All Faculty

USC Dornsife College

Biological Sciences – Human and Evolutionary Biology

Jill McNitt-Gray

Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

Email: mcnitt@usc.edu

Dr. McNitt-Gray is the Director of the USC Biomechanics Research Laboratory and is a Fellow of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), and the National Academy of Kinesiology. Dr. McNitt-Gray’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the neuromuscular control and dynamics of movement. She uses both experimental and dynamic modeling approaches to test research hypotheses specific to control priorities during well-practiced, goal-directed tasks.

Lindsey Schier

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: lschier@usc.edu

Lorraine Turcotte

Professor of Biological Sciences of Human and Evolutionary Biology

Email: turcotte@usc.edu

Lorraine Turcotte received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and was awarded post-doctoral fellowships to pursue her research at the August Krogh Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since coming to USC, her research has focused on unraveling the mechanisms that regulate metabolism and that optimize human performance. She has received the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Recognition Award as well as the Hanna Reisler Mentoring Award, the Inaugural WiSE Architect of Enduring Change Award and Melon Mentoring Awards for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students from USC.

Gioia Polidori

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: gpolidor@usc.edu

Gudrun Bara Floyd

Master Lecturer of Biological Sciences

Email: gbfloyd@usc.edu

Biological Sciences – Marine and Environmental Biology

Naomi M. Levine

Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: n.levine@usc.edu

Dr. Levine received her BA in Geosciences from Princeton University and her PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Her research focuses on understanding the interactions between climate and marine microbial ecosystem composition and function. The Levine Lab is developing innovative, interdisciplinary numerical models that allow them to understand how dynamics occurring at the scale of individual microbes impact large-scale ecosystem processes such as rates of global carbon cycling.

Julia Schwartzman

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: julias21@usc.edu

Julia received her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison studying how marine bacteria persist as animal symbionts. She subsequently trained as a Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School where she investigated the evolutionary diversification of animal-associated bacteria, and as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT where her work focused on the ecological consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in marine bacteria. At USC, Julia’s lab studies the microscale microbial interactions that shape life in marine environments.

Noelle Held

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

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Noelle Held is a microbial biogeochemist and oceanographer. Through proteomics and quantitative microscopy, Held studies the inner workings of microbial cells, and how this scales up to ecological function and global scale processes. Held received her Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography and Microbial Biogeochemistry from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences. She is also a registered yoga teacher.

Laura Melissa Guzman

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: guzmanur@usc.edu

Laura Melissa Guzman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science at USC. Her research links ecology, data science, and conservation, with a particular focus on the environmental drivers behind changes in pollinator distributions in North America.

Carly Kenkel

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: ckenkel@usc.edu

The Cnidarian Evolutionary Ecology Lab studies how organism-environment interactions induce or select for different phenotypes and how these ecological interactions influence and are influenced by the evolutionary trajectories of populations and species. We use a variety of methods to address these questions, ranging from field experiments to ecophysiology to genomic analyses. We also have a strong interest in “translational ecology” and prioritize questions with conservation and restoration applications.

Suzanne Edmands

Professor of Marine and Environmental Biology and Biological Sciences

Email: sedmands@usc.edu

The Edmands Lab is broadly interested in conservation, population and evolutionary genetics. Much of our work uses the crustacean Tigriopus californicus (“the Drosophila of the Sea”) as a model for understanding the genetic basis of fundamental biological processes including reproductive isolation, environmental stress tolerance and aging. Our lab also studies temporal and spatial genetic variation in organisms of concern for conservation and management, including current work on genetics and evolution of the island fox.

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

Email: gomezcon@usc.edu

Myrna Jacobson

Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Email: myrnaj@wrigley.usc.edu

Linda Duguay

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences Emeritus

Email: duguay@usc.edu

Karla Heidelberg

Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies

Email: kheidelb@usc.edu

Karla received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Biological Oceanography. She has been at USC since 2006 and is a Professor of the Practice of Biology and Environmental Studies. Her expertise combines classic and molecular approaches to marine microbial and metazoan ecology. She has serves as an NSF program officer in the Office of Polar Programs and currently serves as the Director of USC Sea Grant.

Biological Sciences – Molecular and Computational Biology

Irene Chiolo

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: chiolo@usc.edu

Susan Forsburg

Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: forsburg@usc.edu

Susan Forsburg did her AB at UC Berkeley, her PhD at MIT, and her postdoc at ICRF/Oxford. She started her lab at the Salk Institute in 1993, and moved to USC in 2004. Her research uses a yeast model system to investigate genome instability following DNA replication stress.

Forsburg is an expert in the genetics of the fission yeast S. pombe, a model organism particularly useful for fundamental studies in chromosome biology, genome stability, and the cell cycle. Her work examines mechanisms that maintain genome stability during DNA replication, using molecular and cell biology and genetics approaches. A feature of her work is the use of extensive live-cell imaging. In addition to her research in this field, she built and maintains the primary S. pombe web site, pombe.net.

