USC Viterbi School of Engineering
For the First Time, Scientists Have Mapped the Genetics of How the Brain Ages, Region by Region
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.
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Viterbi School News
Inge and her late husband, Hal Marcus (M.S. ’59) have given back to higher ed across many decades, including USC.
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.
A USC Viterbi undergraduate and her professor developed a method that allows AI to fix its own knowledge gaps in real time.
The findings carry stark implications for elections, public health, and anyone who relies on social media for information
A 4.5-meter dish antenna on the USC campus will join 33 other ground stations contributing to a study of how spacecraft signals behave at lunar distance.
A tour with Paul Ronney, Chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, through three laboratories that ask the same fundamental question: how does fluid move, and why?
Miryam Huang is the first USC student to win the prestigious Machtey Award, recognized for solving a cryptographic problem first posed in 1976 and later asked as an open question in the quantum setting, with important implications for quantum cryptography.
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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.
New research from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering harnesses focused ultrasound to reprogram solid tumors, making them more effective targets for immune cells.
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
USC Viterbi Professor Giacomo Nannicini makes quantum optimization accessible in new book
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 19th, 2026