Professor Melvin Breuer, received the 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) Lifetime Contribution Medal.

Associate Professor Bhaskar Krishnamachari, has been named among the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review magazine.

Jeffrey Draper working at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to aid in the creation of reliable methods to detect potential failures, inadvertent and deliberate, in integrated circuits (ICs).