Electrical engineering graduate student Michael Johnson never thought he'd be introducing Bill Gates to fellow engineering students a year ago. Now that he has, he's ready for anything.

Hossein Hashemi, an assistant professor of electrical engineering-electrophysics in the Ming Hsieh Department, has been named to the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair.

Viktor Prasanna and Aristides Requicha were part of an elite company of 38 leaders in computing technology recognized this year by being named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery,

Engineering society honors USC’s president and provost for their exceptional leadership and contributions.

Two Ph.D. student members of SIPI won Best Student Paper Awards at the IEEE 2007 Multimedia Signal Processing Meeting.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research has awarded 13 USC engineers 2007 Zumberge interdisciplinary research grants for projects in quantum computing and new educational technologies to ultrasonic image-guided surgery.

The Viterbi School welcomes two research scholars who show promise of advancing the fields of nano device technology and health care systems engineering.

John O'Brien, a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering who is also Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, was elected a 2008 Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Prof Sanjit was appointed a Honorary Citizen of Cluj-Napoca and was awarded a Honorary Doctorate degree of the Technical University of Iasi by the Rector.

Alan Willner and Giuseppe Caire are the new co-directors of the Communication Sciences Institute (CSI) and leaders of the communications group within the USC Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering department, effective immediately.

Professor Jerry Mendel will be presented with the 2008 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in June.

Jay Kuo is a recipient of a 2007 Research Grant from the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. The Okawa Foundation was established in Japan in 1986 to provide funding for and give recognition to new studies in the information and telecommunications fields.

Erdem Oz, a PhD student under the guidance of Professor Tom Katsouleas and Research Professor Patric Muggli was selected for the 2007 Best Student Poster prize at the Particle Accelerator Conference in Albquerque, New Mexico in July.

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering researcher Chongwu Zhou has been named Jack Munushian Professor.

Nanotechnologist Chongwu Zhou and colleagues at Purdue and Northwestern universities have designed the first transparent nano-transistors for reflective displays, ‘e-paper’ and ‘smart’ credit cards.

Gandhi Puvvada won the Provost's Prize for Teaching with Technology, presented at the First Annual USC Teaching with Technology Conference held on May 1.

Viktor Prasanna, professor in the Viterbi School's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

The much-honored USC electrical engineering alumnus is the inaugural co-winner of the the James Clerk Maxwell award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

A 26-year old electrical engineering student born in Suzhou and a 22-year old budding signal and image processing specialist from Tianjing will begin classes at the Viterbi School's university park campus in Los Angeles this fall as the first Ming Hsieh scholars.

A workshop to celebrate Solomon Golomb's 75th birthday attracts a bevy of international scholars.

The USC Viterbi School and Tsinghua University faculty establish a strategic partnership and build bridges of collaboration with a joint workshop.

Keith Chugg has been promoted to Professor of Electrical Engineering

A photo gallery featuring pictures taken during this annual event.

David B. Wittry, a Viterbi School distinguished emeritus professor of materials science and of electrical engineering, was known for pioneering work in electron probe analysis.

Sol Golomb was awarded the Viterbi Faculty Service Award and Krishna Nayak one of two Viterbi Junior Research Awards at the 2007 Viterbi Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon.

Eun Sok Kim has improved his team's radically new technique, announced last year, for making DNA microarrays, a basic tool of modern medicine and biology.

Dean Yannis Yortsos announces that Alexander A. Sawchuk, Systems Chair of the Viterbi School's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering will be the first holder of the Leonard Silverman Chair.

Maximizing energy efficiency and developing a variety of clean alternative energy sources must become a global priority if there is any chance of keeping carbon dioxide emissions at tolerable levels.

One of America's brilliant young engineers added still another honor to a lengthening list when he was named the first holder of the Viterbi Professorship in Engineering, effective July 1, 2007.

In the fifth annual Viterbi Lecture, Caltech’s Robert McEliece wows the audience with multimedia and humor.

A special IEEE half-day conference event celebrated the work and influence of computer scientist/electrical engineer Melvin A. Breuer.

Alexander Sawchuk and Bart Kosko came home from the University of Southern California Convocation, USC's solemn annual ceremony acknowledging academic excellence, with citations for distinction.

Chongwu Zhou, whose recent work on ingenious techniques to have carbon nanotubes self-assemble themselves into useful structures on sapphire bases, is the first winner of a new IEEE honor.

Prof. Elaine Chew has received a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.

Professor Sanjit K. Mitra of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) was elected a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) in October 2006.

The 2006 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Medal was awarded to Robert Scholtz of the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Prof. Moe Win of MIT "for pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communication science and technology."

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named Tomlinson Holman as the recipient of its 2007 Masaru Ibuka Award, recognizing his contribution to the development of advanced audio and cinema multi-channel playback systems.

Professors Urbashi Mitra and Antonio Ortega of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering have been elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Joint USC/Sprint Nextel Research on Third Generation Video Streaming Wins the International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP2006) Best Paper Award