Forsburg has over 30 years experience as a PI, leading a team of postdocs, PhD students, technicians, and undergraduates. She has a strong record of continuous independent funding from NIH, NSF, the American Cancer Society, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and over 100 publications in the literature.

Complementing her research, Forsburg is a highly rated lecturer and recipient of the USC Associates Award for Teaching (the university's highest teaching honor). She served as head of the USC graduate program in Molecular Biology and now directs a progressive MS degree. She was also program director of an NIH T32 Training Grant in Chemical Biology.

In external service, Forsburg is a senior editor of the journal G3: Genes, Genomes, and Genetics. She is active in several professional societies. She has served as a regular panelist for NIH, The American Cancer Society, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society grant review panels, and on council for the ACS.

Forsburg is a tireless advocate for women in science and has received numerous awards for her service and mentorship, including the Nature Publishing Mentoring Award in 2016.

She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Women in Science, the California Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

Carolyn Phillips

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: cphil@usc.edu

Carolyn was a PhD student with Abby Dernburg at UC Berkeley and a post-doctoral fellow with Gary Ruvkun at Harvard Medical School and Mass. General Hospital. She started her position at USC in January 2015, where the Phillips lab studies the role of small RNAs in the regulation of gene expression. Specifically, the Phillips lab is interested in how small RNA pathways are organized spatially, how they are regulated, and how they derive their specificity - all key factors in ensuring that essential genes are expressed and detrimental genes are silenced. Ultimately, these pathways are essential to promote organismal viability and fertility.

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.

Christa Bancroft

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: cbancrof@usc.edu

Nancy Castro

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: ncastro@usc.edu

Nancy Castro received her PhD from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in Pharmacology with an emphasis in Molecular Biology. The focus of her graduate research was on breast cancer and signal transduction pathway activation by a specific protein known as breast tumor kinase. Upon completion of her PhD, she moved back home to southern California and pursued a post-doctorate position at City of Hope in Duarte, CA. Her post-doctorate focused on Diabetes research, specifically, looking at miRNAs and their dysregulation in promoting Diabetic Nephropathy. After four years as a post-doc, Nancy started teaching at USC in the Biological Sciences department in 2014, where she now teaches lower and upper division biology courses such as General Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biochemistry, as well as teaching biology laboratory courses.

Raffaella Ghittoni

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: rghitton@usc.edu

I am an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology section, with a courtesy appointment at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at USC Keck Medical School. Born in Rome, Italy, I received my PhD in Clinical and Experimental Allergology and Immunology from the University of Siena in 2005. Before joining the University of Southern California in 2014 as teaching professor, I conducted research in the field of immunology at the University of Arizona, Tucson and different national (INSERM) and international (WHO- IARC) institutes in Lyon, France. At USC over every academic year, I teach courses and educational laboratories on areas such as immunology, cancer, health promotion and aging biology. I actively collaborate with the Davis School of Gerontology as co-instructor of undergraduate and master courses and with the undergraduate students Biology Club as Faculty advisor. I am an active member of the USC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program. For WiSE I am in charge as Faculty Coordinator of the Undergraduate Students Research Program, and I am also member of the Advisory Board.

Biological Sciences – Neurobiology

Lauren McElvain

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Email: mcelvain@usc.edu

Lauren McElvain received a Sc.B. in Neuroscience from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. McElvain completed postdoctoral training as an international collaboration between the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego and the Neurosciences Programme at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. Her research group investigates the neural circuits that control movement using multidisciplinary cellular and systems neuroscience approaches, including molecular biology, electrophysiology, behavior, and computational modeling. Her current research focuses on the organization and function of the basal ganglia and the circuit basis of common movement disorders, including Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.

Sarah Bottjer

Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology

Email: bottjer@usc.edu

Emily Liman

Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: liman@usc.edu

Judith Hirsch

Gabilan Distinguished Professorship in Science and Engineering and Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: jhirsch@usc.edu

Quantitative and Computational Biology

Jazlyn Mooney

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology

Email: jazlynmo@usc.edu

Jazlyn Mooney received her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied the persistence of deleterious variation across multiple species. She then transitioned to Stanford University as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) Fellow, where she focused on mathematical models of population history. At USC, the Mooney lab will create new methods to conduct demographic inference focusing on diverse populations and continue to explore the persistence of deleterious variation across taxa using genomic segments that are inherited from recent shared ancestors.

Liang Chen

Professor of Biological Sciences

Email: liang.chen@usc.edu

Chemistry

Kate White

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Email: katewhit@usc.edu

Our research aims to help bridge the gap between structural biology and physiology by pioneering new experimental and computational tools for multi-scale structural biology (atomic to cellular scales). A major focus is the multi-scale structure and function of pancreatic β-cells and the chemical environment of insulin vesicles. Our approach to cell mapping utilizes a combination of multi-modal imaging, biophysical approaches, and integrative modeling metamodeling to relate multi-scale structure to cell function.

