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Spring 2011 USC Viterbi //Engineer University of Southern California • Spring 2011 USC Viterbi //Engineer Mıng Hsıeh: A Clear Vısıon HTE@USC AND THE BIOMEDICAL FUTURE // THE NAE CHALLENGE OF SECURING CYBERSPACE NEXT-GENERATION SOUND RENDERING At the Viterbi School, our research sparks great things. YOUR support IGNITES THAT SPARK— ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR COMPany’S MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM. PHOTO ABOVE: Your gift helps fund our pioneering research to cut carbon emissions. Professor Martin Gundersen’s Develop green technologies. Spur biomedical advances. We change Nanosecond Pulsed Power the world in meaningful ways at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Group is experimenting with plasma ignition to develop Yet we can’t do it without you. Your gift allows us to perform this cutting- cleaner, more efficient diesel edge research, and it’s likely that your employer will match it. More than combustion engines. This is 1,000 companies sponsor a gift-matching program, so that your donation just one of many ground- to USC can be doubled or even tripled in size. All you have to do is ask breaking research projects your human resources office for a matching gift form. underway at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM: 213.821.2730 or [email protected] MAIL YOUR DONATION AND FORM TO: USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Office of Annual Giving and the Viterbi Society 3650 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089 IN USC Viterbi // Engineer T Spring 2011 HI S ISSU 4 18 26 28 FEATURES DT EPAR MENTS PHOTO ESSAY 20 < Students Run the Show @ 28 < MING HSIEH: 2 < Board of Councilors GamePipe Lab A CLEAR VISION 3 < From the Dean: Phil-Alma Mater Engineering a cure for E PEER REVIEW cancer and connecting PARTICLES a global Trojan family. 22 < THE SPEED OF LIGHT: 4 < 3 Korean Air Sponsored Alan Willner Research Centers 34 < HTE@USC: 24 < THE NEXT GENERATION OF 6 < Humayun, Requicha Elected REACHING TOWARD THE SOUND RENDERING: to National Academy of BIOMEDICAL FUTURE Chris Kyriakakis Engineering; Crossing the Border Energizing engineering and 26 < TACKLING THE 7 < Smart Cars for Megacity Drivers medical research collaborations. NAE CHALLENGE OF 8 < i-PodiaTM Adds Third SECURING CYBERSPACE: Partner Institution Terry Benzel 9 < A New Home for ICT; Ph.D. Student Wins One of the IEEE’s ALUMNI NEWS Highest Honors 38 < Widening the STEM Pipeline 10 < Astronautical Engineering at 40 < Blood Clots, Battlefield ounds…W USC; Asia Meetings and Wine 11 < Enemy Amongst Trojans 41 < Engineering Christina 12 < Smart Fence System 42 < Busting Science Myths; Recognizes Bad Neighbors Thinking Like the Bad Guys, 13 < New Viterbi School Faculty and Educating the Good Ones 14 < Out of Africa, 43 < In Memoriam Into Grammatical English < Shortipedia and Social 15 Q&A Networking Research; < Celebrating an 44 John Brooks Slaughter’s Environmentalist’s Legacy Mission of a Lifetime 16 < Faculty Accolades 17 < Mentoring is Irresistible ON CAMPUS 18 < Viterbi Nanosatellite Blasts Off 19 < Arcs Foundation Supports Outstanding Viterbi Students; Taking Silver in South Korea BOARD OF COUNCILORS CHAIRMAN Jay L. Kear, BSME ’60 Private Investor Dwight J. Baum Private Investor Ken R. Klein, BS BMEE ’82 Wind River Systems, Inc., USC Trustee Dean K. Allen, BSME ’57 Retired, Parsons Corporation Marie L. Knowles, BSChE ’68, MSChE ’70, MBA ’74 Gordon M. Anderson, BSME ’54 Retired, ARCO Retired, Santa Fe International Corporation SPRING 2011 David A. Lane, BSEE ’81 Sonny Astani, MSISE ’78 Dean ONSET Ventures Astani Enterprises, Inc. Yannis C. Yortsos Alexis C. Livanos William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Northrop Grumman Corporation Chief Executive Officer, Retired, The Aerospace Corporation External Relations Alfred E. Mann Ronald R. Barnes, BS ACCT ’76 Christopher J. Stoy Alfred Mann Foundation, USC Life Trustee Norris Foundation Consulting Director Gordon S. Marshall, BS BUS ’46 Carol A. Bartz Bob Calverley Retired, Marshall Industries, USC Life Trustee Yahoo! Inc. Fariborz Maseeh Editor Edgar Brower, BSISE ’59 Picoco, LLC Lenora Chu Retired, Pacific Scientific Bryan B. Min, BSISE ’86 Contributing Writers Simon (Xiaofan) Cao, MA PHYS ’85, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. Bob Calverley, Lenora Chu, MSEE ’87, Ph.D. PHYS ’90 Michael Chung, Gloria Hayes, Venture Capitalist John Mork, BSPE ’70 Lisa Heckaman, Vanessa Hua, Energy Corporation of America, USC Trustee Yang Ho Cho, MBA ’79 Eric Mankin, Angus McColl, Korean Airlines, USC Trustee Donald L. Paul Leslie Ridgway USC Energy Institute David W. Chonette, MSME ’60, ENGME ’64 Art Direction Private Investor Steven Poizner and Graphic Design California Department of Insurance Leo Chu Lime Twig Group Hollywood Park Casino and Allen E. Puckett Photography / Graphics Crystal Park Casino Hotel Retired, Hughes Aircraft Company, Mark Berndt, Steve Cohn, USC Life Trustee Malcolm R. Currie Victor Leung, Brian Morri Retired, Hughes Aircraft Company, F. Edward Reynolds, Jr., BSCE ’81, USC