Dr. Craig Knoblock receives grant from SRI International

USC Professor Mendel and Ph.D Candidate Mohammad Korjani won the distinguished Best Paper Award at 2012 North American Fuzzy Information(NAFIPS) in August.

Dr.John Heidemann receives two grants.

Dr. Viktor Prasanna receives one grant.

Dr. Craig Knoblock receives two grants.

Dr. Viktor Prasanna receives three grants.

Chevron recently presented a $1 Million donation to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. This gift is added to the nearly $35 Million given to USC by Chevron's University Partnership Program over the past nine years.

Chevron provide a facebook page for our 2012 event, now we are on facebook!

Twenty-five high school students and five high school teachers from across the nation converged at the USC Viterbi School last week to attend the 2012 Frontiers of Energy Resources Summer Camp.

Dr. Iraj Ershaghi named Honorary Member SPIE/AIME

Congratulations to all our CiSoft graduates!

Several USC students will intern for Chevron Summer 2012.

Logica training program SESSION to help USC research team in developing data cleansing framework

Dr. Ulrich Neumann receives grant from DoD for Rapid Creation of Large Scale 3D Models.

The Director of USC's Petroleum Engineering Program talks to USC Viterbi alums at Saudi Aramco.

Cyrus Shahabi receives grant from US Department of Justice Janus-Multi Source Event Collection System for Effective Surveillance of Criminal Activity

Craig Knoblock receives grant from NSF: Building Linked Open Services from Online Sources

Yortsos and Paul were honored at SPE's annual technical conference in November

Antonio Ortega of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering received the best paper award from the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) held in Brussels, Belgium in September 2011.

Oct 29, 2011

High school juniors from all over the nation come to University Park Campus to explore the leading edges of research — and chart careers. Get more from the phone gallery http://cisoft.usc.edu/photos/slideshow_20110804317725.htm and summer camp video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzLbgXCfSg

Congratulations to Professor Cauligi Raghavendra, appointed as Vice Dean for Global Academic Initiatives. Congratulations to Professor Joe Qin, appointed as Vice Dean for Academic Initiatives (East Asia and China).

The 2011 CiSoft Academy was a two day workshop from July 25 – 26 that provided selected Chevron interns from universities all over the United States with the opportunity to gain invaluable insight on Smart Oilfield Technologies (SOFT) for the digital oilfield. For the second year, the CiSoft Academy was conducted virtually, allowing the participating interns to attend the workshop without having to leave their offices and regular internship responsibilities.

Since its beginning in 2008, the USC/Chevron Frontiers of Energy Resources summer camp, sponsored by Chevron, provides outstanding high school juniors and high school science and math teachers with the opportunity to take part in a preparatory and interactive training program focusing on various energy resources.

The Smart Engineering Apprentice (SEA) Project is an advanced artificial intelligence model that aims to predict the future failure of rod pump units. Innovative and modern, this novel technology provides a new approach to the maintenance of rod pumps through a system that increases efficiency while decreasing costs.

Check out the students from USC working for Chevron

CiSoft in the media

John Heidemann's USC team has turned its latest Internet census into a video and a special web browser. Bottom line: not enough addresses

The 2nd Annual National Summit for the NAE's 14 Grand Challenges was held at USC from October 6-8, 2010. The entire conference was webcast and is available in its entirety online.

Held between July 26 – July 27, 2010

The CiSoft’s internationally known expert on petroleum technology adds another distinction to a lengthy list

Check out the students from USC working for Chevron

Congratulations to all of our graduates! Best Wishes to you all!

BBC News asked readers to submit their ideas on how the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should have been stopped. A selection have been assessed by Prof Iraj Ershaghi.

California offshore fields are much shallower and lower pressure than the Gulf, and not drilling means more tanker spills.

As a result of partnership between USC and Chevron, three of CiSoft's members will be joining Chevron.

May 15, 2009 — The following CiSoft students graduated this year. Congratulations to all our graduates! Best Wishes to you all!

View the video coverage of the NBC of "socially assistive robotics"

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos' speech at the April 1 Viterbi Awards banquet at the California Club

(Dean Yannis C. Yortsos was unable to address the annual Viterbi School Faculty-Staff Luncheon because of a death in his family. Senior Associate Dean John O'Brien spoke in his place).

