley in 2018 and was additionally a postdoctoral researcher within the chemical engineering division at Stanford College.
Christopher Lin Torng
Assistant Professor
Torng will be part of {the electrical} and pc engineering division at USC Viterbi in January 2023. His analysis focuses on high-performance and energy-efficient pc architectures and domain-specific accelerators, with an emphasis on growing novel architectures and instruments to speed up chip-building design cycles. Torng has been chosen as a Rising Star in Laptop Structure by Georgia Tech in 2018 and an IEEE MICRO Prime Decide from Sizzling Chips in 2018. He acquired his Ph.D. diploma from Cornell College in 2019 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford College within the division {of electrical} engineering.
Mengjie Yu
Assistant Professor
Yu, an assistant professor within the Ming Hsieh Division of Electrical and Laptop Engineering, began at USC Viterbi in January 2022. Her present analysis pursuits embody nonlinear physics, optical frequency comb, mid-infrared spectroscopy, coherent photonic computing and quantum photonics, enabled by superior nanofabrication of low-loss photonic buildings based mostly on silicon, silicon nitride, and lithium niobate. Yu is the 2020 Optical Society (OSA) Ambassador, winner of the 2016 Maiman Paper Competitors and the 2016 Emil Wolf Paper Competitors, and a finalist of the 2020 and 2021 Tingye Li Innovation Prize. She was additionally the Caltech 2019 Younger Investigator Lecturer and chosen because the Rising Star Ladies in Engineering within the Asian Deans’ Discussion board 2019. Yu acquired her Ph.D. in electrical and pc engineering in 2018 from Cornell.
Quntao Zhuang
Assistant Professor
Zhuang, an assistant professor within the Ming Hsieh Division of Electrical and Laptop Engineering, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. His analysis focuses on the speculation of quantum sensing and communication. He’s a DARPA-YFA and NSF CAREER awardee. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 2018 and was an assistant professor at College of Arizona previous to becoming a member of USC.
Zaijun Chen
Analysis Assistant Professor
Chen joins us this 12 months, anticipated to be a analysis assistant professor within the Ming Hsieh Division of Electrical and Laptop Engineering, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. His earlier work focuses on quantum simulation with ultra-cold atoms in optical tweezers and optical computing for machine studying functions. He acquired his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and LMU Munich in 2019.
Susan Schober
Senior Lecturer
Schober joined USC Viterbi in August 2022. Her analysis pursuits embody creating novel, low energy analog circuits for ultra-deep sub-um and nanoscale CMOS applied sciences, growing phase-locked loops for multi-GHz frequency synthesis, designing mixed-signal IC blocks for wi-fi and wireline techniques together with amplifiers, ADCs, and DACs, and the automation of analog circuit design. Schober additionally co-founded the corporate CircuitSeed, LLC and teaches analog circuit design at USC.
Daniel J. Epstein Division of Industrial and Techniques Engineering
Giacomo Nannicini
Affiliate Professor
Nannicini joins us this 12 months, anticipated to be an affiliate professor within the Daniel J. Epstein Division of Industrial & Techniques Engineering, began at USC Viterbi in August 2022. His analysis space is mathematical optimization broadly outlined, however he additionally labored in linear and nonlinear integer programming, community optimization, dynamic programming, derivative-free optimization, quantum computing, transportation, provide chain, sustainable structure, engineering and power associated issues. Giacomo is the recipient of a number of awards, together with the 2021 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, the 2016 COIN-OR Cup, the 2015 Prix Robert Faure. Previous to becoming a member of USC, he was a analysis workers member within the Quantum Algorithms Group on the IBM T.J. Watson Analysis Middle.
Abigail Horn
Analysis Assistant Professor
Horn, a analysis assistant professor within the Daniel J. Epstein Division of Industrial and Techniques Engineering, began at USC in July 2022. The overall space of her analysis is the mix of approaches from community and computational social science and techniques modeling with large-scale knowledge sources to design options to urgent public well being challenges associated to meals techniques — from meals security to vitamin. She obtained her Ph.D. in engineering techniques from the Institute for Information, Techniques and Society at MIT and lately accomplished a postdoctoral fellowship in biostatistics at USC.
Niloufar Izadinia
Lecturer
Izadinia shall be becoming a member of USC Viterbi as a lecturer within the Daniel J. Epstein Division of Industrial and Techniques Engineering in January 2023. Her work advances fashions and strategies in data-driven large-scale optimization and decision-making below uncertainty. Her utilized analysis pursuits are operations, provide chain administration and sustainable designs. Izadinia is the recipient of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) HRP Grant Augmentation Award in 2019 and the Hurter Excellent Instructing Assistant Award at Northwestern College in 2021. She is a Ph.D. candidate in industrial engineering and administration sciences at Northwestern College.
USC Info Know-how Program (ITP)
Maryam Majedi
Senior Lecturer
Majedi joined USC Viterbi in August 2022. Her analysis focuses on embedding ethics into pc science programs. She holds a M.Sc. in high-performance scientific computing from the College of New Brunswick and a fellowship in medical innovation from Western College. Majedi acquired her Ph.D. in knowledge privateness on the College of Calgary. Her Ph.D. work resulted in introducing a brand new privateness coverage modelling approach.
Reza Jafarkhani
Senior Lecturer
Jafarkhani joined USC Viterbi as a senior lecturer in August 2022. His analysis focuses on system identification, harm detection and well being monitoring of civil infrastructures utilizing vibration knowledge recordings. Jafarkhani acquired his Ph.D in civil engineering from USC in 2013. He’s instructing machine studying and programming.
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