Administration
Director
Leana Golubchik
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Phone: (213) 740-0996
WiSE Office: DRB 232
leana@usc.edu
Program Manager
Mallory Redel
Phone: (213) 740-0996
WiSE Office: DRB 232
redel@usc.edu
Marketing Assistant
Marie Meneses
Phone: (213) 740-0996
WiSE Office: DRB 232
marieste@usc.edu
WiSE Advisory Board and Committees
Chair
Judith Hirsch
Professor, Biological Sciences; Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering
Email: jhirsch@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-2210Office: HNB 328
Research Interests: Early stage visual cortical processing. Specifically, how thalamocortical connections and circuits within the striate cortex itself resolve basic features of the visual scene.
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Members
Julie Higle
Professor and Chair, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Email: higle@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6785Office: GER 240B
Research Interests: Development of models and solution methods for decision making under uncertainty; stochastic programming models and algorithmic methods for their solution; stochastic modeling for health-care applications.
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Susan Montgomery
Professor, Mathematics, Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering
Email: smontgom@math.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2419Office: DRB 240
Research Interests: Non-commutative algebras: in particular, Hopf algebras, their structure and representations, and their actions on other algebras.
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Hanna Reisler
Professor, Chemistry and Lloyd Armstrong Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering
Email: reisler@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-7071Office: SSC 622
Research Interests: Detailed mechanisms of chemical reactions in the gas and condensed phases by using laser and molecular beam techniques.
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Gary Rosen
Professor, Mathematics
Email: grosen@math.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740‑1717Office: KAP 104B
Research Interests: Modelling, estimation, control, and optimal design of systems governed by infinite dimensional systems, and in particular partial differential equations.
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Shang-Hua Teng
Professor, Computer Science and Seeley G. Mudd Professor of Engineering
Email: shanghua@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3667Office: RTH 402
Research Interests: smoothed analysis of algorithms, computational economics and game theory, spectral graph theory, mathematical board games, scientific computing, mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, computational geometry and computer graphics.
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Linda Duguay
Associate Professor (Research), Biological Sciences and Director, USC Sea Grant Program
Email: duguay@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-1335Office: AHF 209
Research Interests: Ctenophores, foraminfera, symbiotic associations, benthic ecology of dredge spoil sites, water quality, beach health and status.
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David D’Argenio
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Email: dargenio@bmsr.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-0341Office: DRB 154
Research Interests: development of advanced modeling and computational methods for studying the absorption, distribution and elimination of therapeutic drugs (pharmacokinetics – PK), understanding how drugs produce their effects (pharmacodynamics – PD) and identifying the genetic basis for differences in drug action (pharmacogenomics – PG).
Raffaella Ghittoni
Lecturer, Biological Sciences
Email: rghitton@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-8352Office: ZHS 256
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Leana Golubchik
Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, WiSE Program Director, (Ex-Officio)
Email: leana@cs.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-4524Office: SAL 226
Research Interests: Internet-based computing, multimedia systems, and computer systems modeling and performance evaluation.
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Sandeep Gupta
Professor, Electrical Engineering-Systems
Email: sandeep@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740‑2251Office: SAL 226
Research Interests: Design for testability, test, and validation of high speed systems.
Chair
Jill McNitt-Gray
Professor, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering
Email: mcnitt@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-7902Website: http://dornsife.usc.edu/labs/biomech/
Office: PED B9
Research: Mechanisms organisms use to control and distribute mechanical load during goal-directed multijoint movements involving external loading.
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James Boedicker
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Email: boedicke@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-1104Office: SSC 211
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Suzanne Edmands
Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: sedmands@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-5548Office: AHF 316
Research Interests: Conservation, evolution, population genetics, breeding, genetic structure, marine populatons, copepod.
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Joshua West
Associate Professor, Earth Sciences
Email: joshwest@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740‑6736Office: ZHS 325B
Research Interests: The chemical processes operating at the Earth’s surface.
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Malancha Gupta
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Jack Munushian Early Career Chair in Engineering
Email: malanchg@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2067Office: HED 208
Research Interests: Functional Polymer Films and Coatings, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Surface Modification and Patterning.
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Felipe de Barros
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: fbarros@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6130Office: KAP 240
Research Interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, stochastic hydrogeology, contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media, site characterization and risk assessment,with emphasis on the scale issue, aquifer remediation and sustainability.
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Aleksandra Korolova
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and WiSE Jr. Gabilan Chair
Email: korolova@usc.edu Phone: (650)-796-4536Office: SAL 206
Research Interests: privacy-preserving algorithms, technologies, & policies, human-centric privacy & security, big data applications algorithms, and large-scale data mining of social & information networks.
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Sze-Chuan Suen
Assistant Professor, Epstein Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Email: ssuen@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-0705Office: OHE 310N
Research Interests: Developing models that adapt to changing demographic and secular trends in healthcare to support actionable policy recommendations.
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Nina Yang, Marine and Environmental Biology
Emily Reed, Electrical Engineering
Kylie Trettner, Chemical Engineering
Sarah Cooney, Computer Science
Megan Franke, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Angineh Zohrabian, Environmental Engineering