Affiliated Faculty
Courtesy Appointments
Edward D. Crandall, Ph.D., M.D. (Kenneth T. Norris Chair in Medicine; Hastings Foundation Professorship in Medicine; Chair, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
Epithelial cell development and differentiation, regulation of pulmonary epithelial cell differentiation, acute and chronic lung injury and the factors that influence recovery, transport properties of pulmonary alveolar epithelium, cell pathophysiology of alveolar epithelium
Stacey D. Finley, Ph.D. (Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair)
Applying computational modeling to study angiogenesis, metabolism, and immunotherapy
Martin A. Gunderson, Ph.D. (Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy)
Applied plasma science with applications to combustion, pollution control, and pulsed power; quantum electronics, semiconductor devices and physics, and biophysics
Terence G. Langdon, Ph.D. (Emeritus Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Earth Sciences)
Mechanical properties of metals and ceramics, creep, superplasticity, processing and properties of ultrafine-grained materials, severe plastic deformation
Grace Lu, Ph.D. (Professor of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
Synthesis methods, quasi-one dimensional methods, electronics and energy applications
Ray Stevens, Ph.D. (USC Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Director of The Bridge Institute)
Armand R. Tanguay Jr. Ph.D. (Professor of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering and Physics)
Optical materials, thin films, optical and photonic devices, smart cameras, hybrid electronic/photonic multilayer retinas and neural networks, VLSI-neural interfaces
Mark E. Thompson, Ph.D. (Ray. R. Irani Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation Chair in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry)
Molecular polymeric materials, inorganic/biological interface,nanoscience, electroluminescence in organic materials, photochemical (energy conversion)
Arieh Warshel, Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Fellow of the National Academy of Science-Theoretical Chemistry and Biophysics)
Simulations of enzyme catalysis and protein action, simulation of chemical reactions in solution, electrostatic energies in macromolecules, protein folding
Peter Will, Ph.D. (Research Professor, Astronautical Engineering; Fellow, Information Sciences Institute; Research Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Research Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Robotics, MEMS, design and manufacturing
Dongxiao Zhang, Ph.D. ( Professor of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Stochastic uncertainty quantification for hydrology and petroleum reservoir simulations, multiscale modeling and simulation of flow in porous media, geological sequestration of carbon dioxide
Chongwu Zhou, Ph.D. (Professor of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
Nanoelectronics and nanotechnology, molecular electronics, mesoscopic physics, MEMs and bioMEMs
Adjunct Faculty
Virgil Adumitroaie, Ph.D. (Adjunct Lecturer)
Hossein Alimi, Ph.D. (Adjunct Lecturer, Petroleum Engineering)
Stephen Cheung, Ph.D. (Adjunct Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering)
Reservoir engineering, petroleum engineering, well simulation, reservoir simulation; well completion, stimulation and damage control