The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience is actively recruiting new and existing faculty to jumpstart its convergent bioscience efforts. Drawn from across a broad spectrum of research fields, ranging from computational sciences and applied mathematics to nanoengineering and biology, this group of pioneers represents our human capital in the startup phase of convergence at USC. Diverse in age, ethnicity and expertise, they are already interacting and creating new collaborative interfaces and technological innovation spanning our entire science, engineering and medical enterprise.
(listed in alphabetical order)
Helen Berman, Ph.D.
Research Professor and Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emerita of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
James Boedicker, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Richard L. Brutchey, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Dani Byrd, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics
Vadim Cherezov, Ph.D.
Ester Dornsife Chair in Biological Sciences; Professor of Chemistry
Eun Ji Chung, Ph.D.
Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early Career Chair; Director, Transformative Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Medicine and Surgery
Francesco Cutrale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Research, Biomedical Engineering
Moh El-Naggar, Ph.D.
Dean’s Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Professor of Physics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry
Stacey Finley, Ph.D.
Nicole A. and Thuan Q. Pham Professor; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Quantitative and Computational Biology
Valery Fokin, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Peter Foster, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D.
Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Convergent Bioscience; Director, Translational Imaging Center
Cornelius Gati, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Quantitative and Computational Biology and Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz, Ph.D.
Gabilan Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Justin Haldar, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Director, Biomedical Imaging Group; Director, Signal and Image Processing Institute
James Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor (Research) of Biological Sciences
Khalil Iskarous, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics
Rehan Kapadia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vsevolod Katritch, Ph.D.
Professor of Quantitative & Computational Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology; Co-Director, Center for New Technologies in Drug Discovery and Development (CNT3D)
Steve Kay, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Provost Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Quantitative Computational Biology; Director of Convergent Bioscience; Co-Director, Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Center for Drug Development, NCCC
Carl Kesselman, Ph.D.
William H. Keck Professor of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Population and Public Health Sciences, and Biomedical Sciences
Mercedeh Khajavikhan, Ph.D.
IBM Early Career Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yasser Khan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Judith Kribelbauer-Swietek
Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Peter Kuhn, Ph.D.
University Professor; Dean’s Professor of Biological Sciences, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Urology; Director, Convergent Science Institute in Cancer
Gianluca Lazzi, Ph.D.
Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Electrical Engineering, Clinical Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Engineering; Fred H. Cole Professorship in Engineering; Director, Institute for Technology and Medical Systems
Jeremy Mason, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Research of Urology; Director of Data Science, Convergent Science Institute in Cancer
Alexander McDowell, R.D.I.
William Cameron Menzies Endowed Chair in Production Design; Professor of Practice in Media Arts; Director of USC World Building Media Lab and 5D Global Studio
Charles E. McKenna, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Director, Center for Drug Discovery
Ellis Meng, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Shrikanth Narayanan, Ph.D.
University Professor and Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Pediatrics; Research Director, Information Science Institute; Director, Ming Hsieh Institute
Krishna S. Nayak, Ph.D.
Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, the Signal and Image Processing Institute, the Dynamic Imaging Science Center and the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory
Niema Pahlevan, Ph.D.
Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair in Engineering and Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Medicine
Matthew Robert Pratt, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Ishwar K. Puri, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research and Innovation; Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Jayakanth Ravichandran, Ph.D.
Philip and Cayley MacDonald Endowed Early Career Chair; Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard W. Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
Remo Rohs, Ph.D.
Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science
Maryam Shanechi, Ph.D.
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Systems, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science
Andrew Steen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences
Terry Takahashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research) of Chemistry
Ye Tian, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jennifer Treweek, Ph.D.
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Peter Yingxiao Wang, Ph.D.
Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Kate White, Ph.D.
Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Director, Pancreatic Beta Cell Consortium (PBCC)
Yaoheng (Mack) Yang
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Cristina Zavaleta, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Wade Zeno, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science