Leadership Team

Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan
Director, Ming Hsieh Institute
Andrew Viterbi Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology; Ph.D., UCLA, 1995. Signals and systems modeling with an interdisciplinary emphasis on speech, audio, language, multimodal and biomedical signal and information processing and applications. EEB 430, (213) 740-6432
shri@sipi.usc.edu
http://sail.usc.edu/shri.php

Hossein Hashemi
Co-Director, Ming Hsieh Institute
Associate Professor; Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering; Ph.D., Caltech, 2003. High-speed and RF integrated circuits. PHE 616, (213) 740-3596 hosseinh@usc.edu
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~hosseinh/

Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Co-Director, Ming Hsieh Institute
Associate Professor, Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering; Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002. Design and analysis of next-generation wireless networks.
RTH 410, (213) 821-2528 bkrishna@usc.edu
http://ceng.usc.edu/~bkrishna/

Danielle Hamra
Ming Hsieh Institute Business Manager
PHE 606
(213) 740-2694
hamra@usc.edu

Advisory Council

Murali Annavaram
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001.
Computer architecture, 3D stacking, mobiquitous computing.
EEB 232, (213) 740-3299
annavara@usc.edu

Martin A. Gundersen
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy; Ph.D., USC, 1972.
Quantum electronics; pulsed power; applied plasma science.
SSC 421, (213) 740-4396
mag@usc.edu

Petros Ioannou
Professor; Ph.D., U of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 1982.
Control systems and applications, intelligent transportation systems.
EEB 200B, (213) 740-4452
ioannou@usc.edu

Richard M. Leahy
Professor; Ph.D., University of Newcastle, 1984.
Biomedical signal and image processing methods for anatomical and functional imaging with applications in neuroimaging, oncology, and gene expression.
EEB 400C, (213) 740-4659
leahy@sipi.usc.edu

Urbashi Mitra
Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994.
Multi-user spread-spectrum systems, space-time coding, communication theory, wireless resource allocation, ultra wideband communications, sensor networks.
EEB 540, (213) 740-4667
ubli@usc.edu

Michelle Povinelli
Assistant Professor, WiSE Jr. Gabilan Chair; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
Nanophotonics, photonic crystals, metamaterials, nano-optomechanics.
PHE 614, (213) 740-8682
povinell@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/nanophotonics

Viktor K. Prasanna
Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering, Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1983.
Parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems, configurable architectures, high performance computing.
EEB 200, (213) 740-4483
prasanna@usc.edu
http://pgroup.usc.edu