Hanna Reisler

University Professor, Lloyd Armstrong, Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry

Email: reisler@usc.edu

Hanna Reisler has been Professor of Chemistry at USC since 1987. Her research interests are in the area of chemical reaction dynamics. Specifically, she studies the photophysics, photochemistry and reaction mechanisms of molecules important in the atmosphere, combustion, and biology using sophisticated laser and imaging techniques often in collaboration with theory. Her recent work has focused also on the understanding bond breaking processes in networks of water and ice and the photochemical production of transient species relevant to atmospheric processes. She was appointed as University Professor at USC and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. In 2002 she was appointed the inaugural holder of the Lloyd Armstrong Jr. Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering in recognition of her leadership role in advancing the careers of women in science and engineering.

Megan Fieser

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Email: fieser@usc.edu

The Fieser group is interested in applying catalysis to address challenges in polymers sustainability. In the lab, this group works to improve the end of life of disposable polymer items through recycling and upcycing, as well as to synthesize degradable polymers as more sustainable substitutes. Outside the lab, the group organizes beach cleanups and educates the general public on consumer choices that can help solve the problems in polymer pollution.

Anna Krylov

Professor of Chemistry

Email: krylov@usc.edu

Anna Krylov is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California. Born and raised in Donetsk, Ukraine (then USSR), Krylov received her M.Sc. from Moscow State University (1990) and her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1996, with Benny Gerber). Following postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley with Martin Head-Gordon, she joined USC's chemistry department in 1998. Krylov's research is focused on theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. She develops theoretical methods and software for open-shell and electronically excited species, including metastable states. Using computational chemistry, Krylov investigates the role of radicals and electronically excited species in combustion, solar energy, bioimaging, spectroscopy, and quantum information science. Krylov is active in the promotion of gender equality in STEM fields. She created and maintains the web directory Women in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Material Science, and Biochemistry. Krylov is also an outspoken advocate of freedom of speech and academic freedom. She is a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance and a member of its academic leadership committee. Her paper "The Peril of Politicizing Science," which launched a national conversation among scientists and the general public on the growing influence of political ideology over STEM, has received over 100,000 views. Krylov’s writings have been translated into French, Polish, and Estonian.

Smaranda Marinescu

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Email: smarines@usc.edu

Rebecca Broyer

Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry

Email: rbroyer@usc.edu

Rebecca M. Broyer received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. She worked in the biotechnology industry for the several years before moving to the University of California, Los Angeles where she received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2009. She was awarded an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she worked in field of conservation science to develop polymeric materials for the preservation of modern works of art from 2009-2010. Dr. Broyer was an organic chemistry instructor at Glendale Community College before joining the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southern California in 2010 where her current research interests are focused on chemical education and the development of an improved emotional and motivational experience toward chemistry lab work.

Jessica Parr

Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry

Email: parr@usc.edu

Earth Sciences

Caroline Seyler

Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences

Email: seyler@usc.edu

Caroline Seyler received her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from McGill University in 2021 and has since been a postdoc at the University of Texas and an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota. She is interested in the deformation of rocks at tectonic plate boundaries from fast earthquakes to slow creep. Seyler's work focuses on the rheology of faults and shear zones using a combination of field, experimental and microanalytical methods to determine how deformation mechanisms operating at the atomic scale control plate tectonics and influence seismic hazard.

Heidi Houston

Professor of Earth Sciences

Email: heidi.houston@gmail.com

Karen Lloyd

Professor of Earth Sciences

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Sarah Feakins

Professor of Earth Sciences

Email: feakins@usc.edu

Professor Sarah Feakins studies past climate using techniques of organic geochemistry, extracting molecular fossils from soils, lakes, and ocean sediments. The molecular fossils provide clues to past vegetation and climate. Research projects are currently underway in the western US, South America, and Africa, including warm times of the past with lessons for environments of human origins and our future climate.

Mathematics

Susan Montgomery

Gabilan Distinguished Professorship in Science and Engineering and Professor of Mathematics

Email: smontgom@math.usc.edu

Sami Assaf

Professor of Mathematics

Email: shassaf@usc.edu

Professor Sami Assaf is a full Professor of Mathematics and a Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering. Her research in combinatorics, geometry, and probability is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Professor Assaf is recipient of a USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduates, directs a local Math Circle for elementary school students, and currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Mathematics where she works to foster a culture of inclusivity, diversity, and excellence for all students.

