Teaching Faculty

USC Dornsife College

Biological Sciences – Human and Evolutionary Biology

Gioia Polidori : Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Gioia Polidori

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: gpolidor@usc.edu
Gudrun Bara Floyd : Master Lecturer of Biological Sciences

Gudrun Bara Floyd

Master Lecturer of Biological Sciences

Email: gbfloyd@usc.edu

Biological Sciences – Marine and Environmental Biology

Karla Heidelberg : Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies

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

Christa Bancroft : Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Christa Bancroft

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: cbancrof@usc.edu
Nancy Castro : Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Nancy Castro

Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: ncastro@usc.edu
Raffaella Ghittoni : Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Raffaella Ghittoni

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Biological Sciences

Email: rghitton@usc.edu

Biological Sciences – Neurobiology

Quantitative and Computational Biology

Chemistry

Rebecca Broyer : Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry

Rebecca Broyer

Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry

Email: rbroyer@usc.edu
Jessica Parr : Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry

Jessica Parr

Professor (Teaching) of Chemistry

Email: parr@usc.edu

Earth Sciences

Mathematics

Cymra Haskell : Professor (Teaching) of Mathematics

Cymra Haskell

Professor (Teaching) of Mathematics

Email: chaskell@math.usc.edu
Felicia Tabing : Lecturer of Mathematics

Felicia Tabing

Lecturer of Mathematics

Email: tabing@usc.edu

Physics and Astronomy

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Inna Abramova : Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Inna Abramova

Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Email: abramova@usc.edu

Biomedical Engineering

Brittany Kay : Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering

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

Lessa Grunenfelder : Associate Professor of Practice in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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

Amy Rechenmacher : Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice

Amy Rechenmacher

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice

Email: arechenm@usc.edu

Computer Science

Sandra Batista : Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Sandra Batista

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Email: sbatista@usc.edu
Claire Bono : Lecturer of Computer Science

Claire Bono

Lecturer of Computer Science

Email: bono@pollux.usc.edu
Tatyana Ryutov : Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Tatyana Ryutov

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Email: tryutov@gmail.com

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Shalini Gupta : Lecturer of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Shalini Gupta

Lecturer of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Email: shalinig@usc.edu