88 faculty and 14 courses in Computer Science at University of Southern California.
- Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow and Professor h-index 115
Notable: “Directed diffusion” (2000) · 5,403 citations
- Ramesh Govindan, Northrop Grumman Chair and Professor h-index 89
Notable: “Directed diffusion” (2000) · 5,403 citations
- C.-C. Jay Kuo, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 89
Notable: “Texture analysis and classification with tree-structured wavelet transform” (1993) · 1,336 citations
- Maja Mataric, Chan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor h-index 84
Notable: “A Formal Analysis and Taxonomy of Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems” (2004) · 1,670 citations
- Yue Zhao, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 83
Notable: “Metabolomic profiles delineate potential role for sarcosine in prostate cancer progression” (2009) · 2,249 citations
- Michael A. Arbib, University Professor Emeritus h-index 81
Notable: “Language within our grasp” (1998) · 2,824 citations
- Ning Wang, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 81
Notable: “Wireless sensors in agriculture and food industry—Recent development and future perspective” (2005) · 1,104 citations
- Gaurav Sukhatme, Donald M. Alstadt Chair in Advanced Computing h-index 80
Notable: “Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks” (2002) · 839 citations
- Wei-Min Shen, Associate Professor of Computer Science Practice h-index 75
Notable: “Agent-Based Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing: A State-of-the-Art Survey” (1999) · 807 citations
- Carl F Kesselman, William H. Keck Professor of Engineering h-index 72
Notable: “The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations” (2001) · 6,583 citations
- Michael S. Waterman, University Professor Emeritus h-index 72
Notable: “Identification of common molecular subsequences” (1981) · 10,083 citations
- Rajiv Kalia, Professor of Physics, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering h-index 70
Notable: “Interaction potential forSiO2: A molecular-dynamics study of structural correlations” (1990) · 632 citations
- Ewa Deelman, Research Professor and Principal Scientist at USC ISI h-index 68
Notable: “New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution” (2015) · 1,710 citations
- Yue Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 66
Notable: “NOx emission trends for China, 1995–2004: The view from the ground and the view from space” (2007) · 517 citations
- Cyrus Shahabi, Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professorship in Engineering h-index 65
Notable: “Diffusion Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network: Data-Driven Traffic\n Forecasting” (2017) · 1,810 citations
- Laurent Itti, Professor of Computer Science and Psychology h-index 63
Notable: “A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis” (1998) · 11,311 citations
- Craig A. Knoblock, Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences h-index 63
Notable: “A Survey of Digital Map Processing Techniques” (2014) · 690 citations
- Viktor K. Prasanna, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering h-index 62
Notable: “Fast Regular Expression Matching Using FPGAs” (2001) · 533 citations
- Jonathan Gratch, Research Professor of Computer Science and Psychology h-index 60
Notable: “It’s only a computer: Virtual humans increase willingness to disclose” (2014) · 898 citations
- Yolanda Gil, Research Professor and Principal Scientist at USC ISI h-index 57
Notable: “Pegasus: A Framework for Mapping Complex Scientific Workflows onto Distributed Systems” (2005) · 1,229 citations
- Ram Nevatia, Fletcher Jones Professor in Computer Science h-index 55
Notable: “TALL: Temporal Activity Localization via Language Query” (2017) · 835 citations
- Nenad Medvidovic, TRW Professorship in Engineering and Professor h-index 54
Notable: “A classification and comparison framework for software architecture description languages” (2000) · 1,983 citations
- Shanghua Teng, Seeley G. Mudd Professor of Engineering and University Professor h-index 53
Notable: “Smoothed analysis of algorithms” (2004) · 838 citations
- David Traum, Research Professor of Computer Science h-index 53
Notable: “SimSensei kiosk: a virtual human interviewer for healthcare decision support” (2014) · 485 citations
- Satyandra K. Gupta, Smith International Professorship in Mechanical Engineering and Professor of CS h-index 52
Notable: “Image-Based Surface Defect Detection Using Deep Learning: A Review” (2021) · 333 citations
- Chao Wang, Professor of Computer Science h-index 51
Notable: “A SAR Dataset of Ship Detection for Deep Learning under Complex Backgrounds” (2019) · 509 citations
- Paul Bogdan, Jack Munushian Early Career Chair and Associate Professor h-index 48
Notable: “A VLSI architecture of a K-best lattice decoding algorithm for MIMO channels” (2003) · 376 citations
- David Kempe, Professor of Computer Science h-index 43
Notable: “Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network” (2003) · 7,319 citations
- Leonard M Adleman, Henry Salvatori Chair in Computer Science and Distinguished Professor h-index 42
Notable: “A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems” (1983) · 13,142 citations
- Murali Annavaram, Lloyd F. Hunt Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computing Engineering h-index 41
Notable: “Die Stacking (3D) Microarchitecture” (2006) · 599 citations
- Jose-Luis Ambite, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 40
Notable: “Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits” (2019) · 1,135 citations
- Premkumar Natarajan, Research Professor of Computer Science with Distinction h-index 39
Notable: “Local Shannon entropy measure with statistical tests for image randomness” (2012) · 714 citations
- Todd Andrew Brun, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics h-index 38
Notable: “Correcting Quantum Errors with Entanglement” (2006) · 487 citations
- Swabha Swayamdipta, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 37
Notable: “SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter” (2019) · 855 citations
- Robin Jia, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 36
Notable: “xgboost: Extreme Gradient Boosting” (2014) · 2,077 citations
- William G.J. Halfond, Professor of Computer Science h-index 36
Notable: “A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures” (2006) · 596 citations
- Morteza Dehghani, Professor of Psychology and Computer Science h-index 35
Notable: “Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures.” (2023) · 242 citations
- Meisam Razaviyayn, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor h-index 32
Notable: “An Iteratively Weighted MMSE Approach to Distributed Sum-Utility Maximization for a MIMO Interfering Broadcast Channel” (2011) · 2,040 citations
- Ellis Horowitz, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 32
Notable: “Cost models for future software life cycle processes: COCOMO 2.0” (1995) · 652 citations
- Bistra Dilkina, Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair and Associate Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms over Graphs” (2017) · 977 citations
- Leana Golubchik, Stephen and Etta Varra Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Sensor faults” (2010) · 339 citations
- Salman Avestimehr, Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering h-index 32
Notable: “FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning” (2020) · 358 citations
- Harsha V. Madhyastha, Professor of Computer Science h-index 30
Notable: “iPlane: an information plane for distributed services” (2006) · 535 citations
- Joon-Ho Choi, Professor of Architecture and Computer Science h-index 30
Notable: “Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II” (2018) · 456 citations
- Clifford Neuman, Associate Professor of Computer Science Practice h-index 29
Notable: “Kerberos: an authentication service for computer networks” (1994) · 1,346 citations
- Jernej Barbic, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Real-Time subspace integration for St. Venant-Kirchhoff deformable models” (2005) · 415 citations
- Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 27
Notable: “The Gamma database machine project” (1990) · 667 citations
- Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Professor h-index 27
Notable: “A geometric analysis of subspace clustering with outliers” (2012) · 435 citations
- Shri Narayanan, Niki and Max Nikias Chair in Engineering and University Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Environmental Sound Recognition With Time–Frequency Audio Features” (2009) · 637 citations
- Rahul Jain, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering h-index 25
Notable: “Quantum Communication Using Coherent Rejection Sampling” (2017) · 87 citations
- Stephen Chih-Yang Lu, David Packard Chair in Manufacturing and Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Digital twin-driven product design framework” (2018) · 1,149 citations
- Angela Zhou, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Operations h-index 24
Notable: “Insulin Receptor-Mediated Stimulation Boosts T Cell Immunity during Inflammation and Infection” (2018) · 280 citations
- Jesse Thomason, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 23
Notable: “ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models” (2023) · 511 citations
- Andrew Gordon, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 23
Notable: “Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning” (2011) · 340 citations
- Haipeng Luo, IBM Early Career Chair and Associate Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Adaptive Resource Provisioning for the Cloud Using Online Bin Packing” (2013) · 232 citations
