Research Faculty

USC Dornsife College

Biological Sciences – Human and Evolutionary Biology

Biological Sciences – Marine and Environmental Biology

Feixue Fu : Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Feixue Fu

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Email: ffu@usc.edu
I received my PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2003. I have been working in the Department of Biological Sciences at USC since 2007. My major research emphasis is on the responses of marine phytoplankton physiology and community structure to environmental change. My particular expertise is in the field of marine biogeochemistry, including the cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and iron in the ocean.
Laura Gomez Consarnau : Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Laura Gomez Consarnau

Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Email: gomezcon@usc.edu
Myrna Jacobson : Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Myrna Jacobson

Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Email: myrnaj@wrigley.usc.edu
Linda Duguay : Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences Emeritus

Linda Duguay

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences Emeritus

Email: duguay@usc.edu

Biological Sciences – Molecular and Computational Biology

Le Trinh : Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Le Trinh

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Email: letrinh@usc.edu

Le A. Trinh received her PhD from the University of California, San Francisco and performed postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology. Her research at the University of Southern California focuses on defining interactions between gene regulatory networks and the cellular dynamics that drive morphogenetic processes in embryonic development, health, and disease. Her work combines genetic engineering, genome-scale approaches with emerging imaging techniques to understand the gene regulatory mechanisms underlying developmental patterning and organogenesis in vertebrates.

Biological Sciences – Neurobiology

Quantitative and Computational Biology

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

Mathematics

Physics and Astronomy

Geraldine Peters : Professor (Research) of Physics and Astronomy

Geraldine Peters

Professor (Research) of Physics and Astronomy

Email: gpeters@usc.edu
Geraldine (Gerrie) Peters' research specialty is Stellar Astrophysics with a focus on massive stars (including interacting binaries). She has studied the circumstellar plasmas, chemical composition, and evolution of these hot stars and is a co-discoverer of a new class of evolved binaries. Observational data are mostly spectra in the Far Ultraviolet region from numerous spacecraft for which funding has been provided by NASA for more than 75 projects. Gerrie has also served in elected offices for the International Astronomical Union (IAU), American Astronomical Society (AAS), and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computer Science

Ewa Deelman : Research Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute

Ewa Deelman

Research Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute

Email: deelman@isi.edu
Kallirroi Georgila : Research Associate Professor of Computer Science

Kallirroi Georgila

Research Associate Professor of Computer Science

Email: kgeorgila@usc.edu

Kallirroi Georgila is a Research Associate Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Her research interests include all aspects of speech and language processing with a focus on machine learning (including deep learning), particularly reinforcement learning of dialogue system policies, dialogue system evaluation, speech recognition, and expressive conversational speech synthesis. She has chaired and served on the organizing, senior, and program committees of many conferences and workshops. She has also served as Vice President of SIGdial (the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue), and currently she is an Associate Editor of the Dialogue and Discourse journal.

Yolanda Gil : Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences and Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute

Yolanda Gil

Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences and Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute

Email: gil@isi.edu
Kristina Lerman : Research Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute

Kristina Lerman

Research Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute

Email: lerman@isi.edu
Gale Lucas : Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Gale Lucas

Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: lucas@ict.usc.edu
Jelena Mirkovic : Research Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science

Jelena Mirkovic

Research Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science

Email: mirkovic@isi.edu
Jelena Mirkovic is Research Team Lead at USC/ISI and Research Associate Professor at Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, USC. She received her MS and PhD from UCLA and her BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Jelena's research interests span networking, security and privacy topics. She is especially interested in human-centric security, usable security, security experimentation and security education.
Ning Wang : Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Ning Wang

Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: ningw@usc.edu

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Abigail Horn : Research Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Abigail Horn

Research Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Email: hornabig@usc.edu

Abigail Horn is a Research Computer Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute and incoming Research Assistant Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Horn was recently a Research Associate in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC.

The general area of Horn's research is the combination of approaches from network and computational social science and systems modeling with large-scale novel data sources to design solutions to pressing public health challenges. Horn focuses on problems in food systems and nutrition, and infectious disease modeling.