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USC announces a joint biomedical engineering department, bridging medical and engineering schools to accelerate health care innovation
Building on decades of collaboration between the USC Viterbi and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the joint department reimagines the expansion of biomedical engineering into medicine.
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Viterbi School News
A discovery using graphene has produced a record-breaking high-temperature memory device, with implications for space exploration, deep-earth drilling, and the future of AI hardware.
Using AI paired with brain-machine interfaces, Dong Song wants to study how memories form in real life, and eventually help those who have lost the ability to make them.
The multitalented USC Viterbi professor was recognized by both the AAAI and IEEE in late November.
Multi-year effort positions ISI among a small number of research institutes certified to handle sensitive government data, ensuring continued access to defense contracts and national security research
The ICT pioneer who built systems that made Holocaust survivors immortal and brought museum exhibits to life is stepping back—but not stepping away.
Hosted by the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi, the first panel of The Games Week laid out in concrete terms what LA28 will require - and what it’s designed to leave behind.
During The Games Week at USC, leaders from LADWP, Southern California Edison, LA28 and the U.S. Green Building Council outlined how Los Angeles plans to supply reliable, low-carbon power and water to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In a panel event hosted by the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi, transportation leaders discuss how Los Angeles will move millions during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games - without building an entirely new network.
As part of The Games Week at USC, a panel convened by USC Viterbi's Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and USC Annenberg explored how storytelling, technology and access will shape how the world perceives the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Academic Departments
At USC Viterbi's AME department, Mechoptronics is the course students dread taking and spend the rest of their careers grateful they did.
How to follow the peak experience of a lunar landing? Earn a graduate degree from USC.
USC Viterbi senior Nicholas Kim, a biomedical engineering major, led the landmark study with hopes that it could one day help improve the treatment of dementia and other brain disorders.
Research from the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has unraveled the mystery of viscous fingering, in work that could be critical to groundwater remediation and oil recovery.
Professor Amy Childress recognized by the NAE for transforming wastewater into clean water and bridging academia with the real world
Medvidovic was recognized for "contributions to the foundations of software architectures and their application to software engineering."
Professor Shrikanth Narayanan recognized by the NAE for pioneering contributions to human-centered AI and speech technologies with wide-ranging societal impact
A new award-winning paper argues that a decades-old standard for measuring the value of information yields inconsistent results and that companies, hospitals, and government agencies may be systematically misprioritizing how they gather data.
USC School of Advanced Computing
Rooted in an interdisciplinary approach, the School of Advanced Computing, a unit of USC Viterbi, serves as the hub for advanced computing research and education at USC.
Recent Highlights
Public Interest Registry makes a gift to USC ISI in recognition of its nearly 40 years of operating B-Root and pioneering DNS privacy research.
USC Researchers Find New Approach to Exploring Mars with a Robot dog that Learns "New Tricks" to Support NASA’s Future Missions
USC researcher launches GRAIL just one day after OpenAI's competing platform, promising to turn rough notes into submission-ready papers in under an hour
New infrastructure will help evaluate data sharing techniques for healthcare, transportation, and other sectors as part of NSF's $10M privacy initiative
An Innovative
School-Within-A-School
Operating as a “school-within-a-school” under USC Viterbi, the SAC consists of the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science (CS), the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the Division of Computing Education (DCE). Moreover, the School partners closely with USC Viterbi’s two powerhouse institutes, the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).
Published on October 11th, 2016
Last updated on March 31st, 2026