Catalogue 2008-09

• USC Viterbi School of Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
  • Degree Requirements
  • Courses of Instruction

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Electrical Engineering

Co-Chairs: Alexander A. Sawchuk, Ph.D. (Systems); P. Daniel Dapkus, Ph.D. (Electrophysics)

Associate Chair (Systems): Todd Brun, Ph.D.

Associate Chair (Curriculum): Edward Maby, Ph.D.

Faculty

Lloyd F. Hunt Chair in Electrical Power Engineering: Tsen-Chung Cheng, Sc.D.

William M. Keck Chair in Engineering: P. Daniel Dapkus, Ph.D.

Philip & Cayley MacDonald Early Career Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ph.D.

Fred W. O'Green Chair in Engineering: Leonard M. Silverman, Ph.D.

Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair: Hossein Hashemi, Ph.D.

Jack Munushian Early Career Chair: Chongwu Zhou, Ph.D.

George T. Pfleger Chair in Electrical Engineering: Robert W. Hellwarth, Ph.D.

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

Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering: Viktor Prasanna, Ph.D. (Computer Science)

Leonard Silverman Chair: Alexander A. Sawchuk, Ph.D.

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair in Communications: Solomon W. Golomb, Ph.D.

Fred H. Cole Professor of Electrical Engineering: Robert A. Scholtz, Ph.D.

William M. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering: William H. Steier, Ph.D.

Viterbi Professor of Engineering: Shrikanth Narayanan, Ph.D.

Professors: Michael Arbib, Ph.D. (Computer Science, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering); Stanley P. Azen, Ph.D. (Preventive Medicine and Biomedical Engineering); George A. Bekey, Ph.D. (Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Speech Science and Technology); Melvin Breuer, Ph.D.* (Computer Science); Giuseppe Carie, Ph.D.; Tsen-Chung Cheng, Sc.D.; John Choma, Ph.D.*; Keith M. Chugg, Ph.D.; P. Daniel Dapkus, Ph.D. (Materials Engineering); Michel Dubois, Ph.D.; Jack Feinberg, Ph.D. (Physics); Solomon W. Golomb, Ph.D. (Mathematics); Martin Gundersen, Ph.D. (Materials Engineering, Physics); Sandeep Gupta, Ph.D.; Robert W. Hellwarth, Ph.D. (Physics); Tomlinson Holman, B.S. (Cinematic Arts); Ellis Horowitz, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Kai Hwang, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Petros Ioannou, Ph.D.; Keith Jenkins, Ph.D.; Edmond Jonckheere, Ph.D. (Mathematics); Robert Kalaba, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering, Economics, Speech Science and Technology); Thomas Katsouleas, Ph.D.; Eun Sok Kim, Ph.D.; Bart Kosko, Ph.D.; Chung-Chieh Kuo, Ph.D.; P. Vijay Kumar, Ph.D.; Richard Leahy, Ph.D.* (Biomedical Engineering, Radiology); Anthony F. J. Levi, Ph.D. (Physics); William C. Lindsey, Ph.D.; Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering); Gerard Medioni, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Jerry M. Mendel, Ph.D.; Urbashi Mitra, Ph.D.; Shrikanth Narayanan, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Ramakant Nevatia, Ph.D. (Computer Science); C. L. Max Nikias, Ph.D.; John O'Brien, Ph.D.; Antonio Ortega, Ph.D.; Alice C. Parker, Ph.D.*; Massoud Pedram, Ph.D.; Timothy Pinkston, Ph.D.; V. Prasanna, Ph.D. (Computer Science); C. Raghavendra, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Aristides Requicha, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Michael J. Safonov, Ph.D.; Steven B. Sample, Ph.D.; Alexander A. Sawchuk, Ph.D.*; Robert A. Scholtz, Ph.D.; Leonard Silverman, Ph.D.; John Silvester, Ph.D.; William H. Steier, Ph.D.; Armand R. Tanguay, Jr., Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science); Andrew J. Viterbi, Ph.D.; William G. Wagner, Ph.D. (Physics); Charles L. Weber, Ph.D.; Alan Willner, Ph.D.*; Curt F. Wittig, Ph.D. (Chemistry and Physics); Stanley M. Yamashiro, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering); Zhen Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: Peter Beerel, Ph.D.; Todd Brun, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Leana Golubchik, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Christos Kyriakakis, Ph.D.; Daniel Lidar, Ph.D.; Ulrich Neumann, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Aluizio Prata, Jr., Ph.D.*; Gaurav Sukhatme, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Chongwu Zhou, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Steven Cronin, Ph.D.; Igor Devetak, Ph.D.; Hossein Hashemi, Ph.D.; Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Krishna Nayak, Ph.D.; Michael Neely, Ph.D.; Michelle Povinelli, Ph.D.; Konstantinos Psounis, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professors: Eric Fossum, Ph.D.; Dan Goebel, Ph.D.; Kirby Holte, Ph.D.; Mostafa Shiva, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professors: Serge Dubovitsky, Ph.D.; Alan Kost, Ph.D.; Min-Cheol Oh, Ph.D.; Edgar Satorius, Ph.D.; Marvin Stone, Ph.D.; Ali A. Zahid, M.S.

Research Associate Professors: Joseph Bannister, Ph.D.; John Granacki, Ph.D.; Laura Marcu, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering); Patric Muggli, Ph.D.; Keith L. Price, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Joe Touch, Ph.D. (Computer Science)

Research Assistant Professors: Jeff Draper, Ph.D.; Panayiotis Georgiou, Ph.D.; Sungbok Lee, Ph.D.; Bindu Madhavan, Ph.D.

Professor of Engineering Practice: Gandhi Puvvada, M.S.

Senior Lecturers: Edward Maby, Ph.D.; Mark Redekopp, M.S.; Monte Ung, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: Clarence Crowell, Ph.D. (Materials Science); Alvin Despain, Ph.D.; Robert M. Gagliardi, Ph.D.; Murray Gershenzon, Ph.D.* (Materials Science); Hans H. Kuehl, Ph.D.*; Kurt Lehovec, Ph.D. (Materials Science); Irving S. Reed, Ph.D. (Mathematics); Jan Smit, Ph.D. (Materials Science); William G. Spitzer, Ph.D. (Physics and Materials Science); Lloyd Welch, Ph.D. (Mathematics)

Emeritus Instructor: Sydney A. Wielin, B.S.

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