People

Yolanda Gil
Director, Data Science Program
Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Programs

Research Professor
Computer Science

Emilio Ferrara
Associate Director
Applied Data Science and Undergraduate Programs

Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Jessica Dutton
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program

Emilio Ferrara
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science

John Heidelberg
Professor of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies

Brent Liu
Associate Professor of
Biomedical Engineering Practice

TJ McCarthy
Associate Professor (Teaching), Vice Chair, Public Policy

Jessica Neff
Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication

John Wilson
Professor of
Spatial Science and Sociology

Jeremy Abramson
Part Time Lecturer
Information Sciences Institute

Yigal Arens
Research Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering

Keith Burghardt
Part Time Lecturer
Information Sciences Institute

Yao-Yi Chiang
Research Associate Professor
Spatial Science

Anna Farzindar
Part Time Lecturer
Computer Science

Rafael Ferreira da Silva
Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Associate Professor
Computer Science

Joseph Greenfield
Associate Professor of Practice
Information Technology Program

Julie Higle
Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering

Ellis Horowitz
Professor and Associate Chair
Computer Science

Carl Kesselman
Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering

Deborah Khider
Part Time Lecturer
Information Sciences Institute

Seon Ho Kim
Part Time Lecturer
Integrated Media Systems Center

Aleksandra Korolova
Assisstant Professor
Computer Science

Jaime Levy
Part Time Lecturer
Computer Science

Yan Liu
Associate Professor
Computer Science

Gail Lucas
Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Nenad Medvidovic
Professor
Computer Science

Matthew Michelson
Part Time Lecturer
Computer Science

Clifford Neuman
Associate Professor of Practice
Computer Science

Jelena Mirkovic
Research Associate Professor
Computer Science

David Morgan
Part Time Lecturer
Computer Science

Ion Muslea
Part Time Lecturer
Computer Science

Luciano Nocera
Part Time Lecturer
Integrated Media Systems Center

Viktor Prasanna
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jay Pujara
Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Mohammad Reza Rajati
Lecturer
Computer Science

Paul Rosenbloom
Professor
Computer Science

Tatyana Ryutov
Senior Lecturer
Computer Science

Cyrus Shahabi
Professor and Chair
Computer Science

Gaurav Sukhatme
Professor
Computer Science

Pedro Alejandro Szekely
Research Associate Professor
Computer Science

Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli
Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science

John Wilson
Professor
Spatial Science and Sociology

Wensheng Wu
Associate Professor of Practice
Computer Science

Lizsl De Leon
Director
Student Affairs

Computer Science Department
Data Science Program

Steve Pham
Data Science Program Advisor

Graduate Students (M.S.)
Cyber Security Engineering

Art Perez
Data Science Program Advisor

Graduate Students (M.S.)
Interdisciplinary Programs

Siobhan Littlejohn
Data Science Program Advisor

Undergraduate Students (B.A.)
Data Science Major
Foundations of Data Science Minor

Academic Advisement for students in the M.S. Applied Data Science is conducted by the Computer Science Student Affairs Team. Current M.S. Applied Data Science Students can request assistance from the advisors by contacting dscimasters@vsoe.usc.edu.

Ellis Horowitz
Professor and Associate Chair
Computer Science

Erik Johnson
Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Programs

Craig Knoblock
Research Professor and Director, Information Sciences Institute

Clifford Neuman
Associate Professor of Practice
Computer Science

Cyrus Shahabi
Professor and Chair
Computer Science

John Wilson
Professor
Spatial Science and Sociology

Phil Bourne
Stephenson Dean, School of Data Science
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
(University of Virginia) 

Jennifer Chayes
Associate Provost, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Dean, School of Information (University of California Berkeley)

Antonio Torralba
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Inaugural Director, MIT Quest for Intelligence (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)