Subu Goparaju was one of the "Infoscions" who attended the recent “thought sharing and collaboration event that brings together the best academicians, researchers, practitioners and thought leaders” at the USC Viterbi School.

Introduced by Hsieh Department chairman Eun Sok Kim, the renowned physicist spoke about academia's lost topics of science.

Faculty members from the Ming Hsieh and Computer Science departments teamed up with a Keck School professor to win the Best Technology Award at a recent conference on implantable medical devices held at USC.

"Born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, Maja Matarić originally wanted to study languages and art," begins a 5000-word feature entitled "Robots That Care." The ending: "But robotic interaction should not replace human interaction," she said. "It should only improve it."

Emily Mower's research may allow synthetic agents (robots and computer avatars) to understand human expressions of emotion. She presented her most recent findings at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association held in Brighton, UK.

The annual Ice Cream Social hosted by the Ming Hsieh EE Department was on 9/30/09.

Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman brought his message that current methods of teaching subjects like physics, chemistry and engineering are inefficient to about 100 USC faculty members -- and left behind continuing interest.

Nanophotonics specialist Michelle Povinelli receives both Army Research Office Young Investigator Award and National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Five-month old Charlotte Aquarelle Bayona Chew was the youngest listener to Dean Yannis C. Yortsos' September 23 report to engineering faculty and staff

Viterbi researchers Panayiotis Georgiou and Shrikanth Narayanan partner with communication and health professionals to create a speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system for clinics and emergency rooms.

The Hsieh Department professor's role in the Catalyst Workshop, a DOD-funded effort to train scientists and engineers as screenwriter/directors, is explored in an L.A. Times feature about the first film to come out of the program.

P. Daniel Dapkus of the Hsieh Department and Professor of Chemistry Mark Thompson discuss the research plans for the Energy Frontiers Research Center for Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Solid State Lighting, recently funded by the U.S. Department of Energy/ (Video)

The Ming Hsieh Department professor's new responsibilities include student recruitment and retention.

The New York Times article notes, "Alan E. Willner, an electrical engineer at the University of Southern California, is one of those academics (working with industry). He is an expert in photonics, using light photons instead of electrons to transmit information.”

Professor Eun Sok Kim was recently appointed Chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, beginning a three-year term running through 2012.

P. Daniel Dapkus will be awarded the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors’s (ISCS) 2009 Welker Award at its symposium at the end of August.

Thirty-eight students from the U.S., India and China wind up their USC projects — and many will return to the Viterbi School as grad students

The Voice of America Hindi language video channel focuses on the success of students from IIT Kharagpur in the Viterbi School's summer undergraduate research program

"'We’re responding to what we perceive are needs and demands,' said Dean Yannis Yortsos. 'We offer an immediate way for engineers out there to specialize in these new areas of economic growth.'"

Jeff Draper has been promoted to Research Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, effective immediately. His research is in computer architecture and chip design.

The Viterbi School of Engineering has made education for engineering professionals a top priority, ranking alongside graduate research and undergraduate study.

Dozens of the talented undergraduates spending summer at the Viterbi School working intensively with faculty gathered on a sunny Wednesday for burgers, hotdogs and conviviality.

A large and enthusiastic group gathered to toast a great Viterbi School success story -- ISI's MOSIS chip brokerage -- and the 22-year career of the director who orchestrated that success.

Gödel prizewinner Shang-Hua Teng comes to USC from Boston University; Dean Yortsos also names Kim to lead EE/E, extensions of chair terms in BME, Astani, and EE-Systems, and an interim appointment in AME.

Yong Chen (Epstein Department) and Andreas Molisch (Hsieh Department) are among 88 exceptional researchers selected to take part in the NAE's 15th annual U.S.Frontiers of Engineering symposium

The namesake donor of the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life, 2008 Viterbi School commencement keynoter and CEO/President of Wind River Systems Inc. is now a member of the university's governing board.

The National Science Foundation has named the Viterbi School's Stephen Cronin and Hossein Hashemi as winners of highly competitive grants for young researchers.

