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).

Kai Hwang, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, received the 2011 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) Founder's Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of parallel processing. The award, sponsored by the Elsevier Publishing Company, was presented on May 18 in Anchorage, Alaska, at the 25th year celebration of the IEEE IPDPS.

Bhaskar Krishnamachari of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering will receive the 2010 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical and Computer Engineer Award. Eta Kappa Nu is the honor society for electrical and computer engineering. This award is presented to a young electrical and computer engineer for outstanding technical achievements, meritorious service in the interests of humankind, cultural and aesthetic achievements, and professional activities.

Assistant Professor Murali Annavaram of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering has been appointed to the Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair. The appointment recognizes Murali's exceptional distinction and promise as a junior faculty member in his field.

Professor Massoud Pedram was the keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Physical Design, held March 28-30, 2011 in Santa Barbara, CA.

Professor Massoud Pedram, jointly with Professor Chang of Seoul National University, gave a tutorial on "Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems" at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, held March 14-16, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA.

Mel Breuer has been named the recipient of the John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year award from the Engineering Council of the San Fernando Valley. This award recognizes his exemplary leadership and contributions as an educator, researcher, scholar and administrator over four decades, and his job as serving as a role model who inspires and supports students.

The award is presented during the Opening Ceremony of the DATE2011 conference which will take place from 14-18 March 2011 in Grenoble, France.

Peter Beerel, Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering is appointed as Faculty Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering. In this capacity, Peter will assist in launching and managing the newly endowed Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition. He will also serve to manage the relationship and coordination with related USC-wide efforts.

Massoud Pedram, Professor of EE at USC, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Energy Efficient Enterprise Computing and Green Datacenters" at the International Workshop on IT and Future Society, Jeju Island, South Korea on October 8th, 2010.

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Ph.D.student Weirong Jiang and his advisor Viktor Prasanna won a best paper award at the recent International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2010). The paper is entitled "Architecture-Aware Data Structure Optimization for Power-Efficient Internet Protocol (IP) Lookup."

Murali Annavaram, assistant professor in our department, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This prestigious award supports the early career-development activities of faculty who most effectively integrate research and education within their academic institutions.

Mark received his B.S. in Computer Engineering/Computer Science from USC 1999 and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from USC in 2001. He was appointed Lecturer at USC in 2002, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005.

Bhaskar Krishnamachari, associate professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2010 Frederick Emmons Terman Award of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Electrical and Computer Engineering Division.

Professor Melvin Breuer presented an invited paper at the prestigious IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference in June, 2010 held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim Calif. Breuer discussed the controversial yet titillating concept of using defective VLSI chips in applications where they result in acceptable performance to the end user.

Viterbi School graduate student Viviane Ghaderi has won a $100,000 competitive grant from the wireless telecommunications and technology company Qualcomm. The grant will enable research into how the brain's non-neuron parts contribute to brain function. Her advisor on the project is professor Alice Parker at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.

Viktor Prasanna and Ph.D. student, Weirong Jiang received the Best Paper Award for the International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2010). The Best Paper Award ceremony will take place at the Frontier of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas on June 15th.

Bhaskar Krishnamachari's research group, with Ph.D. student Scott Moeller as the principal author, received the best paper award for the information processing (IP) track at the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN, April 2010).

Rahul Jain, assistant professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Systems, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This prestigious award supports the early career-development activities of faculty who most effectively integrate research and education within their academic institutions.

Viktor Prasanna (EE-S, CS)and two other Viterbi School faculty are now Fellows of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. " The election of Mike, Shri and Viktor as AAAS Fellows is a great testament to their caliber and accomplishments and reflects highly on the whole faculty of the Viterbi School." said Dean Yannis C. Yortsos. "I cannot be more pleased with their recognition, which is surely only one of many to come."

Bhaskar Krishnamachari has been appointed as the inaugural Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering, effective August 16, 2009. The appointment recognizes Bhaskar's exceptional distinction and promise as an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering.

Viktor Prasanna received the outstanding achievement award at the 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP '09). The citation reads: In Recognition of His Leadership and Outstanding Research Contributions to the Field of Reconfigurable Computing.

Viktor Prasanna gave a keynote address at the 2009 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms. The meeting was held July 14-16. The title of his keynote was Algorithm Design for Reconfigurable Computing Systems.

Dr. Alice Parker is the features speaker at the North Dakota EPSCoR Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) State Conference on September 24, 2009. Dr. Parker, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, studies the feasibility of creating a synthetic brain with the use of carbon nanotubes.

