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Faculty Accolades ViterbI faculty earn recognition, honors and awards
Stan Settles
Terence Langdon
Alice Parker
Dan Dapkus
David Kempe
A recent parade of honors awarded to Viterbi faculty was led by Stan Settles, the IBM Engineering Management Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of the school’s Systems Architecting and Engineering Program. Settles received the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ highest honor, the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award. It recognizes “those who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the welfare of mankind in the field of industrial engineering. The contributions are of the highest caliber and nationally or internationally recognized.” Alice Parker, a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, is the 2009 recipient of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. The award recognizes outstanding women engineering educators who have an exceptional record in teaching, research and service.
Solomon Golomb
Sandeep Gupta
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Maja Mataric´
Alan Willner
Sven Koenig
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Terence Langdon, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, has added another honor to his long list of distinguished international awards. He received the Honorary Medal “De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis” from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The medal, awarded for “exceptionally meritorious contributions in the area of science and the promotion of humanitarian ideas,” is the highest award the Academy bestows. The 2009 USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship went to Dan Dapkus of the Ming Hsieh Department. Maja Mataric´, the Viterbi School’s Senior Associate Dean for Research, along with her computer science colleagues David Kempe and Sven Koenig, received a 2008-2009 USC Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring. She mentored students
James Moore II
Najmedin Meshkati
working on robotics. Kempe and Koenig are recipients of awards for undergraduate mentoring for their coaching of USC teams that successfully competed in computer programming contests. Kempe, who holds the Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair, also was one of three USC faculty members to win one of the most competitive and highly prized awards in science, the Sloan Fellowship. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh of the Department of Computer Science was a recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2008 Software Systems Award. Ghandeharizadeh received the honor for his work on the Gamma Parallel Database System, the first system of its kind able to run the same query, with the same performance, on larger data sets by simply adding hardware nodes. In a rare sweep for a single school, the USC Academic Senate chose Solomon Golomb, Sandeep Gupta and Maja Mataric´ as recipients of this year’s Distinguished Faculty Service Awards. Alan Willner of the Hsieh Department is the winner of the 2009 Leadership Award-New Focus/ Bookham Prize from the Optical Society of America. He is also one of 59 academics to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Award.
Roger Ghanem
Milind Tambe
Fernando Ordoñez