Group member: Philip, Gino, Yvonne, Phoena
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California's oldest private
research university
Established: in 1880
Type: private and non-profit
Location: Los Angeles
Size: 900,000 m^2
Subject:
 95 undergraduate majors
 147 academic and
professional minors
Two primary campus
 University Park campus
 Health Sciences campus
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President:
 C. L. Max Nikias
 Since 2010
 Staff:
 Academic Staff: 4735
 Admin. Staff: 10,774
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Student:
 Postgarduates: 19,516
 Undergraduates: 17,380
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Los Angeles ,frontier town in the early 1870s
 Judge Robert Maclay Widney establishing a university in the
region
 in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees
 a donation of 308 lots of land from three members of the
community
 USC first with 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880.
 Today, USC has:
- more than 33,000 students & nearly 3,200 full-time faculty.
located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the
world
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Galen Center
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Home for basketball and volleyball
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Opened: October 12, 2006
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Capacity: 10,258
Doheny Library
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Located in the center of campus
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Opened: 1932
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Built by: Ralph Adams Cram
Medical Center
 Located 5 km from downtown Los Angeles and 11
km from the University Park campus
 major center for basic and clinical biomedical
research in the fields
of cancer, gene therapy,
the neurosciences,
and transplantation biology
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences
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Marshall School of Business
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School of Cinematic Arts
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Viterbi School of Engineering
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Gould School of Law
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School of Medicine of USC
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School of Policy, Planning, and Development
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Tommy Trojan
• major symbol of the university
• nickname of USC’s students
Mascot - Traveler
• Department overview
• Research projects and labs
• Research experience by undergraduates
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Interdisciplinary
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socially assistive robotics
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computer animation
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natural language processing
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computational neuroscience
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DNA computing
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computational economics
Visualizing the Internet –
A census of the Internet address space
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Shang-Hua Teng
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Chair, Computer Science Department
Seeley G. Mudd Professor
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
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Affiliated Research Professor of Mathematics
at MIT
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University
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RESEARCH: smoothed analysis of algorithms,
computational economics and game theory, spectral
graph theory, scientific computing, mathematical
programming, combinatorial optimization,
computational geometry and computer graphics.
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First program in game development
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the Domain Name System and the TCP/IP protocols
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Invention of DNA computing
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One of the first computer viruses and led the theoretical
study of the computer virus concept
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Home of one of the nation’s largest robotics programs
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Much-honored faculty includes five members of the National
Academy of Engineering and a Turing Award winner,
Leonard Adleman
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ICT Light Stage:
used by Hollywood
studios to create
photoreal digital actors.
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Can Robots Help Improve
the State of U.S. Healthcare?
Congress Wanted to Know
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socially assistive robotics
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helping people recover from
stroke
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elders suffering from chronic
conditions
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Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Natural Language, Vision
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Databases and Information Management
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Graphics, Games & Multimedia
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Robotics, Brain Theory, and Computational Neuroscience
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Software Systems and Engineering
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Systems, Distributed Systems, Communication Networks
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Theory and Computational Sciences
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Found by the National Science
Foundation
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Support active research by
undergraduate students
Featured project
Seminar: Professional ethics
Visit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Seminar: Computer Science research at USC
Seminar: Research methodology
Seminar: Research projects update by REU site students
Visit: Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
Seminar: Research projects final presentations and posters by REU site students
More readings:
http://www.usc.edu/
http://www.cs.usc.edu/