Kenneth S. Alexander, Ph.D.  Research interests: (1) Probability models from mathematical physics, including percolation, first-passage percolation and Ising models; Gibbs distributions. (2) Systems featuring subadditivity, including longest common subsequences and randomized versions of optimization problems—travelling salesman problem, minimal spanning trees, etc. (3) Empirical processes and probability in Banach spaces.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel. 213-740-3797, Email: alexandr@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

Richard Arratia, Ph.D.  Research interests: Probability, combinatorics.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-3774, Email:rarratia@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1979

Peter Baxendale, Ph.D.  Research interests: Markov processes, diffusion processes, stochastic differential equations, stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms, stability, statistical equilibrium and bifurcation theory for stochastic differential equations.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-3789, Email:baxendal@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Warwick University, 1974

Edward K. Blum, Ph.D.  Research interests: Mathematical neuroscience and numerical analysis.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2391, Email:blum@pollux.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University, 1958

Paul Cohen, Ph.D.  Research interests: Artificial intelligence; Cognitive science; Learning, Development and data mining; Statistical methods; Sequences and series.

Regular Member
Director, Center for Research on Unexpected Events, Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
ISI Marina Del Ray, Mail Code: 1454, Tel: 310-448-9342, Email:cohen@isi.edu

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Psychology, Stanford University, 1983

Julian Andrzej Domaradzki, Ph. D.  Research interests: Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques to study of turbulent flows.

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Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Universify of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering 430, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: 213-740-7774, E-mail:jad@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, 1978

Miguel Dumett, Ph. D.  Research interests: Inverse problems, Optimization methods and Kalman filtering techniques.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
Universify of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-8803, E-mail:dumett@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Utah, 2001

Larry Goldstein, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Sampling schemes in epidemiology, mathematical molecular biology, distributional   approximation and Stein's method, optimal stopping, recursive statistical methods.

Regular Member
Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2405, Email:larry@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984

Edmond Jonckheere, Ph.D.  Research interests: H design; nonlinear H design using describing functions; robustness analysis; fast simplicial algorithms for computing structured stability margins; topology of stability boundary; structural stability

Regular Member
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering/Systems
University of Southern California
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
Tel: 213-740-4457, Email:jonckhee@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1978

Rajiv Kalia, Ph.D.

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Professor, Department of Physics
University of Southern California
920 W. Bloom Walk, SSC 223, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484
Tel: 213-821-2658, Email:rkalia@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University,1976

Igor Kukavica, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Partial differential equations

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-378105, Email:kukavica@usc.edu

Chung-Chieh (Jay) Kuo, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Multimedia data compression and communication, multimedia database management, wavelets and multiresolution signal processing technology.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering-Systems and Signal and Image Processing Institute
University of Southern California
3740 McClintock Ave, Room 400, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564
Tel: 213-740-4658, Email: cckuo@sipi.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., MIT, 1987

Sergey Lototsky, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Stochastic partial differential equations and applications; Non linear filtering.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2389, Email: lototsky@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1996

Gerard G. Medioni, Ph.D.  Research interests:Image Understanding; Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

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Professor, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
941 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
Tel: 213-740-4498, Email: medioni@iris.usc.edu

Education:
Ph.D. Computer Science, 1983 University of Southern California,

Remigijus Mikulevicius, Ph.D., D.Sc.  Research interests: Stochastic differential equations, martingale problems.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Agenels, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2441, Email: mikulvcs@math.usc.edu

Clayton Morrison, Ph.D.  Research interests: Machine learning; Computational cognitive development; Knowledge representation; Data mining; Large scale multi$

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Research on Unexpected Events, Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, Tel: 310-448-8430, Email: clayton@isi.edu

Education: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Binghamton University, 1998

Aiichiro Nakano, Ph.D.  Research interests: Large Scale Computations; Parallel Computing; Computational Models and Material Sciences.

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Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
University of Southern California
941 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
Tel: 213-821-2657, Email:anakano@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Tokyo, Japan, 1989

Paul Kenneth Newton, Ph.D.  Research interests: Fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, partial differential equations, Hamiltonian systems.

