USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering: Awards and Numbers

Faculty Honors 2009

Name	Award and Honor
Michelle L. Povinelli	ARO Young Investigator Award
Michelle L. Povinelli	NSF Career Award
Robert Scholtz	Elected to National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Sanjit Mitra	Athanasios Papoulis Award for Excellence in Engineering Technology Education from the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
Alan Willner	2009 Optical Society of America Leadership Award New Focus/Bookham Prize
Krishna Nayak	2009 Magnetic Resonance (MR) Thought Leader Award from GE Healthcare
Krishna Nayak	IEEE Senior Member
Petros Ioannou	IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society Best Practice Award
Andreas Molisch	Global Wireless Education Consortium (GWEC) Wireless Educator of the Year for 2009
Urbashi Mitra	USC Office of Campus Activities and Women's Student Assembly 2009 Remarkable Women Award
Alice Parker	2009 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education
Kostas Psounis	ACM Senior Member
Jerry Mendel	Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA)
Murali Annavaram	IEEE Senior Member
Bart Kosko	Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA)
Urbashi Mitra	2009 Viterbi School Faculty and Staff Award, Dean's Faculty Award for Service
Michael Neely	2009 Viterbi School Faculty and Staff Award, Junior Research Award
Michael Neely	IEEE Senior Member
Timothy Pinkston	Elected IEEE Fellow
Timothy Pinkston	ACM Senior Member
Murali Annavaram	ACM Senior Member
Chung-Chieh Kuo	Re-elected Signal and Image Processing Director
Massoud Pedram	Re-elected Computer Engineering Director
Alan Willner	HP Innovation Research Award
Stephen Cronin	NSF Career Award
Hossein Hashemi	NSF Career Award
Eun Sok Kim	New Chair for Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics
Todd Brun	IEEE Senior Member
Andrea Armani	ONR Young Investigator Award
Andrea Armani	Named to 2009 MIT Technology Review TR35 List
Ellis Meng	Named to 2009 MIT Technology Review TR35 List
Shrikanth Narayanan	Elected IEEE Fellow
Daniel Dapkus	ISCS 2009 Welker Award
Solomon Golomb	Distinguished Faculty Service Award
Sandeep Gupta	Distinguished Faculty Service Award

USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Highlights:

Over 30 Fellows of the IEEE.
Three National Academy of Sciences Members (Sol Golomb, Andrew Viterbi, Robert Hellwarth)
Fourteen members of the National Academy of Engineering (34 members in the Viterbi School)
Eight recipients of the Okawa Research Grant (Alan Willner, Robert Scholtz, Urbashi Mitra, Antonio Ortega, Melvin Breuer, Viktor Prasanna, Giuseppe Caire, Shrikanth Narayanan)
Four Shannon Awardees (Solomon Golomb, Irving Reed, Lloyd Welch, Andrew Viterbi)
Over seventeen recipients of NSF Career Awards or equivalent (Young Investigator Award) and Presidential Faculty Fellows
Four recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (8 for the Viterbi School)
Twelve chaired Electrical Engineering professorships in the school are held by Electrical Engineering faculty
Eight IEEE Gold Medals
More than 50 Patents from faculty within the department
One Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (Daniel Lidar)
One David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Engineering and Science (Alan Willner)

Electrical Engineering is among the most prolific departments at USC:

Total faculty size of approximately: 70
Typical Enrollment approximately: 300 undergraduate students, 950 masters students, 350 Ph.D. students