Triple A-Plus

USC faculty members honored for scientific excellence.

The council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected USC faculty members Carolyn C. Meltzer, Massoud Pedram, Remo Rohs and Richard M. Watanabe to the rank of AAAS fellow.

The honor is among the most prized in academia and recognizes excellence in research, technology, industry and government, teaching, and communicating and interpreting science to the public. They join more than 40 of their USC peers already inducted into the AAAS.

Carolyn C. Meltzer, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the May S. and John H. Hooval, M.D., Dean’s Chair in Medicine, is recognized for her work in the field of neuroradiology.

Massoud Pedram, the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is recognized for his work in low-power design of VLSI (very large-scale integration) circuits and energy-efficient computing.

Remo Rohs, professor of quantitative and computational biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy and computer science at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, is recognized for his work in structural biology and genomics to predict the 3D structure of DNA.

Richard M. Watanabe is a population and public health sciences professor at the Keck School of Medicine and is the associate dean for health and population science programs. He is recognized for his work in genetics, particularly in Type 2 diabetes-related traits.