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
Email: ffu@usc.edu
Biological Sciences – Molecular and Computational Biology
Le Trinh
Associate Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences
Email: letrinh@usc.eduLe 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
Email: gpeters@usc.eduUSC 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
Email: deelman@isi.edu
Kallirroi Georgila
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
Email: kgeorgila@usc.eduKallirroi 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
Jelena Mirkovic
Research Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science
Email: mirkovic@isi.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
Email: hornabig@usc.eduAbigail 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.