A Fully Interdisciplinary Approach to Capstone Design Courses. This paper reviews and publishes the piloting of a program to mix the embedded systems capstone design course in the Ming Hsieh department of Electrical Engineering with Marketing 446, New Product Development and Fine Arts 402, Advanced Design Projects. Teams of students from their respective disciplines work together to define, prototype, and market a consumer electronic device.

USC faculty members Steven Anderson, Glenn Clark and Mark Redekopp were awarded the provost's Teaching With Technology grants on May 26, 2009. Redekopp is a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Redekopp received a grant of $9,500 to create an "inverted classroom" where traditional lecture material comprising basic knowledge transfer and low-level details are moved into video modules that can be accessed by students outside the classroom.

The appointment of Electrical Engineering Professor Timothy Pinkston as Sr. Associate Dean of Engineering will be on enhancing faculty and student recruitment and retention efforts across the school.

Jeff Draper has been promoted to Research Associate Professor in our Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, effective immediately. Jeff received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1987, and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, in 1990 and 1993 respectively.

Pedram to deliver the keynote speech at the 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, which will be held in San Francisco, CA, August 2-6, 2009. The title of his talk is "Green Computing: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Information Processing Systems in an Energy-Constrained World."

Murali Annavaram was recently elected to the rank of Senior Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The criteria for advancement to this rank are: technical leadership (including research and education); technical contributions (including publications and textbooks); and professional contributions (service).

Timothy Pinkston was recently elected to the rank of Senior Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The criteria for advancement to this rank are: technical leadership (including research and education); technical contributions (including publications and textbooks); and professional contributions (service).

Konstantinos (Kostas) Psounis has been promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, with tenure, effective immediately. Kostas received the Diploma (B.S.) in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2003 respectively.

Alice Parker will be the 2009 recipient of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. This award recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators who have an exceptional record in teaching engineering students, along with strong records of research and service.

Konstantinos (Kostas) Psounis of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was recently elected to the rank of Senior Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The criteria for advancement to this rank are: technical leadership (including research and education); technical contributions (including publications and textbooks); and professional contributions (service).

Murali Annavaram of our department was recently elected as Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member. Qualifications for this distinction are at least ten years of professional practice and five years of significant performance as demonstrated by substantial engineering responsibility or achievement, publication of engineering and technical papers, books or inventions, and the development and teaching of engineering courses.

Dr. Pedram will deliver the keynote talk at the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI in Boston, Massachusetts on May 11, 2009. The title of his talk is "Green Computing: Reducing Energy Cost and Carbon Footprint of Information Processing Systems."

Massoud Pedram will serve as the General Co-chair of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France (May 30-June, 2010)

Timothy Pinkston was recently elected Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Fellows.

Kostas Psounis, of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering of the Viterbi School of Engineering in Computer Engineering, was recently elected as Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Members.

Prof. Beerel's research field is in asynchronous circuits and design tools. Asynchronous circuits have many benefits in high performance network and interconnection applications. They offer lower delay and consume less energy than functionally equivalent synchronous circuits because they do not clock unless useful data is actually being processed. Peter is one of the leading research pioneers in this subject.

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering faculty member Viktor Prasanna will receive a 2009 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award of the Pennsylvania State University. Each year the Penn State College of Engineering honors the professional achievements of a select group from more than 75,000 living graduates. The award will be conferred in a ceremony on April 27, 2009 at the Penn State campus.

USC Viterbi School of Engineering launched a new software research and education center at USC funded by Infosys. The center is the first to be supported outside of India by Bangalore-based Infosys. Professor Viktor Prasanna is co-director of the center.

Peter Beerel's new company TimeLess Design Automation is highlighted in a Trojan Family Magazine article.

I am very pleased to announce that Rahul Jain will join our Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering faculty in August 2008 as Assistant Professor.

Murali Annavaram is a recipient of the 2008 IBM Faculty Awards. The IBM Faculty Awards are a competitive worldwide program intended to: foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research and development; and promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines that are strategic to IBM.

Bhaskar Krishnamachari has been honored with the Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring in the category “Faculty to Graduate Mentoring.”

The Electrical Engineering department’s embedded system design course, taught by Dr. Allan Weber and Mark Redekopp has teamed up with students from the Marshall School’s new product development marketing class taught by Dr. Therese Wilbur.

LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL: A story featured the conference First Look LA, co-sponsored by USC, UCLA and Caltech and held this year at USC. The conference brings together academic entrepreneurs and investors. Peter Beerel of the USC Viterbi School was among the academic entrepreneurs at the event, the story noted. "I've been involved in start-ups before, but this time it's my baby," said Beerel, whose proposed company Timeless Design Automation has patented technology aimed at enhancing the processing power and battery life of cell phones. The conference provides a way for the three institutions to showcase early-stage opportunities from their academics, the article reported.

2007 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award