Sandeep Gupta

Computer Engineering (CEng) has contributed significantly to the stream of innovations that have enabled development of new communication, entertainment, and computation devices and services which have dramatically changed our lives. In the history of engineering, continuous development and improvements, accompanied by continuous decreases in cost, for a period of over five decades is virtually unparalleled. Despite CEng’s decades-long history of success this is indeed an exciting time to enter this field, since newly conceived applications and fundamental challenges facing the underlying implementation technology (CMOS) provide unique opportunities for significant innovations.

The CEng group at USC spans all sub-areas of the field, from design of VLSI chips to design of systems that span the planet (and beyond), and from models of transistors rooted in physics, to mathematical and algorithmic approaches, to economics. The division’s educational offerings include several specialized degrees at bachelors (BSEE-C, BSCES, masters (MSCENG, MSEE-VL, MSEE-CN), and doctoral levels (PhDCENG). Yet, the division also welcomes students who prefer to design their own individualized degree program by providing an extremely flexible degree program at every level (BSEE, MSEE, PhDEE).

Students interested in research have an even wider range of options. This is reflected in the research projects being directed by our faculty in diverse areas such as design of low power systems, design of asynchronous chips, design techniques to improve chip yield and resilience to soft-errors, design using carbon nano-tubes and other emerging technologies, quantum computing, emulation of brain's components and interconnections, parallel and distributed computing, reconfigurable computing, advanced memory systems for architectures, architectures that exploit 3-dimensional integration, optical interconnects, network modeling and theory, network information theory, sensor network theory and applications, active and power aware networks, cognitive radios, network control and economics, global network infrastructure and policy, mobile computing for health applications, design of power conversion and energy storage systems, smart grid, and smart oilfields.

Clearly, USC CEng programs allow each student to prepare for an illustrious career as an engineer or a researcher.
 

Welcome to USC CEng!

Sandeep Gupta, Ph.D.
Computer Engineering Division Director