Susan Friedlander

Professor of Mathematics

Email: susanfri@usc.edu

Juhi Jang

Professor of Mathematics

Email: juhijang@usc.edu

Greta Panova

Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering

Email: gpanova@usc.edu

Greta Panova obtained her PhD in Mathematics in 2011 from Harvard University. Since then she has been on the faculty of UCLA and University of Pennsylvania before joining USC in 2018. Her research is in mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics with connections to Integrable Probability and Representation Theory) with interactions with Theoretical Computer Science; and, separately, modeling in molecular biology. She is the recipient of the 2020 IMI Award of the Bulgarian Academy of Science, invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics 2023 conference and an editor for the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical competition.

Cymra Haskell

Professor (Teaching) of Mathematics

Email: chaskell@math.usc.edu

Dr Cymra Haskell was awarded her PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1992 and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin and the State University of New York at Stony Brook before coming to the University of Southern California (USC) in 1998. Her research is in the area of ergodic theory and applied mathematics. Her primary focus today is on mathematics education and increasing diversity in mathematics.

Felicia Tabing

Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Mathematics

Email: tabing@usc.edu

Physics and Astronomy

Kelly Luo

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Email: yunqiuke@usc.edu

We are passionate about understanding interactions between the quantum degrees of freedom in solid-state systems such as electron spins, photons, and magnons. We investigate their couplings, propagations, and non-equilibrium dynamics, and explore new device concepts for spin-based quantum information processing. Our experimental toolkits include ultrafast optical microscopy, Sagnac interferometry, microwave and precision measurements, as well as time-resolved X-ray and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy at external facilities.

Vera Gluscevic

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Email: gluscevi@usc.edu

Professor Gluscevic studies dark matter in the universe, using particle physics theory, cosmological observations, and simulations. Gluscevic got her undergraduate degree in astrophysics in Belgrade (Serbia) and her PhD at Caltech (Pasadena, California). She was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before joining USC in 2019. Gluscevic has previously co-led dark matter science teams for the Simons Observatory and CMB-S4 collaborations, and she currently serves on NASA Physics of the Cosmos executive committee. Her work was recognized through the Cottrell Scholars Award, NSF CAREER award, and the USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. In addition to research, she works with the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching to create active and inclusive learning experiences in physics classrooms at USC.

Rosa Di Felice

Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Quantitative and Computational Biology

Email: difelice@usc.edu

I got my B.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) degrees from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". After a postdoc at Xerox PARC, I started my career as a researcher in the Italian National Research Council in 1998. I joined USC in 2013 as a research faculty and switched to a tenure track in 2018, was tenured in 2020 and promoted to full Professor in 2022. My research focuses on computational studies of the physicochemical properties of materials and molecules, with impact in nanotechnologies and health sciences.

Elena Pierpaoli

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Email: pierpaol@usc.edu

I am a cosmologist interested in understanding the composition and evolution of the Universe. My work focuses on the interpretation of survey data in various wavelengths in order to understand the properties of dark matter and dark energy, as well as the early Universe physical processes that set the seeds for what we observe around us. I primarily work on the cosmic microwave background - the relic radiation produced after the Big Bang - and galaxy clusters - the largest gravitationally bound objects in our Universe.

Grace Lu

Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: jialu@usc.edu

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

Neda Maghsoodi

WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Email: maghsoodi@usc.edu

Neda received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Before joining USC, Neda did her postdoctoral research at Harvard University and then CalTech. Neda’s research lies at the interface of solid mechanics, materials science, and biology. Her research group uses a combination of theory, experiment, and computation to study mechanics of soft structures and materials in biology and engineering.

Alejandra Uranga

WISE Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Email: auranga@usc.edu

Alejandra Uranga is an Assistant Professor at the USC Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Before joining USC in 2016, she was a Postdoctoral Associate (1 year) and then a Research Engineer (4 years) in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at MIT. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Florida Tech, a Master of Applied Sciences in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and a PhD degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Dr. Uranga's research interests are in aerodynamics, novel aircraft design, and integrated propulsion systems, for which she favors a combined computational and experimental approach. Her work aims to help achieve environmentally sustainable aviation.

Eva Kanso

Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering and Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Email: kanso@usc.edu

Eva Kanso is a professor and the Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. While at USC, Kanso joined the Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) as an IPA rotator in Fall 2021. Prior to joining USC in 2005, Kanso held a two-year postdoctoral position in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. She received a Ph.D. degree in 2003 and an M.S. degree in 1999 in Mechanical Engineering, as well as an M.A. degree in 2002 in Mathematics, all from the University of California at Berkeley. She obtained her Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut with distinction. Kanso held visiting positions at Princeton University in 2004, the Laboratoire LadHyX at the Ecole Polytechnique in 2015, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2016-2017, the Simons Foundation in 2016-2017, and the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in 2021. Her research interests concern fundamental problems in the biophysics of cellular and subcellular processes and the physics of animal behavior, both at the individual and collection levels. A central theme in her work is the role of the mechanical environment, specifically the fluid medium and fluid-structure interactions, in shaping and driving biological functions.