"Chunqi Jiang at the University of Southern California and her colleagues have come up with a dental plasma torch. [She] reckoned that a cold plasma rich in oxygen ions would do the job of breaking up biofilm without harming the patient." -- The Economist

Work by Dr. Mark Humayun and collaborators including Armand Tanguay of the Ming Hsieh Department was a featured segment on the evening newscast, and on MSNBC.

"Scanning electron microscopy showed complete destruction of endodontic biofilms inside a root canal after plasma treatment, according to Chunqi Jiang, a research assistant professor in USC's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering."

Andreas F. Molisch, an internationally noted researcher in wireless technologies and the winner of the Wireless Educator of the Year Award for 2009 from the Global Wireless Education Consortium, has joined the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.

The Ming Hsieh Department photonics expert is one of 60 researchers nationwide to be selected by the Hewlett-Packard Company program.

Selected engineering students at USC, Duke University, and Olin College who follow a special program with five challenge-related elements will receive a special honors designation along with their diplomas.

A pulsed-power device destroys dental decay bacteria biofilms rapidly and completely in early tests; may someday replace painful root canal surgery — and even find a place above home bathroom sinks.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, now a member of the elite Chinese institution's advisory board, signed an agreement creating a new joint research center on "Green and Smart" energy IT

Commencement Reception on May 15, 2009

USC researchers say they've made a big improvement in a new breed of electronic detectors for viruses and other biological materials — one that may be a valuable addition to the battle against epidemics.

In a ceremony in Beijing, Deans Yannis C. Yortsos and Shiyi Chen signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a unique link between their two schools.

The White House named Charles F. Bolden Jr. (MS - Systems Management '77), a former combat pilot, Marine Corps major general and veteran space shuttle commander -- and USC trustee as the space agency's next administrator.

Ching-Hua Chuan, Ph.D. alumna of Elaine Chew's Music Computation and Cognition Lab, is the subject of "The Great Gig," the cover story of the magazine of the Florida university where she now teaches.

Hsieh Department Professor C.C. Jay Kuo will continue as leader of the Signal and Image Processing Institute.

The ASSE Keillor award to Alice Parker “recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators.”

Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Technion Senior VP Paul Feigin signed a memorandum of understanding at a meeting in Haifa in early May.

The Viterbi School shines brightly at USC’s 126th Commencement, and at the Viterbi undergraduate and graduate ceremonies where standardbearer Torey Marshall and 2056 others won degrees

The USC faculty's representative body conferred Distinguished Service Awards for 2009 on Solomon Golomb, Sandeep Gupta, and Maja Matarić

Murali Annavaram and Timothy Pinkston of the Computer Engineering division have won election as senior members of the Association for Computing Machinery.

The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Systems is the professional home of two new holders of the honor bestowed by the International Fuzzy Systems Association.

A soft-spoken biomedical engineering grad with an electrical engineering emphasis will speak at the May 15 commencement ceremony as USC's 126th valedictorian.

Krishna Nayak has received a 2009 GE (General Electric) Healthcare Thought Leader Award for his research in magnetic resonance cardiac imaging.

The Global Wireless Education Consortium recognized Andreas F. Molisch for outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and collaboration with academic peers and the industry.

Konstantinos (Kostas) Psounis of the Ming Hsieh 
Department of Electrical Engineering has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Five Viterbi faculty and Associate Dean Margie Berti gave more than 100 doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows tips on academic careers.

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated the Viterbi School as the site of a Center for Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Solid State Lighting, to be directed by Ming Hsieh Department co-chair P. Daniel Dapkus.

Alan Willner is the winner of 2009 Leadership Award New Focus/Bookham Prize from the Optical Society of America

Ming Hsieh EE Faculty Member Murali Annavaram Elected Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member

This is the State of the School speech delivered by Senior Associate Dean John O'Brien at the April 23 Faculty-Staff Luncheon, with photos of all the award winners.

Konstantinos (Kostas) Psounis of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was recently elected to the rank of Senior Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Several Viterbi graduate students who received Annenberg Graduate Fellowships will demonstrate applications of their research at a symposium to be held at Town & Gown on April 27.

The Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life encourages students like Michelle Dee to develop talents beyond those taught in engineering classes.

The Viterbi School and the Olin College of Engineering have signed an agreement to make the Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program (VIP) available to select Olin students.

