People
Leadership

Yang Chai
CO-DIRECTOR
Early Craniofacial Development and Malformations, Molecular Regulation of Cranial Neural Crest Cells

Abigail Horn
Co-director
Food Supply, Nutrition, Disease Modeling, Network Science, Computational Social Science
Researchers

Yigal Arens
Genetics of Mental Health, Databases

Terry Benzel
Analysis, Measurement, and Defense of Internet Network Systems

Elizabeth Boschee
Senior Supervising Computer Scientist, Principal Scientist, Director of ISI's Boston (MA) Office, Associate Director of the AI Division

Keith Burghardt
Nutrition, AI Fairness, Human-Computer Interaction

Emilio Ferrara
Public Health, Social Media, Wearable Sensors

Steven Fincke
Information Extraction, Medical Documentation, Speech Recognition

Marjorie Freedman
Speech Recognition, Optical Character Recognition, Anaphora Resolution, Classic Information Extraction Ontologies

Yolanda Gil
AI scientists, automated discovery, AI-mediated collaboration

Amir Kalev
Quantum Information Scientist, Lead Scientist

Mayank Kejriwal
Knowledge Graphs, Computational Social Science

Mahyar Khayatkhoei
Deep Generative Models, Data-driven Computational Models, Real-world Phenomena

Craig Knoblock
Knowledge Graphs

Kristina Lerman
Behavioral Health, Public Health Messaging, Misinformation, Mental Health, Wearable Sensors, Health Informatics

Jonathan May
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Principal Scientist

Jelena Mirkovic
Cybersecurity, Human Cognitive Abilities

Fred Morstatter
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Principal Scientist, Associate Director of the Data Science Program

Shri Narayanan
Bio-behvioral Signal and Image Processing, Machine Learning, Affective Computing, Speech and Language Processing, Behavioral and Mental Health, and Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Srivatsan Ravi
Secure Federated Learning, Privacy-preserving Computation

Mohammad Rostami
Medical Image Analysis, AI for healthcare

Adam Russell
Collective Intelligence, Anthropology

Robert Schuler
Senior Computer Scientist, Lead Scientist

Stephen Schwab
Forecasting and Attributing Malicious Attacks, Detecting Malicious Tampering in Embedded Firmware

Alexander Titus
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Biotechnology, Life Sciences

Ralph Weischedel
Human Language Technology, Natural Language Processing, Question Answering

Ke-Thia Yao
Supervising Computer Scientist, Lead Scientist

Yixue Zhao
Mobile Technology, Mental Health & Mindfulness, Digital Well-being, Affective Computing
Collaborators

Jon-Patrick Allem
Assistant Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Neil Bahroos
Associate Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Chief Research Informatics Officer of the Keck School of Medicine and Keck Medicine of USC

Linda Brzustowicz
Distinguished Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University

Rael Cahn
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Yang Chai
USC Professor and George & MaryLou Boone Chair in Craniofacial Molecular Biology; USC Professor, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine; Director, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology; Associate Dean of Research, Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC

Eric Chang
Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology

Melinda Chang
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

David Conti
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Associate Director for Data Science Integration

Kayla de la Haye
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Dominique Duncan
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Sandy Eckel
Associate Professor of Population and Public Healt at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Adam Frank
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Scott Fraser
Provost Professor and Director of Science Initiatives at USC

Frank D. Gilliland
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Rima Habre
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Eric Hsieh
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine; Vice Chair, Educational Affairs; Director, Residency Program

Cory Inman
Assistant Professor of Cognition & Neural Science at the University of Utah

Neda Jahanshad
Associate Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Heinz-Josef Lenz
Associate Director for Clinical Research and Co-Leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Pat Levitt
Professor of Pediatrics; W.M. Keck Chair in Neurogenetics; Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, and Director of The Saban Research Institute; Director of the Program in Developmental Neurogenetics at The Saban Research Institute

Lijun Ma
Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology and Chief of Medical Physics

Sheila Murphy
Professor at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC

Shawn Roll
Director of the PhD in Occupational Science Program and Associate Professor

Andrew Shaner
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine and Deputy Chief of Psychiatry for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Uttam Sinha
Professor of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery; Medical Director of Head and Neck Surgery; Watt Family Endowed Chair for Head and Neck Cancers

Paul M. Thompson
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, Psychiatry, and Engineering, and Associate Director, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute

Jay Arnold Tischfield
MacMillan Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University

Jennifer Unger
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Tom Valente
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC

Francisco Valero-Cuevas
USC Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy

John Wilson
Director, USC Spatial Sciences Institute; Director, Wilson Map Lab; Professor of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Population and Public Health Sciences, Sociology, and Spatial Sciences

Benjamin Xu
Assistant Professor Of Clinical Ophthalmology and Director of Inpatient Ophthalmology Service
Affiliates

Ruishan Liu
Machine Learning, Human Diseases, Health and Genomics

Yan Liu
Machine Learning with Applications to Health, Sustainability, and Social Media

Michael Pazzani
Explainable AI, Medical Image Classification, Machine Learning

Cyrus Shahabi
Databases, Spatial Databases, Mutlimedia Databases, Geospatial Information Systems, Data Mining

Greg Ver Steeg
Neuroimaging, gene expression analysis, latent factor discovery
PhD Students
