Awards Stories
USC’s Yasser Khan Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to Develop Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Brain Injury
USC researcher Yasser Khan, a 2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient, will develop chemical and physiological sensors to help detect…
October 14, 2026
Two USC Viterbi Professors Named INFORMS Fellows
Ali Abbas and Johannes Royset receive one of the highest honors in operations research for helping people make better decisions…
October 12, 2026
USC Professor Azad Madni Awarded 2026 John Fritz Medal
Azad M. Madni has been awarded the 2026 John Fritz Medal, widely regarded as engineering’s highest honor and often called…
October 12, 2026
USC Robotics Leader Maja Matarić Named to Forbes 50 Over 50: Innovation List
A pioneer of socially assistive robotics, Matarić has spent more than 2 decades developing robots that “help people help themselves”…
October 1, 2026
Carl Kesselman Wins 2026 HPDC Achievement Award
USC pioneer honored for grid-computing breakthroughs that helped reshape large-scale science and anticipated the cloud…
September 18, 2026
USC Computer Science Chair Nenad Medvidović Inducted as ACM Fellow
Recognized for foundational contributions to software architecture and large-scale systems design, Medvidović reflects on research, mentorship and solving problems that…
July 2, 2026
Professor Azad Madni Honored as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Professor Azad Madni is one of 56 highly accomplished engineers from around the world selected as 2026 Fellows of the…
May 20, 2026
The People Behind the Work: USC Viterbi Honors Staff and Faculty at 2026 Awards
Annual ceremony highlights the contributions of staff and faculty who support the school’s research, teaching and operations.…
May 11, 2026
How Watching Living Cells Could Transform Disease Research and Treatment
USC biomedical engineer Keyue Shen has been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows for developing tools that measure how…
April 23, 2026
Yannis C. Yortsos Named 2026 USC Presidential Medallion Honoree
The Presidential Medallion is USC’s highest honor and is awarded to individuals who have greatly contributed to USC in areas…
April 19, 2026
Google Awards $450,000 to ISE Epstein Department researchers
ISE faculty wins five competitive awards for work in AI, transportation, public health, mathematics and education…
April 9, 2026
Multi-fingered Robots Could Transform Shipboard Operations and Autonomous Maintenance
USC Viterbi Researcher Received Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program Award With Upcoming Study on Dexterous Robotics…
April 7, 2026
Paul Ronney Named AAAS Fellow
Ronney was recognized for his contributions to combustion science.…
April 6, 2026
Professor Yan Liu Receives Two Top Honors – In One Hour
The multitalented USC Viterbi professor was recognized by both the AAAI and IEEE in late November.…
March 27, 2026
Your Company Could be Buying the Wrong Information
A new award-winning paper argues that a decades-old standard for measuring the value of information yields inconsistent results and that…
March 18, 2026
USC Professor Elected to Prestigious Academies for AI and Systems Engineering Work
Neil Siegel elected to prestigious academies for research on when artificial intelligence is ready for critical systems.…
February 18, 2026
AI for Soldiers, Movies, and Children: USC Engineer Elected to National Academy
Professor Shrikanth Narayanan recognized by the NAE for pioneering contributions to human-centered AI and speech technologies with wide-ranging societal impact…
February 10, 2026
Closing the Gap in Water Reuse: USC Engineer Elected to National Academy
Professor Amy Childress recognized by the NAE for transforming wastewater into clean water and bridging academia with the real world…
February 10, 2026
Nenad Medvidovic named an ACM Fellow
Medvidovic was recognized for “contributions to the foundations of software architectures and their application to software engineering.”…
January 22, 2026
A USC Viterbi Professor and A USC Librarian Unite in New Course to Fight Misinformation
“Finding information is no problem. Finding accurate information is a little trickier.”…
December 17, 2025
Three USC Viterbi Professors Named Fellows of National Academy of Inventors
Shang-Hua Teng, S.K. Gupta and Massoud Pedram receive the prestigious honor in recognition of their contributions to innovation, invention and…
December 11, 2025
Azad Madni Honored by ASME with Spirit of St. Louis Medal
Azad Madni to receive ASME’s Spirit of St. Louis Medal at 2026 ASME SSDM…
December 1, 2025
USC Researcher Wins Prestigious Computing Award for Scientific Workflow Innovations
USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute computer scientist Ewa Deelman, whose software has helped detect gravitational waves and map earthquake risks,…
November 19, 2025
Maral Mousavi Wins Prestigious International Award in Electroanalytical Sciences
Mousavi, an expert in electrochemical sensors for at-home and point-of-care testing, has been honored with the 2026 Royce W. Murray…
November 3, 2025
The Society of Women Engineers Recognizes Azad Madni
Madni to receive the 2025 Rodney Chipp Memorial Award from SWE…
September 12, 2025
Hangbo Zhao Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Advanced Manufacturing Research
The $546,713 award will support Zhao’s pioneering work in high-resolution manufacturing of stretchable electronics.…
July 30, 2025
Two USC Professors Win Inaugural Google Junior Faculty Awards
Robin Jia and Ibrahim Sabek among 50 assistant professors nationwide to receive $100,000 grants for computing research.…
July 17, 2025
Dean Yortsos Awarded Honorary Doctorate
National Technical University of Athens, where Yortsos completed his undergraduate studies, held a ceremony his honor on May 29.…
May 30, 2025
Zhenglu Li Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Materials Research
The $595,000 award will support Li’s pioneering work in complex quantum materials.…
May 28, 2025
Maja Matarić Receives 2024 ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award
Maja Matarić receives the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics for pioneering socially…
May 28, 2025
Spotlight on Extraordinary Achievements
The 2025 Faculty and Staff Awards celebrated anniversaries, major milestones and faculty and staff achievements…
April 30, 2025
USC Viterbi Faculty Elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
Two leading researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering join the ranks of AAAS fellows, one of the most…
March 28, 2025
Three USC Viterbi Professors Named 2024 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Wei Wu and Theodore Tsotsis received the prestigious honor in recognition of their exceptional contributions to innovation, invention…
December 16, 2024
C.-C. Jay Kuo Honored as the Ming Hsieh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
President Folt, Dean Yortsos and Ming Hsieh himself attend ceremony honoring Dr. Kuo and his decades’ worth of accomplishments.…
October 28, 2024
USC Viterbi’s Yasser Khan Receives Coveted Packard Fellowship
Packard Foundation recognizes Khan’s ideas for using a miniaturized sensor network of brain implants and ingestible sensors to study brain-gut…
October 15, 2024
Behnam Jafarpour Receives Prestigious SPE International Data Science Award
Jafarpour is a professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and an expert in subsurface…
September 24, 2024
Shri Narayanan to Receive 2025 IEEE Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award
Honor is named for the legendary AT&T Bell Labs researcher where Shri started his career.…
September 13, 2024
Maryam Shanechi Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist for 2nd Year in a Row
Recognized for having “Pioneered research at the intersection of engineering, AI, and neuroscience to develop advanced neurotechnologies.”…
September 12, 2024
Azad Madni Receives Prestigious National Awards
University professor elected as AIAA honorary fellow and receives Distinguished Career Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences.…
June 6, 2024
Renyuan Xu Honored with Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
An expert in harnessing probability for decision-making, Xu was selected for the National Science Foundation’s leading award for junior faculty.…
June 3, 2024
Maja Matarić Receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Maja Matarić receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award for groundbreaking contributions in distributed robotics, multi-robot coordination, and socially assistive robotics…
May 22, 2024
Celebrating USC Viterbi’s Excellence
The 2024 Faculty & Staff Awards highlighted important anniversaries, major milestones and faculty and staff achievements…
April 26, 2024
Andrea Hodge and Gaurav Sukhatme Elected 2023 AAAS Fellows
Hodge and Sukhatme join more than 40 USC peers previously inducted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science,…
April 18, 2024
Paul Newton Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
Viterbi AME Professor, Paul Newton, will use the fellowship to investigate cancer models…
April 18, 2024
Associate Professor Kelly Sanders to Advise the White House on Clean Energy Policy
Sanders has been appointed 2024 Assistant Director for Energy Systems Innovation at the White House.…
April 2, 2024
Mengjie Yu Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Honored for proposal titled ‘On-chip electrical synthesis of few-cycle light via optical frequency comb.’…
March 20, 2024
USC names 7 faculty members University – and Distinguished Professors, 3 with USC Viterbi appointments
Petros Ioannou, Peter Kuhn, and Surya Prakash are among the faculty selected for their research leadership.…
March 7, 2024
USC Viterbi’s Shri Narayanan Named USC Vice President for Presidential Initiatives
Professor Narayanan will focus on bringing together President Folt’s “moonshots” and expanding their reach.…
February 23, 2024
Wade Hsu Wins IEEE Photonics Society’s 2024 Young Investigator Award
Recognized for ‘seminal work on bound states in the continuum in optics, and for breakthroughs in computational electromagnetics and imaging.’…
February 22, 2024
Mitul Luhar joins the National Academies’ New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Luhar will be part of the 2024-26 cohort of 26 outstanding early and mid-career scientists, engineers and medical professionals selected…
February 20, 2024
Published on August 25th, 2020
Last updated on October 29th, 2026