Life Trustee MSCE ’84, MBS ’86 Cover Photography The Reynolds Group Mark Berndt Kenneth C. Dahlberg, MSEE ’69 Science Applications International George E. Scalise, BSEE ’88 Corporation TIAA-Cref Institute John Deininger John F. Shea, BS ENG ’49 J.D. Investments, Inc. J.F. Shea Co., Inc. Feng Deng, MS CENG ’93 Darlene Solomon Northern Light Venture Capital Agilent Technologies Peter H. Diamandis Patrick Soon-Shiong XPRIZE Foundation All About Advanced Health Albert Dorman, MSCE ’62 Richard D. Stephens, BA NSMA ’74 AECOM The Boeing Company Daniel J. Epstein, BSISE ’62 Mark A. Stevens, BSEE ’81, ConAm Management Corporation, BA ECON ’81, MS CENG ’84 USC Trustee Sequoia Capital, USC Trustee Alan J. Fohrer, BSCE ’73, MSCE ’76 Parviz Tayebati, Ph.D. PHYS ’89 Retired, Southern California Edison Camros Capital, LLC Volume 10, Issue 1 USC Viterbi Engineer is published Hester Gill Andrew J. Viterbi, Ph.D. EE ’62 twice a year for the alumni and friends of Viterbi Group, LLC, USC Trustee the Viterbi School of Engineering at the M.C. Gill, BSChE ’37 University of Southern California. Retired, M.C. Gill Corporation, William Wang, BSEE ’86 Letters to the editor and comments are Honorary USC Trustee Vizio welcome. Please send them to: Kenton Gregory, BSChE ’76, MD ’80 Warner M. Williams USC Viterbi Engineer Providence St. Vincent Medical Center Chevron North America Exploration Olin Hall 500 Oregon Laser Medical Center and Production Company Los Angeles, California 90089-1451 Ming Hsieh, BSEE ’83, MSEE ’84 Jeff J. Woodbury, BSPE ’83, MSPE ’90 Or email them to: 3M Cogent, Inc., USC Trustee ExxonMobil Development Company [email protected]. Jen-Hsun Huang NVIDIA Corporation viterbi.usc.edu Karl A. Jacob III, BSCS ’00 Coveroo 2 < Spring 2011 VITERBI.USC.EDU F RO Phil-Alma Mater => Philo-Paideia => Phil-Anthropy M In a recent edition of the from the past. It is also driven by an attraction Atlantic Monthly I read about of the “pull” from a present that has irresistibly the interesting new term grown from an inspiring vision. Trust and confidence philanthrocapitalism to capture in the leadership and goals of the institution and a the emerging trend of viewing vision that will benefit humanity in the larger sense and practicing philanthropy cements committing one’s legacy in this manner. In as an investment or venture the title, I coined for this the term Philo-Paideia, in its T capital. From the perspective modern connotation, which denotes the support and of an academic institution, affection for education in general: I guess this is my HE DEA and specifically that of an higher-education version of philanthrocapitalism! engineering school, this has In its literal sense, “philanthropy” means “love of interesting ramifications. humanity.” Whether inspired by loyalty or vision, the sup- Philanthropic support port of the educational mission advances and collectively of the academic and research benefits humanity at large. And in our current Knowledge mission of universities has Era, educational institutions, and particularly engineer- been a strong American ing schools, on behalf of one I can speak, are the catalysts tradition, since the early existence of the university as and incubators of these benefits. Indeed, engineering is an institution, several centuries ago. It recognizes the empowering society in ways unimaginable just a few years ethos that advancing society is a matter of individual ago. At the Viterbi School, we call this transformative, responsibility, rather than, or in addition to, the burden enabling, power “Engineering+.” It is a vision with the of a distant government agency. This distinctly American potential to inspire all the Greek and Latin word versions view, also related to that of the ancient Athenians, elevates I concocted above—including philanthrocapitalism. the concept of citizenship in a truly participatory and Which brings me to Ming Hsieh, a member of the enabling way. Viterbi School Board of Councilors, a USC Trustee and an engineering alumnus of our university. You will read about him at length in this issue. A native of China, Ming named the electrical engineering N Philos Greek. “love of” department where he studied for his undergraduate and master’s degrees before going on to achieve great entre- Alma Mater Latin. nourishing mother “ ” preneurial success. Now he has made a second gift that will marshal the disciplines of engineering and medicine Paideia Greek. child-rearing or system “ ” “ to combat cancer, a disease whose global mortality rate is of educational institution ” estimated to double by 2030. He has moved from the “push” of his Viterbi alumni Anthropy Greek. humanity, mankind “ ” ties to the “pull” of a vision that has been cultivated in the Viterbi school for several years now, that of Engineering+. His transformative gift will enable engineers and medical Traditionally, the support of the alma mater has scientists to collaborate on a mission that will benefit captured the lion’s share of educational philanthropy. It humanity. In this process, Ming has followed the path is deeply rooted and remarkable.
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