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)

Andrea Armani, Ph.D.

Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, and Chemistry

James Boedicker, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Dani Byrd, Ph.D.

Professor of Linguistics

Vadim Cherezov, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy

Eun Ji Chung, Ph.D.

The Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early Career Chair and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Surgery, and Medicine

Moh El-Naggar, Ph.D.

Dean’s Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Professor of Physics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry

Stacey Finley, Ph.D.

Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences

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, Biomedical Engineering, Physiology and Biophysics, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Pediatrics, Radiology and Ophthalmology; Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Convergent Bioscience; Director of Science Initiatives

Cornelius Gati, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology

Justin Haldar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

James Hicks, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Biological Sciences

Khalil Iskarous, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Rehan Kapadia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vsevolod Katritch, Ph.D.

Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology and Chemistry

Steve Kay, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Director of Convergent Bioscience and Provost Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences

Carl Kesselman, Ph.D.

Dean’s Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Center for Discovery Informatics; Information Sciences Institute Fellow

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

Peter Kuhn, Ph.D.

Dean’s Professor of Biological Sciences; Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, and Urology

Gianluca Lazzi, Ph.D.

Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Electrical Engineering, Clinical Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Engineering; Fred H. Cole Professorship in Engineering

Jeremy Mason, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Urology

Charles E. McKenna, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry & Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Ellis Meng, Ph.D.

Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair in 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.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology; Director, Dynamic Imaging Science Center; Director, Signal and Image Processing Institute; Director, Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory

Niema Pahlevan, Ph.D.

Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair in Engineering and Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Medicine

Jayakanth Ravichandran, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering; Philip and Cayley MacDonald Endowed Early Career Chair

Richard W. Roberts, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering

Remo Rohs, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics & 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

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

Kate White, Ph.D.

Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Director, Pancreatic Beta Cell Consortium (PBCC)

Cristina Zavaleta, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering