New Honors for USC Professors

Georgia_Girl
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:26:30 +0000

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has faculty who have been honored recently.

Received National Science Foundation Career Awards:

Dr. Buroin Gerber
Dr. Malancha Gupta
Dr. Ben Reichardt

Dr.Michael Waterman has been elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is only one of two Americans elected who are not of Chinese descent. Earlier in the fall he received the China Friendship Award.

Dr. Mike Gruntman has been honored by election to the International Academy of Astronautics.

Dr. Nitin Kale received the SAP Visionary Member Award given by the SAP University Alliance.

Foreign Policy has chosen Dr. Ted Berger as a 2013 Global Thinker for his innovations in biomedical engineering. He also was honored with the EMBS Career Achievement Award.

Four Viterbi faculty were named Fellows of the IEEE:

Dr. Ramesh Govinden
Dr. John Heidemann
Dr. Stefan Schaal
Dr. Cyrus Shahabi

Popular Science Magazine names the “Brilliant Ten” each year. Dr. Andrea Armani was named one of the ten for 2013.