Board of Directors

Michael Arbib, Ph.D. 

Research interests: Neural networks, brain theory, neuroinformatics, neural simulation, visuomotor coordination in animals and robots. 

Member, CAMS Board of Directors
University of Southern California
Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering
B3 Hedco Neurosciences
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
Tel. 213-740-9220, Email:arbib@pollux.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963


Roger G. Ghanem, Ph.D. 

Research Interests: Risk assessment and mitigation, computational mechanics and computational stochastic mechanics, dynamics and identification, inverse problems and optimization under uncertainty, multiscale modeling; applications of these to problems in science and engineering. 

Member, CAMS Board of Directors
Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering 430, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: 213-740-0603, Email:ghanem@usc.edu

Education:Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Rice University, 1989


Solomon Golomb, Ph.D. 

Research interests: Signal design for communications and radar, coding theory and cryptography, combinatorial analysis, number theory, mathematical game theory. 

Member, CAMS Board of Directors
Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Huges Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
Tel: 213-740-7333, Email:milly@mizar.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University 1957

Member: National Academy of Sciences


Roger W. Jelliffe, M.D. 

Research interests: Geriatric clinical pharmacology, optimal individualization of drug dosage, application of pharmacokinetics to digitalis therapy, optimal adaptive control of drug therapy, especially for therapy with digitalis glycosides, aminoglycoside antibiotics, lidocaine, theophylline, and drugs for cancer chemotherapy and AIDS. 

Member, CAMS Board of Directors
Professor, Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
2250 Alcazar St., CSC 134B, 9070, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Tel: 323-422-1300, Email:jelliffe@hsc.usc.edu

Education: M.D., Columbia University, 1954


Thomas Jordan, Ph.D. 

Research interests: Earthquakes; seismological study of earth structure; geodetic observations of plate motions and interplate deformation; continental formation and tectonic evolution; mantle dynamics; statistical descriptions of seafloor morphology. 

Member, CAMS Board of Directors
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
SCI 267 Mail Code: 0740, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740
Tel: 213-821-1237, Email: tjordan@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1972


Simon Tavare, Ph.D. 

Research Interests: Stochastic and statistical problems in genetics, molecular biology, and molecular evolution; probabilistic methods in combinatorics; statistical computing, including simulation of stochastic systems. 

Member, CAMS Board of Directors
Professor, Molecular and Computational Biology
University of Southern California
1050 Childs Way, Room 201, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2910
Tel: 213-740-8766, Email:stavare@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Sheffield, England, 1979