Catalogue 2008-09

• USC Viterbi School of Engineering
• Computer Science
  • Bachelor of Science
  • Graduate Degrees
  • Courses of Instruction

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Computer Science

Chair: Ramesh Govindan, Ph.D.

Faculty

Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering: Aristides A.G. Requicha, Ph.D.

David Packard Chair in Manufacturing Engineering: Stephen C-Y. Lu, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering)

Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering: Viktor Prasanna, Ph.D.

Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Melvin Breuer, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)

Henry Salvatori Chair in Computer Science: Leonard M. Adleman, Ph.D.

TRW Professor of Software Engineering: Barry Boehm, Ph.D.

Professors: Leonard Adleman, Ph.D. (Molecular Biology); Michael Arbib, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering); Barry Boehm, Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Ramesh Govindan, Ph.D.; Ellis Horowitz, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Ming-Deh Huang, Ph.D.; Maja Matarić, Ph.D. (Neuroscience Center); Dennis McLeod, Ph.D.; Gerard Medioni, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Aiichiro Nakano, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics); Ramakant Nevatia, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Aristides Requicha, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Paul Rosenbloom, Ph.D.; Milind Tambe, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Ph.D.; Leana Golubchik, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Laurent Itti, Ph.D.; Sven Koenig, Ph.D.; Neno Medvidovic, Ph.D.; Ulrich Neumann, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Stefan Schaal, Ph.D. (Neuroscience Center); Cyrus Shahabi, Ph.D.; Gaurav Sukhatme, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)

Assistant Professor: David Kempe, Ph.D.

Joint Professors: Irving Biederman, Ph.D. (Psychology); Edward Blum, Ph.D. (Mathematics); Melvin Breuer, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Todd Brun, Ph.D.; Tim Ting Chen, Ph.D. (Computational Molecular Biology); Kai Hwang, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Rajiv Kalia, Ph.D. (Physics); Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); C-C Jay Kuo, Ph.D. (Signal and Image Processing); Stephen Lu, Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Shri Narayanan, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Fernando Ordonez, Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Viktor Prasanna, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Konstantinos Psounis, Ph.D.; C.S. Raghavendra, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Irving Reed, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Priya Vashishta, Ph.D. (Material Science, Physics); Michael Waterman, Ph.D. (Mathematics); Richard Weinberg, Ph.D. (Cinema/Television); John Wilson, Ph.D. (Geography)

Adjunct Professors: Michael Carey, Ph.D., Danny Cohen, Ph.D.; Sukhan Lee, Ph.D.; Rick Selby, Ph.D.; Sethu Vijayakumar, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professors: Steve Chien, Ph.D.; Larry Matthies, Ph.D.; Zhengyou Zhang, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professors: Aude Billard, Ph.D.; Alexander Egyed, Ph.D.; Andrew Howard, Ph.D.; Auke Ijspeert, Ph.D.; Steve Jacobs, Ph.D.; Marcelo Kallmann, Ph.D.; Sofus Macskassy, Ph.D.; Xin Wang, Ph.D.

Research Professors: Paul Cohen, Ph.D.; Jerry Hobbs, Ph.D.; Carl Kesselman, Ph.D.; Craig Knoblock, Ph.D.; Herbert Schorr, Ph.D.; William Swartout, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professors: Paul Debevec, Ph.D.; Yolanda Gil, Ph.D.; Jonathan Gratch, Ph.D.; Mary Hall, Ph.D.; John Heidemann, Ph.D.; Eduard Hovy, Ph.D.; Kevin Knight, Ph.D.; Robert Lucas, Ph.D.; Daniel Marcu, Ph.D.; Stacey Marsella, Ph.D.; Robert Neches, Ph.D.; Wei-Min Shen, Ph.D.; Joseph Touch, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professors: Jose Luis Ambite, Ph.D.; Ann L. Chervenak, Ph.D.; Ewa Deelman, Ph.D.; Pedro Diniz, Ph.D.; Alexandre Francois, Ph.D.; Andrew Gordon, Ph.D.; Randall Hill, Ph.D.; Jihie Kim, Ph.D.; Kristina Lerman, Ph.D.; Rajiv Maheswaran, Ph.D.; Clifford Neuman, Ph.D.; Pedro Szekely, Ph.D.; David Traum, Ph.D.; Michael Van Lent, Ph.D.; Suya You, Ph.D.

Lecturers: Claire Bono; William Cheng, Ph.D.; Michael Crowley, Ph.D.; Massoud Ghyám-Khah; Victor LaCour; Krishnamurthy Narayanaswamy, Ph.D.; Shawn Shamsian, Ph.D.; David Wilczynski, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: George Bekey, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering); Irving S. Reed, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)