Inna Abramova

Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Email: abramova@usc.edu

Biomedical Engineering

Eun Ji Chung

The Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early-Career Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email: eunchung@usc.edu

Eun Ji Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California and the Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early Career Chair. She has a courtesy appointment in Chemical Engineering, Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension), and Surgery (Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Repair), and is an affiliated faculty at the Norris Cancer Center and the Stem Cells department. Her laboratory is interested in harnessing molecular design and self-assembly to develop nano- to macroscale biomaterials that can be utilized in medicine. Dr. Chung received her B.A. with honors in Molecular Biology from Scripps College, her Ph.D. from the Department of Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University, and her postdoctoral training from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

Maral Mousavi

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email: mousavi.maral@usc.edu

Maral Mousavi joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at USC in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Mousavi’s research experiences and interests span from point-of-care diagnostics, to electrochemical sensors, wearable devices, neural probes, and tools for precision medicine. She received her B.S. from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. She completed her PhD studies in 2016 at the University of Minnesota, under the advisement of Professor Philippe Buhlmann, who is one of the world leaders in supramolecular electrochemical ion sensing. In her doctorate studies, she worked on electrochemical devices for sensing and energy storage, and use of fluorous compounds as novel materials for improving selectivity of potentiometric sensors. From 2016-2019, Maral was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Professor George Whitesides at Harvard University, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, working on affordable diagnostic devices to make healthcare and analysis accessible to all. Professor Mousavi is the recipient of NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, Powell Research Award, Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion Research Award, the Grand Prize for the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Research Competition, the University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graham N. Gleysteen Fellowship for Academic Excellence, and two Graduate Student Research Awards from Eastern Analytical Symposium, and Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry.

Ellis Meng

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: ellis.meng@usc.edu

Ellis Meng directs the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory which focuses on developing novel micro- and nanotechnologies for biomedical applications. In particular, we are interested in the integration of multiple modalities (e.g. electrical, mechanical, and chemical) in miniaturized devices measuring no more than a few millimeters for use in fundamental scientific research, biomedical diagnostics, monitoring, and therapy.

Jennifer Treweek

WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email: jtreweek@usc.edu

Cristina Zavaleta

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email: czavalet@usc.edu

Dr. Zavaleta was born and raised in a small border town in South Texas, near Mexico. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Incarnate Word, a small private university in San Antonio. After graduating, she started in the Medical Physics graduate program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio where she focused on utilizing radioactive nanoparticles for the treatment of ovarian cancer. After receiving her Ph.D., she began a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University under the guidance of Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, where she helped pioneer a new molecular imaging strategy that utilizes Raman nanoparticles for cancer detection. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California in the department of Biomedical Engineering. Her lab focuses on providing physicians with new nano-based molecular imaging tools to improve cancer detection and treatment.

Stacey Finley

Nichole A. and Thuan Q. Pham Professor and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Quantitative and Computational Biology

Email: sfinley@usc.edu

Dr. Stacey Finley is holder of the Nichole A. and Thuan Q. Pham Professorship and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Finley received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Florida A & M University and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. She completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Finley joined the faculty at USC in 2013, and she leads the Computational Systems Biology Laboratory.

Megan McCain

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email: mlmccain@usc.edu

Megan L. McCain is the PI of the Laboratory for Living Systems Engineering, an interdisciplinary research group that engineers "Organ on Chip" models of human tissues for disease modeling and mechanobiology. Megan is a dedicated research mentor (as recognized by the WiSE Hanna Reisler Mentorship Award) and also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on tissue engineering with hands-on lab experiences. Megan has received many recognitions, including selection as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the NSF CAREER Award. Prior to joining USC in 2014, Megan was a PhD student and postdoc at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

Jill McNitt-Gray

Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

Email: mcnitt@usc.edu

Brittany Kay

Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering

Email: bkay@usc.edu

Brittany Kay graduated from USC's undergraduate Biomedical Engineering (BME) program summa cum laude in 2006, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in BME from USC in 2012. For her Ph.D., Brittany specialized in pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling, which is the process of mathematically modeling how drugs are distributed through (and eliminated from) the body and how they affect the body or disease state. In 2013, she joined the USC BME faculty as a part-time lecturer, becoming a full-time lecturer in January 2014. Brittany teaches 6 classes a year at USC on varying BME-related topics with students ranging from freshman to Ph.D. candidates.

Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Katherine Shing

Associate Professor Emeritus

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Shaama Sharada

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Chemistry

Email: ssharada@usc.edu

Prof. Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada is an Associate Professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. Her research interests span the development and application of quantum chemistry methods to design catalysts for sustainable chemistry. Her group is developing efficient algorithms, inspired from signal processing, for advancing sophisticated rate theories in catalysis. The group is also establishing frameworks for catalyst design and discovery towards efficient natural gas conversion and light-driven carbon dioxide utilization.

