Overview
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering (formerly the USC School of Engineering) is the engineering school of the University of Southern California. It was renamed following a $52 million donation by Andrew J. Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm.
With over $135 million in external funding support, the school is among the nation's highest in volume of research activity. The Viterbi School of Engineering is currently ranked No. 9 in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
The school is headed by Dean Yannis Yortsos. Its research centers have played a major role in development of multiple technologies, including early development of the Internet when USC researcher Jonathan Postel was an editor of communications-protocol for the fledgling internet, also known as ARPANET. The school's faculty has included Irving Reed, Leonard Adleman, Solomon W. Golomb, Barry Boehm, Clifford Newman, Richard Bellman, Lloyd Welch, Alexander Sawchuk, Maja Matarić, and George V. Chilingar.
Major research centers
Alfred Mann Institute – business incubator for medical device development in preparation for commercialization
Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems – National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) – interdisciplinary national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) – research the relationship between systems, software, and users.
Information Sciences Institute (housed at separate facilities in Marina del Rey, California and Arlington, Virginia) – played a major role in the development of the Internet, and continues to be a major research center in computer science
Institute for Creative Technologies – conducts research in virtual reality and immersive digital environment
Integrated Media Systems Center – National Science Foundation's Exclusive Engineering Research Center for multimedia and Internet research
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Partner Institution – Current Research
USC + Amazon Center on Secure & Trusted Machine Learning
USC ECE-ISE Meta Center for Research and Education in AI and Learning – center to advance AI research and increase accessibility in AI education
USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center - conducts research in quantum computing
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