Space Sciences Center(SSC)

At the University of Southern California, research in the space sciences is carried out by the Space Sciences Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy. Work at SSC involves both laboratory and space based investigations of photoabsorption and emission processes in atomic and molecular gasses in the spectral region from the extreme ultraviolet through the…

USC Institute for Addiction Science

Recognizing the outstanding base of addiction experts at USC and that interdisciplinary collaboration among them had historically been underleveraged, IAS was launched in July 2018 under the leadership of Adam Leventhal (IAS Director, Preventive Medicine) and John Clapp (IAS Co-Director, Social Work) with 30 inaugural faculty members across 5 schools. Institute Startup was supported by…

USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center

A joint effort of Lockheed Martin Corporation and the University of Southern California, the Quantum Computing Center (QCC) is housed at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, one of the world’s leading computer science and engineering research entities. Faculty, researchers and students are performing basic and applied research into noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing devices, and are…

USC-Chevron Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies

CiSoft is a USC-Chevron Center of Excellence for Research and Academic Training on Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies. Established in December 2003, the Center includes participating research scientists from various departments in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California and from Chevron. Two important entities associated with the Viterbi School of Engineering, IMSC (Integrated Media Systems Center) and ISI (Information Sciences…

The Stevens-USC Systems Engineering Research Center

The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), is a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) of the Department of Defense, leveraging the research and expertise of faculty, researchers, and students from more than 20 collaborating universities throughout the United States. The SERC is unprecedented in the depth and breadth of its reach, leadership, and citizenship in Systems…

Signal and Information Processing Institute (SIPI)

The USC Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) was one of the first research organizations in the world dedicated to image processing. Image processing work began at USC in 1962 and the Institute itself was founded in 1971 by William K. Pratt and Harry C. Andrews with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…

NIH Pediatric Research Using Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems

The Pediatric Research using Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems (PRISMS) Program pursues dual goals: to develop a non-invasive health monitoring system for pediatric asthma research and to make the resulting environmental and health data available to epidemiologists.

NIH GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project Coordinating Center

The GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) provides data and tools that facilitate research on the GenitoUrinary (GU) tract for the scientific and medical community.

NIH Biomedical Simulations Resource

Established in 1985, the Biomedical Simulations Resource (BMSR) at the University of Southern California is dedicated to the advancement of the state-of-the-art in biomedical system modeling and simulation through Technological Research and Development (Core) projects, as well as the application and dissemination of this knowledge through Collaborative Research, Service, Training and Dissemination activities aimed at…

Gill Foundation Composites Center

Established in 1995 and endowed with a generous gift from M.C. Gill in 2002, the mission of the Center is to address problems associated with the manufacture and behavior of composites and composite structures. The scope includes the training of graduate and undergraduate students from chemical, mechanical and materials engineering through sponsored research projects. Personnel…