Andrea Armani

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Email: armani@usc.edu

Andrea Hodge

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Email: ahodge@usc.edu

Andrea Hodge holds the Arthur B. Freeman Professorship of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from Northwestern University. Prof. Hodge served as the Vice Provost for undergraduate programs at USC from July 2016 to June 2020 and is currently the Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Her research focus is on the synthesis of engineered metallic microstructures with nanoscale precision, which allows for tailored properties and/or functionality. Dr. Hodge is the recipient several prestigious research awards including: NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award and DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA).

Malancha Gupta

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Chemistry

Email: malanchg@usc.edu

Lessa Grunenfelder

Associate Professor of Practice in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Email: grunenfe@usc.edu

Lessa Grunenfelder has a B.S. in astronautical engineering and a MS and PhD in materials science, all from USC. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on material properties, processing, selection, and design. She is passionate about sharing her love of materials science with students through curriculum that combines fundamental science and engineering application.

Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz will join the USC Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a Gabilan Assistant Professor in January 2024. She currently leads the Sustainable Catalysis and Materials laboratory (the-sustainable-lab.com) at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Abdul-Aziz received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining UC Riverside, she was a Provost postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also worked previously as a Forensic scientist for the Philadelphia police department and as a Refinery chemist at Sunoco Chemicals in Philadelphia after receiving a B.S. in Chemistry from Temple University. Her research group develops sustainable catalytic processes using an interdisciplinary toolset from chemistry, materials and chemical engineering. Abdul-Aziz is a 2021 Scialog Negative Emissions Science and National Academy Frontiers of Engineering fellow. She was recently awarded a 2022 NSF Career Award for developing specialized catalysts for CO₂ capture and utilization.

Jiachen Zhang

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: jiachen.zhang@usc.edu

Dr. Jiachen Zhang will be joining the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Spring 2024. Her research group investigates the interactions of air quality, climate, and society, quantifying the impacts of strategies aimed at mitigating climate change and air pollution. Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from USC and a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from Peking University. Currently, Dr. Zhang is the manager of the Mobile Source Technology Assessment and Modeling Section at the California Air Resources Board, where she leads a team of scientists and engineers to conduct original research projects, develop emissions inventory, and inform first-of-their-kind policies aimed at promoting electric vehicles and reducing air pollution emissions.

Ruolin Li

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Burcin Becerik-Gerber

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: becerik@usc.edu

Dr. Burcin Becerik-Gerber is a professor and Chair of Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and founder and the Director of USC Center for Intelligent Environments (CENTIENTS). During the last 15 years, her research focused on advanced data acquisition, modeling, visualization for design, construction, and control of user-centered responsive and adaptive built environments. She pioneered a new field: Human-Building Interaction (HBI), which is a convergent field that represents the growing complexities of the dynamic interplay between human experience and intelligence within built environments.

Audrey Olivier

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: audreyol@usc.edu

Amy Childress

Dean's Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: amyec@usc.edu

I am a Professor and Director of the ReWater (Water Reuse and Resource Recovery) Center in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. My research and scholarly interests are in the areas of desalination, wastewater reuse, and the water-energy nexus. Most recently, I have investigated membrane processes for innovative solutions to contaminant and energy challenges; conceptual analyses of innovative configurations of shared/integrated facilities; colloidal and interfacial aspects of membrane processes; and brine reduction and energy recovery. I am a past president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, a Board-Certified Environmental Engineering member, and a recent Fulbright US scholar. I chair National Water Research Institute independent advisory panels on potable reuse and seawater desalination projects and serve on the external audit panel for Singapore Public Utilities Board. I am co-editor of Desalination and on the advisory boards of several technical journals.

Kelly Sanders

Dr. Teh Fu Yen Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences

Email: ktsanders@usc.edu

Amy Rechenmacher

Professor of Practice in Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice

Email: arechenm@usc.edu

Prof. Rechenmacher specializes in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics. She was formerly on the tenure track, studying strain localization and localized flow in granular materials. She transitioned to full-time teaching in 2013, teaching geotechnical and mechanics courses, as well as first-year engineering introductory courses. Her interests currently lie in uses of active and engaged learning techniques as a means to enhance student learning.

Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Jieyu Zhao

WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: jieyuz@usc.edu

Jieyu Zhao is a WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science at USC. Her research interest lies in fairness of ML/NLP models. Her research has been recognized widely by the community: she has won best paper award from EMNLP, got the Microsoft PhD Fellowship and was selected as the EECS Rising Star. More details can be found at https://jyzhao.net/.

