University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA·Private·Medical school
47 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.3B a year on research and awards 882 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 51,953: 23,071 undergraduates, 28,882 graduate
- Postdocs
- 431
- Faculty
- 2,442 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Neda Maghsoodi
Materials Science
Measure how focused ultrasound produces localized heating, phase transition, deformation, and recovery in programmed liquid crystal elastomers, recording temperature fields, deformation histories, and material properties across ultrasound conditions and material architectures.
Aaron Lauda
Mathematics & Statistics
Develop non-semisimple topological quantum field theories as a working framework for topological quantum computation, including density of braid group images in noncompact unitary groups and Hermitian forms on unrolled quantum group representation categories.
Richard M Leahy
Neuroscience
Develop Brainstorm tools for experiments that use naturalistic, non-repeating stimuli, including machine- and human-readable labels for uncontrolled events and behavior, so these can be linked to recorded brain activity.
Jeffrey Klausner
Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether chlamydia, gonorrhea or trichomoniasis detected in stored third-trimester vaginal specimens is linked to higher preterm birth risk, and whether risk differs by type of infection.
Ahmed Elbanna
Earth & Environmental Science
Rebuild the Unified Community Velocity Model as UCVM-Next, replacing legacy file formats with Zarr and TileDB array storage so that three-dimensional seismic velocity models carry versioning, provenance and validation information.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.