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Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering
University of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering 430. Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: 213-740-7782, Email: newton5@cox.net

Education: B.S., Harvard University 1981; Ph.D., Brown University, 1985

Student Member
Grad Student, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-821-1475, Email: apapanic@usc.edu

Leonid Piterbarg, Ph.D.  Research interests: Random fields, random media, turbulent diffusion, 2D hydrodynamics, statistical inference in SPDE's, methods of data processing, stochastic flows, Lagrangian motion predictability, applications to oceanography.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2459, Email: piter@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1975
D.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, 1989, P.P.Shirshov
Institute for Oceanography, Russian Academy of Science

Aleksey Polunchenko Research Interests: Image Processing; High Performance Computing.

Student Member
Grad Student, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-821-1475, Email: polunche@usc.edu

Viktor K. Prasanna  Research Interests: Parallel Architectures and Algorithms, High Performance Computing, Mapping Algorithms onto VLSI Architectures, Parallel techniques for Signal and Image Processing and Computer Vision.

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Professor, Computer Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering Systems
Director, Computer Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering Systems
University of Southern California
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
Tel: 213-740-4483, email: prasanna@ganges.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Wlodek Proskurowski, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, scientific computing and mathematical software, large scale problems. applied mathematics.

Regular Member
Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-3776, Email: proskuro@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1976

Larry Redekopp, Ph.D.  Research interests: Theoretical fluid mechanics, nonlinear waves and stability, geophyiscal fluid dynamics.

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Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering 430, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: 213-740-5369, Email: redekopp@spock.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, 1969

Irving Reed, Ph.D.  Research interests: Digital signal processing, error-correcting codes, radar detection theory, number-theoretic transforms, adaptive array processing, x-ray tomography.

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Charles Lee Powell Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering/Systems
University of Southern California
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
Tel: 213-740-7335, Email: milly@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1949

Member: National Academy of Engineering

Gary Rosen, Ph.D.  Research interests: Identification and control of infinite dimensional or distributed parameter systems (i.e. partial and functional differential equations) with particular emphasis on approximation and adaptive techniques. Applications to vibration suppression, control of flexible spacecraft and thermo-mechanical systems.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2446, Email:rosen@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Brown University 1980

Robert Sacker, Ph.D.  Research interests: Ordinary differential equations, infinite dimensional dynamical systems, deterministic modeling.

Regular Member
Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-3793, Email: rsacker@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., New York University- Courant Institute, 1964

Michael Safonov, Ph.D.  Research interests: Control and decision theory.

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Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering/Systems
University of Southern California
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
Tel. 213-740-4455, Email: safonov@bode.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977

Alan Schumitzky, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Estimation and control theory: applied pharmocokinetics; complex analysis

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-2392, Email: schum@math.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1965.

Firdaus Udwadia, Ph.D.  Research interests: Analytical mechanics, dynamical systems, structural dynamics, identification and control of structural and mechanical systems.

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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering 430, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: 213-740-0495, Email: fudwadia@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Priya Vashishta, Ph.D.  Research interests: Bio-inspired paradigms for information processing; Information processing & nanostructure-inspired applications in life sciences & bio-technologies.

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Professor, Department of Material Sciences
University of Southern California
3651 Watt Way, VHE 602, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0241
Tel: 213-821-2663, Email:priyav@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1967

Michael Waterman, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Mathematical, statistical and computational approaches to macromolecular sequence data; sequence comparison algorithms, Poisson approximations for estimating sequence alignment significance, RNA secondary structure, physical mapping.

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Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Molecular Biology
University of Southern California
1050 Childs Way, Room 201, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2910
Tel: 213-740-2408, Email: msw@hto.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1969

Member: National Academy of Sciences

Lloyd Welch, Ph.D.  Research interests: Error correcting codes, especially decoding methods; digital sequence design; combinatorics (constructions).

Regular Member
Professor (Emeritus), Department of Electrical Engineering/Systems
University of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE)
3650 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Tel: N/A, Email: welch@usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1958

Bingen Yang, Ph.D.  Research Interests: dynamics,vibrations, structures, controls, and applied mechanics.

Regular Member
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
Olin Hall of Engineering 430, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: 213-740-7082, Email: bingen@altinak.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989

Fernando Zapatero, Ph.D.  Research interests: financial mathematics; computational methods in finance; financial modeling; microeconomic foundations of financial models.

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Professor, Department of Finance and Business Economics
University of Southern California
701 Exposition Blvd, Ste. 701, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1427
Tel: 213-740-6538, Email: fzapatero@marshall.usc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University, 1991

Mohammed Ziane, Ph.D.  Research interests: Partial differential equations, Geophysical dynamics, Navier-Stokes equations.

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Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 108, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: 213-740-3766, Email: ziane@math.usc.edu