Souti Chattopadhyay

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: schattop@usc.edu

Souti “Rini” Chattopadhyay received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University. She works at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Cognitive Science. Her work is focused on understanding how humans make decisions when interacting with interfaces, specifically programming interfaces. She is an intern alum of Microsoft Research and continues working with them to broaden the participation of future generations in computing. Some of her works were awarded best papers and honorable mentions by ACM and IEEE, including understanding cognitive biases in programmers, and exploring a plethora of challenges data scientists face. Chattopadhyay's work on cognitive biases was also recognized as research highlights by CACM and that on supporting data scientists was featured in Nature articles.

Weihang Wang

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: weihangw@usc.edu

Weihang Wang's research interests are in software engineering. Before joining USC, Wang was an Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo, from 2018 to 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2018. Wang was awarded an NSF CAREER Award, a University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award, a Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Research Award, a Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award, and a Mozilla Research Award.

Ruishan Liu

Assistant Professor Computer Science

Email: ruishanl@usc.edu

Ruishan Liu will join USC as an assistant professor of computer science in January 2024. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2022 and is primarily interested in machine learning for healthcare and biomedicine. Liu is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. She was a recipient of Rising Star in Data Science, Rising Star in Engineering in Health, Next Generation in Biomedicine, and finalist for the Reuters Events Global Pharma Awards.

Paraskevi Micha

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Swabha Swayamdipta

Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: swabhas@usc.edu

Swabha Swayamdipta is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a Gabilan Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. Her research interests are in natural language processing and machine learning, with a primary interest in the estimation of dataset quality, the semi-automatic collection of impactful data, and evaluating how human biases affect dataset construction and model decisions. At USC, Swabha has launched the Data, Interpretability, Language and Learning (DILL) Lab. Her work has received outstanding paper awards at ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2021 and an honorable mention for the best paper at ACL 2020, and is supported by awards from the Allen Institute for AI and Intel Labs.

Bistra Dilkina

Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Industrial & Systems Engineering

Email: dilkina@usc.edu

Dr. Bistra Dilkina is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, co-director of the USC Center of AI in Society, and the inaugural Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Her research and teaching center around the integration of machine learning and discrete optimization, with a strong focus on AI applications in computational sustainability and social good. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and was a post-doctoral associate at the Institute for Computational Sustainability. Her research has contributed significant advances to machine-learning-guided combinatorial solving including mathematical programming and planning, as well as decision-focused learning where combinatorial reasoning is integrated in machine learning pipelines. Her applied research in Computational Sustainability spans using AI for wildlife conservation planning, using AI to understand the impacts of climate change in terms of energy, water, habitat and human migration, and using AI to optimize fortification of lifeline infrastructures for disaster resilience. She has over 90 publications and has co-organized or served as a chair to numerous workshops, tutorials, and special tracks at major conferences.

Heather Culbertson

WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Email: hculbert@usc.edu

Heather Culbertson’s research focuses on the design and control of haptic devices and rendering systems, human-robot interaction, and virtual reality. Previously, she was a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University where she worked in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab. She received her PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 working in the Haptics Group, part of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. Her awards include the NSF CAREER Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Early Career Award, citation for meritorious service as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Best Paper at UIST 2017, and the Best Hands-On Demonstration Award at IEEE World Haptics 2013.

Yan Liu

Professor of Computer Science

Email: liu32@usc.edu

Prof. Yan Liu works on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and their applications to address societal challenges, such as health care, sustainability, and misinformation. She got her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and worked as a research staff member at IBM research before joining USC in 2010.

Maja Mataric

Chan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics

Email: mataric@usc.edu

Maja received her Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science & AI. She has been at USC since 1997 and is a Chaired and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, with appointments in Neuroscience and Pediatrics. She has served as the USC President if the Faculty, Viterbi Dean of Research, and USC Vice President of Research. Her is a pioneer of the field of socially assistive robotics, which creates human-machine interaction interventions; her lab has worked with children with autism, stroke and dementia patients, and with students with anxiety and/or depression. She is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of AAAS, AAAI, ACM, and IEEE, and received a Presidential mentoring award from President Obama.

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

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

Email: gil@isi.edu

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

Email: lucas@ict.usc.edu

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

Email: ningw@usc.edu

Sandra Batista

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Email: sbatista@usc.edu

Claire Bono

Lecturer of Computer Science

Email: bono@pollux.usc.edu

Tatyana Ryutov

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Email: tryutov@gmail.com

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

Leana Golubchik

Stephen and Etta Varra Professor and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Email: leana@usc.edu

Leana Golubchik is the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at USC. She also serves as the Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program. Prior to that, she was on the faculty at the University of Maryland and Columbia University. Leana received her Ph.D. from UCLA. Her research interests are broadly in the design and evaluation of large scale distributed systems, including deep learning systems, hybrid clouds and data centers, and their applications in machine learning and data analytics as well as privacy and security. Leana is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems. She is the recipient of the IBM Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Okawa Foundation Award, the WTS-LA Diversity Leadership Award, the USC Remarkable Women Award, and the USC Mellon Culture of Mentoring Award. She is a Fellow of AAAS.

