Our Team

CCI consists of a stellar team of faculty and researchers. While most are from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the center also includes outstanding faculty representatives from eight other schools at USC. 

Director

Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Bhaskar Krishnamachari, the Director of CCI, has more than 15 years of research experience working on next-generation wireless networking technologies related to the Internet of Things. He is the recipient of many awards including best paper awards at ACM Mobicom and ACM/IEEE IPSN, the NSF CAREER Award, the ASEE Terman Award, the IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Electrical and Computer Engineer Award, the TR-35, and Popular Science’s Brilliant 10. He has co-authored more than 200 technical papers, with a total citation count of over 22000 (per Google Scholar), and a book titled Networking Wireless Sensors, published by Cambridge University Press.

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Andrea Belz

Andrea Belz

Donald Paul

Donald Paul

Neil Gilbert Siegel

Neil Gilbert Siegel

S.K. Gupta

S.K. Gupta

Viktor K. Prasanna

Viktor K. Prasanna

Alefiya Hussain

Alefiya Hussain

Ketan Savla

Ketan Savla

Mahta Moghaddam

Mahta Moghaddam

Cyrus Shahabi

Cyrus Shahabi

Viterbi FACULTY

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas

George Ban-Weiss

George Ban-Weiss

Hossein Hashemi

Hossein Hashemi

Clifford Neuman

Clifford Neuman

Murali Annavaram

Murali Annavaram

Burcin Becerik

Burcin Becerik

Colin Maclay

Colin Maclay

Antonio Ortega

Antonio Ortega

Salman Avestimehr

Salman Avestimehr

Dina El-Damak

Dina El-Damak

Azad Madni

Azad Madni

Fei Sha

Fei Sha

Nora Ayanian

Nora Ayanian

William Halfond

William Halfond

Donna Metz

Donna Metz

Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme

Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme

Usc Community faculty

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas

Price School of Policy

Scott Fisher

Scott Fisher

School of Cinematic Arts

Joon-Ho Choi

Joon-Ho Choi

Architecture

Ken Yates

Ken Yates

Rossier School of Education

Kyle Konis

Kyle Konis

Architecture

Colin Maclay

Colin Maclay

Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Staff

Brienne Moore

Brienne Moore

Coordinator