- Stefanos Nikolaidis, Fluor Early Career Chair and Associate Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Human-robot mutual adaptation in collaborative tasks: Models and experiments” (2017) · 192 citations
- Jieyu Zhao, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 22
Notable: “Men Also Like Shopping: Reducing Gender Bias Amplification using Corpus-level Constraints” (2017) · 780 citations
- Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 21
Notable: “SCAFFOLD: Stochastic Controlled Averaging for Federated Learning” (2019) · 735 citations
- Ming-Deh A. Huang, Professor of Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Quantum Computability” (1997) · 275 citations
- Heather Culbertson, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering h-index 20
Notable: “Haptics: The Present and Future of Artificial Touch Sensation” (2018) · 405 citations
- Willie Neiswanger, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Neural Architecture Search with Bayesian Optimisation and Optimal Transport” (2018) · 267 citations
- Daniel Seita, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Learning to Rearrange Deformable Cables, Fabrics, and Bags with Goal-Conditioned Transporter Networks” (2021) · 122 citations
- Weihang Wang, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 18
Notable: “Trojaning Attack on Neural Networks” (2018) · 1,207 citations
- Randall Hill, Research Professor of Computer Science h-index 18
Notable: “Toward virtual humans” (2006) · 200 citations
- Ruishan Liu, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 17
Notable: “Evaluating eligibility criteria of oncology trials using real-world data and AI” (2021) · 311 citations
- Mukund Raghothaman, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 16
Notable: “Syntax-guided synthesis” (2013) · 525 citations
- Erdem Biyik, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 16
Notable: “Reinforcement Learning based Control of Imitative Policies for Near-Accident Driving” (2020) · 62 citations
- Andy Nealen, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and Computer Science h-index 16
Notable: “Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML)” (2018) · 104 citations
- Aaron Daniel Cote, Associate Professor of Computer Science Practice h-index 14
Notable: “From form to function: Crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients” (2008) · 291 citations
- Ibrahim Sabek, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences h-index 12
Notable: “MonoPHY: Mono-stream-based device-free WLAN localization via physical layer information” (2013) · 108 citations
- Mengyuan Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 11
Notable: “A Systematic Look at Ciphertext Side Channels on AMD SEV-SNP” (2022) · 62 citations
- Jiapeng Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 10
Notable: “C60 to Modulate the Closed Pore Structures of Hard Carbon for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries” (2025) · 50 citations
- Souti Rini Chattopadhyay, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 9
Notable: “What's Wrong with Computational Notebooks? Pain Points, Needs, and Design Opportunities” (2020) · 154 citations
- Vatsal Sharan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 9
Notable: “Stratification of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: a crowdsourcing approach” (2019) · 56 citations
- Seo Jin Park, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 8
Notable: “The RAMCloud Storage System” (2015) · 270 citations
- Oded Stein, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 8
Notable: “Developability of triangle meshes” (2018) · 107 citations
- Corey E. Baker, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering h-index 7
Notable: “Scaling Blockchains to Support Electronic Health Records for Hospital Systems” (2019) · 31 citations
- Evi Micha, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 7
Notable: “A Contribution to the Critique of Liquid Democracy” (2019) · 32 citations
- Ruolin Li, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 2
Notable: “Submodularity of optimal sensor placement for traffic networks” (2023) · 17 citations
- Bill Cheng, Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
- Emilio Ferrara, Professor of Computer Science and Communication
- Jon May, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Jyo Deshmukh, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Scott John Easley, Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
- Sean Ren, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor
- Shaddin Dughmi, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Victor Adamchik, Professor of Computer Science Practice
- Yan Liu, Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in Computer Science
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.