Paria Rashidinejad

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Feifei Qian

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor

Email: feifeiqi@usc.edu

Mengjie Yu

WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: mengjiey@usc.edu

Mengjie is Ambassador of the Optical Society (Optica), associate editor of npj nanophotonics and advanced photonics and guest editor of photonic research, JOSA B and optical material express. She received DARPA young faculty award 2023, Maiman and Emil Wolf awards. She serves as subcommittee of CLEO, OFC, FiO, ACP international optical conferences.

Michelle Povinelli

Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrophysics, Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Email: povinell@usc.edu

Dr. Michelle Lynn Povinelli is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University Southern California. She is a Fellow of the OSA and the SPIE. Povinelli is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and the TR35 Award for innovators under age 35 from MIT's Technology Review magazine. Her research has been funded by a variety of sources including NSF, ARO, NASA, DARPA, NGA, DOE, private companies, and foundations, and she was a member of the 2018-19 class of the Defense Science Study Group.

Mahta Moghaddam

Ming Hsieh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering-Electrophysics and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: mahta@usc.edu

Mercedeh Khajavikhan

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: khajavik@usc.edu

Grace Lu

Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: jialu@usc.edu

Urbashi Mitra

Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: ubli@usc.edu

Urbashi Mitra received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Previous appointments include the Ohio State University and Bellcore. Her research interests are in: wireless communications, communication and sensor networks, biological communication systems, underwater acoustic communication, detection and estimation and the interface of communication, sensing and control. Dr. Mitra actively collaborates with domain experts in microbiology, underwater acoustics, quantum chemistry and epidemiology.

Alice Parker

Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Emeritus

Email: parker@eve.usc.edu

Maryam Shanechi

Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Email: shanechi@usc.edu

Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Renyuan Xu

WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering; WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor

Email: renyuanx@usc.edu

I am currently a WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. From 2019-2021 I was a Hooke Research Fellow in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and before that I completed my Ph.D. in 2019 at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. My research interests include stochastic analysis, stochastic controls and games, machine learning theory, and mathematical finance. I am also interested in interdisciplinary topics that integrate methodologies in multiple fields such as applied probability, statistics, and optimization, along with their applications in addressing high-stake decision-making problems in modern large-scale systems.

Victoria Stodden

Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Email: stodden@usc.edu

Sze-Chuan Suen

Associate Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering

Email: ssuen@usc.edu

Sze-chuan Suen is a WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include developing applied mathematical models to identify epidemiological trends and evaluate health policies to support informed decision-making. Her previous work has examined the optimal management of COVID-19, tuberculosis, HIV, as well as chronic diseases.

Julie Higle

Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Emeritus

Email: julie.higle@usc.edu

Phebe Vayanos

Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Computer Science

Email: phebe.vayanos@usc.edu

I am an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and a Co-Director of the CAIS Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society. I hold a Viterbi Early Career Chair in Engineering and before that held a WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professorship. Through my research, I aim to advance integer, stochastic, and robust optimization, and their interface with machine learning, causal inference, and economics to enable the design of predictive and prescriptive models that are robust, interpretable, and fair, being suitable to deploy in high-stakes settings.

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.

Shalini Gupta

Lecturer of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Email: shalinig@usc.edu

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Jill McNitt-Gray

Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

Lindsey Schier

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Lorraine Turcotte

Professor of Biological Sciences of Human and Evolutionary Biology

Gioia Polidori

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Gudrun Bara Floyd

Master Lecturer of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences – Marine and Environmental Biology

Naomi M. Levine

Professor of Biological Sciences

Julia Schwartzman

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Noelle Held

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Laura Melissa Guzman

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Carly Kenkel

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Suzanne Edmands

Professor of Marine and Environmental Biology and Biological Sciences

Feixue Fu

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Laura Gomez Consarnau

Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Myrna Jacobson

Assistant Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Linda Duguay

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences Emeritus

Karla Heidelberg

Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies

Biological Sciences – Molecular and Computational Biology

Irene Chiolo

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Susan Forsburg

Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences

Carolyn Phillips

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Le Trinh

Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences

Christa Bancroft

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Nancy Castro

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Raffaella Ghittoni

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences – Neurobiology

Lauren McElvain

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Sarah Bottjer

Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology

Emily Liman

Professor of Biological Sciences

Judith Hirsch

Gabilan Distinguished Professorship in Science and Engineering and Professor of Biological Sciences

Quantitative and Computational Biology

Jazlyn Mooney

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology

Liang Chen

Professor of Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Kate White

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Hanna Reisler

University Professor, Lloyd Armstrong, Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry

Megan Fieser

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Anna Krylov

Professor of Chemistry

Smaranda Marinescu

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Rebecca Broyer

Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry