Awards Stories
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
Shri Narayanan Honored With Awards From IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Receives McCluskey, Shannon-Nyquist technical achievement awards for work related to speech, language, multimedia and affective computing.…
February 15, 2024
Narayanan, Pedram, Medioni Named 2023 Fellows of Association for Computing Machinery
They’re among 68 ACM fellows honored for “transformative contributions to computing science and technology.”…
February 9, 2024
Xiang Ren Honored as one of MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 for the Asia-Pacific Region
A pioneer in Natural Language Processing, he advances AI’s ability to communicate with humans…
February 7, 2024
Three USC Viterbi Researchers Named IEEE Fellows for 2024
ISI’s Terry Benzel, ECE’s Mike Shuo-Wei Chen and Maryam Shanechi, are honored for their contributions.…
January 12, 2024
Eun Sok Kim, Chongwu Zhou Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professors are among 162 inductees in the class of 2023…
December 14, 2023
Dean Yannis Yortsos Receives 2023 HENAAC Chairman’s Award for STEM Leadership
Dean Yortsos Recognized as a Visionary Leader and Advocate for Diversity in Engineering…
November 7, 2023
Speeding into a New Era of Hypersonic Flight
Associate Professor Ivan Bermejo-Moreno receives a NASA Early Career Faculty Award for computational studies of hypersonic flight.…
November 3, 2023
Hangbo Zhao Receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award
The highly competitive program supports outstanding early career researchers developing innovative solutions to challenges faced by the Navy and Marine…
November 1, 2023
Neil Siegel Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation
ISE Professor and Alumnus recognized at the White House with the highest honor for technological innovation…
October 24, 2023
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for Reliable AI for MRI
$2.4 million grant will be used to develop new AI-powered algorithms that could lessen the need for higher-strength MRI machines…
October 18, 2023
Swabha Swayamdipta Wins Career-Defining Awards for Early Researchers
Combining her interest in computation and human language, Swabha Swayamdipta explores the growingly complex study of natural language processing.…
October 16, 2023
Six USC Viterbi Faculty Honored with NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty will boost USC research in disease modeling, groundwater systems, machine learning and…
July 25, 2023
Unbiased Medical Devices for All
Yasser Khan wins a prestigious Google Research Scholar Award for racial bias correction in a medical device that measures oxygen…
July 12, 2023
Kosko receives Hebb Award from International Neural Network Society
USC professor honored for his research work in the field of neural learning.…
June 30, 2023
Unfolding the Mystery of Proteins
Assistant professor Wade Zeno, an expert in proteins, wins the prestigious ESI MIRA award from the NIH…
May 31, 2023
Carl Kesselman Honored with 2023 IEEE Internet Award
The Information Sciences Institute Fellow will receive the prestigious award. …
May 15, 2023
USC Viterbi Faculty and Staff Awards 2023: “The Sapphire Anniversary”
The 45th anniversary of the awards luncheon honored the outstanding dedication and excellence of USC Viterbi faculty and staff.…
May 11, 2023
NAE’s 2023 Gordon Prize Ceremony Celebrates the Career of Azad Madni
For the second year in a row, USC hosts the top award in engineering education.…
May 4, 2023
Maja Matarić, Pioneer of “Robots That Care,” Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
USC Viterbi computer scientist joins luminaries such as Emmanuelle Charpentier and Lin-Manuel Miranda among 2023 members.…
April 19, 2023
ISI Researchers Win Best Paper Award at IEEE COMSNETS 2023
The winning paper describes the team’s work on defending against cyber attacks…
April 18, 2023
Shri Narayanan Receives the 2023 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
The award is the highest honor in the field of speech communication research.…
March 17, 2023
Jong-Shi Pang included in Research.com’s Top 500 Best Scientists for 2022
Pang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of operations research, optimization, and applied mathematics.…
February 13, 2023
4 USC researchers named AAAS fellows
Carolyn C. Meltzer, Massoud Pedram, Remo Rohs and Richard M. Watanabe join more than 40 USC faculty as fellows of…
February 1, 2023
Constantine Sideris One of 25 Researchers Honored by Office of Naval Research
USC Viterbi assistant professor receives three-year grant to pursue work in biomedical sensing, health monitoring.…
January 24, 2023
Azad Madni Receives NAE’s 2023 Gordon Prize
For second year in a row, a Trojan receives top award in engineering education…
January 5, 2023
Azad Madni Receives the Prestigious IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
Madni is being honored for pioneering contributions to model-based systems engineering, education, and industrial impact using interdisciplinary approaches…
January 5, 2023
USC’s Petros Ioannou, Gérard Medioni and J. Joshua Yang Elected as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The trio joins a distinguished class of 169 new inductees whose innovations have tangibly impacted society.…
December 16, 2022
USC Viterbi Researchers Named 2023 IEEE Fellows
USC Information Sciences Institute’s Carl Kesselman and Premkumar Natarajan, and Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari…
December 15, 2022
Yannis Yortsos Named Editor-In-Chief of PNAS Nexus
The USC Viterbi dean will oversee the prestigious journal published by the National Academy of Sciences in partnership with Oxford…
December 9, 2022
Maral Mousavi Receives NIH New Innovator Award to Create Nanosensors for the Nervous System
She will use the $2.3 million award to create sensors that will have game-changing applications for disorders such as Alzheimer’s…
November 4, 2022
Yolanda Gil Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Geoinformatics
The ISI researcher has brought artificial intelligence solutions to the geosciences.…
October 21, 2022
Shanechi Receives the One Mind 2022 Rising Star Award
Maryam Shanechi was honored for her unique engineering approach to mental health.…
October 19, 2022
Published on August 25th, 2020
Last updated on September 13th, 2024