On the Today Show, Senior Associate Dean Maja Mataric‘ discusses the promise and potential of "socially assistive robotics," a term she invented, in the treatment of ASD.

Thomas Reed, Don Paul,and Narayana Murthy received honors at the 2009 Awards Banquet; Rachel Lauren sang, and a good time was had by all.

The Hsieh Department specialist has received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society Best Practice Award for pioneering work on now widely used "adaptive cruise control" systems.

"In the past, very talented kids would go into business school," said Yannis C. Yortsos. But now "they may go into engineering instead." ME senior Loni Iverson says she "became an engineer because of alternative energy."

Signals specialist's responsibilities will include teaching assistantships and other financial aid, faculty teaching assignments, and student recruiting and retention.

A collaboration of accelerator physicists, including researchers in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, has received $13 million in federal funding over the next two years to build a facility for advanced accelerator experimental tests.

In recent papers, Chongwu Zhou's research teams have dramatically demonstrated new possibilities for single-atom thick carbon cylinders as possible substitutes for traditional silicon chips, a $270+ billion/year business.

Imaging the soft tissues of the vocal tract in real-time could explain some of the mysteries of human speech production.

Chief Technology Officer Aber Whitcomb will work with teams of students developing new social website applications, which will preview on his company's popular portal.

A Washington Post feature focuses on socially assistive robots: "That term was coined by Maja J. Mataric´, director of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California, and her research group."

Complete coverage of the meeting held March 2-3 at Duke University with the Viterbi School and Olin College as co-sponsors and Dean Yannis C. Yortsos summarizing.

The Viterbi School's Roger Ghanem and Demetrios Spanos are bringing together "leading scientists from physics-based modeling, network science and social networks" for a two-day meeting.

This polyhedron is ready to download! (You can also catch up on what happened at the March 2-3 Summit at Duke University).

The distinguished senior scientist, now at Stanford, happily re-connected with numerous USC classmates, colleagues, collaborators, former students and old friends.

The Viterbi School's 'best of the best,' including six NAE members, gather to congratulate George Olah and Robert Scholtz for their election to engineering’s most prestigious organization.

Half Century Trojan Day was a homecoming of sorts for 16 silver-haired Trojans, all of whom graduated from USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering 50 years ago or more.

Electrical engineering professor Giuseppe Caire is working to make the promise of the iPhone come true.

Inventor of the laser says the technology was misunderstood at first, but within a relatively brief period, had found many useful applications.

Early Career Chair will support faculty who show exceptional distinction and promise within their fields.

At USC, Themos Kallos studied the development of next-generation particle accelerators by harnessing electric fields generated in plasmas.

Two Viterbi School faculty members are elected to engineering's most prestigious advisory body, making USC one of only six schools in the nation with two or more elected members each of the last two years.

An internationally reputed scholar in analog and digital signal and image processing in the Hsieh Department has won a prestigious engineering education award.

Five Viterbi School women graduates share their experiences making the transition to professional life in a lively Q & A with undergraduate juniors and seniors.

The Viterbi School chapter says work on a new water system in two small Honduran towns could begin this spring.

Faculty, staff and students gather to celebrate a new plaque commemorating the department's naming.

Alice Parker co-leads an NSF-funded study constructing a non-silicon-electronics- based 3D testbed in which nanotube "synapses" can be connected and then reconnected to understand how neuron signals spread in dense nerve tissue.

A team of electrical engineers at USC is applying nanocarbon technology to synthesize neural activity in the brain in a three-year, NSF-funded investigation.

Two years in the making, a project to pump fresh water into two towns in rural Honduras may break ground this spring, thanks to the Viterbi School's undergraduate engineering students.

Penn State University will salute one of its own — a Viterbi School professor — for outstanding accomplishments.

Ming Hsieh Department associate professor will receive the "2008 Outstanding Engineer Award."

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers turns the spotlight on Viterbi School engineers who have made exceptional contributions to their fields.

iPhone users are listening to more than 4000 radio stations thanks to work by Jin Pei Li (EE), Lecturer Dr. Marco Papa, Raed Shomali (CS) and Chaitanya Ramavajjala (CS).

A first-of-a-kind national engineering conference, to be held March 2-3, 2009, is designed to address key issues in sustainability, health, national security and quality of life.