STAFF DIRECTORY
Student Affairs Staff
The Progressive Degree Program (PDP)
For current progressive degree students, please contact the Data Science Program for curriculum, academic preparation, and course plan questions.
For prospective progressive degree students, please contact datascience@usc.edu.
Graduate Advisors
Academic Advisement for students in MS Data Science (DSCI) programs is conducted by the Computer Science Student Affairs Team. Current DSCI students can request assistance from the advisors by contacting viterbiservicedesk.dscimasters@usc.edu.
For students in interdisciplinary programs (Communication Data Science (CMDS), Healthcare Data Science (HCDS), or Environmental Data Science (ENDS)) with questions regarding coursework in their joint department (Annenberg, Biomedical Engineering, and Environmental Science respectively), please contact the advisor in the joint department using this link.
Undergraduate Advisors
Current Dornsife freshman are advised by First-Year Advisors. Meet the team here.
Non-Dornsife Freshman interested in switching into or adding a major in Dornsife can email fya@dornsife.usc.edu or be referred to Dornsife First-Year Advising in Advise USC.
All other students can be referred to the Data Science program in Advise USC or contact Morgan Ponder (ponder@usc.edu).
Faculty and Program Leads
Applied Data Science
Faculty Director: Fred Morstatter (morstatt@usc.edu)
Academic Advisor: vsd-dsms@usc.edu
Communication Data Science
Faculty Director: Jessica Neff (jessicjg@usc.edu)
Annenberg Advisor: Adrienne Capirchio (azc@usc.edu)
Environmental Data Science
Faculty Director: Sean Fraga (sfraga@usc.edu)
Academic Advisor: vsd-dsms@usc.edu
Healthcare Data Science
Faculty Director: Brent Liu (brentliu@usc.edu)
Academic Advisor: vsd-dsms@usc.edu
Cybersecurity Engineering
Faculty Director: Clifford Neuman (bcn@isi.edu)
Academic Advisor: Steve Pham (stevepha@usc.edu)
Spatial Data Science
Program Director: John Wilson, PhD (jpwilson@usc.edu) & Susan Kamei, PhD (kamei@dornsife.usc.edu)
Academic Program Administrator: Dairon Caro (dcaro@usc.edu)
Public Policy Data Science
Program Director: Mark D. Phillips (mdphilli@usc.edu)
Academic Program Administrator: Suzanne Alexander (alexa1@usc.edu)
Data Science BA & Minor in Fundamentals of Data Science
Dr. Morgan Ponder
(ponder@usc.edu)