April 07, 2009 — Maja Mataric´, David Kempe and Sven Koenig's support for their students will be recognized April 21 when they will receive 2008-2009 USC Mellon Awards for Excellence in Mentoring.

March 31, 2009 — Prof. Antonio Ortega has agreed to serve as Associate Chair of Ming Hsieh EE-Systems beginning August 16, 2009.

February 05, 2009 — Craig Knoblock and Massoud Pedram are among 37 computer scientists recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for "their individual contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology."

A simulation of the behavior of millions of atoms in combustion brought graduate student Weiqiang Wang a 'best poster' prize at the Materials Research Society's Fall 2008 meeting in Boston.

Electrical engineering professor Viktor Prasanna will receive a 2009 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award from Pennsylvania State University on April 27, 2009, in a ceremony on the Penn State campus.

A USC delegation of engineering faculty and administrators traveled to Mexico City in early-December to initiate a collaborative agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Globalization drives the agenda of modern research universities. A number of goals are typically pursued, from enhancing prestige to maintaining a quality student pipeline to advancing a service mission and to connecting with overseas alumni and other constituencies. In parallel, there are a number of emerging opportunities, from increased global demand for higher education to increased global research and development to the desire for acquiring a foreign education, at home or abroad.

Los Angeles is one of three "megacities" in the United States and 15 worldwide that wlll continue to grow at unprecedented rates well into the 21st century. With a population soon to exceed 20 million people, the metropolitan region faces increasingly complex urban problems that impact its health, vitality, security and economic prosperity.

Chevron is seeking PhD candidates for both internship and full time employment positions. Sign up through the USC portal, connectSC. Deadline is Wednesday, January 7th.

Deepwater Facility Expected to Produce 70,000 Barrels of Oil Equivalent per Day

Guest Editorial by Mehrzad Mahdavi, SPE, Vice President Enterprise Security Solutions, Schlumberger

Offshore drilling has come full circle for alumnus Bob Bauer, who introduced the first floating oil rigs more than six decades ago.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, Provost C.L. Max Nikias and two distinguished executives with Viterbi School ties were honored in a ceremony welcoming them into the National Academy of Engineering

The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science welcomed its new and returning class of undergraduate and graduate students Sept. 5 during a special International Welcome Luncheon, which was webcast for Distance Education Network (DEN) students and the campus community.

Former Chevron executive Donald Paul will work with a new USC institute to further the university’s efforts in energy research.

The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering has announced that Chevron Corporation has donated $915,000 in scholarships and training to USC students as part of the energy company's global University Partnership Program (UPP). The commitment is a continuation of Chevron's long-standing relationship with USC and the Viterbi School.

A grant from Energy Corporation of America (ECA) will initiate a research effort at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering on better ways to extract natural gas from "tight" shales.

Bakersfield, California was the host of the third annual CiSoft Academy held July 23rd thru July 24th. Fifty Chevron interns from prime universities all over the United States were selectively invited to this workshop to learn about the collaboration between CiSoft members from USC and Chevron's i-field specialists and their united progressions through technology.

Canada's Discovery Channel website covers efforts by Maja Matarić of the Viterbi School's Computer Science Department to develop a robotic system to aid therapists treating children with ASD.

The first issue of the new electronic newsletter produced by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency features a Q&A with the director of the USC Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, both on his work creating supermaterials and on general WMD defense basic research priorities.

A recent report describes how CS Professor Cyrus Shahabi is successfully adapting his Progressive Data Analysis (ProDA) system, which applies signal processing ideas to data processing problems, to the software giant's computing platforms.

The computer scientist, who has a thing for science fiction, tells how a byproduct of his research is improving security at airports.

Iraj Ershaghi of the Mork Family Department discussed the potential for increasing production from the 9-billion-barrel oil field that lies under Southern California.

Congratulations to all of our graduates! Best Wishes to you all!

As a result of partnership between USC and Chevron, four of CiSoft's members will be joining Chevron.

John McDonald, the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Chevron Corporation, visited the University of Southern California (USC) on Friday, May 9th 2008.

University of Southern California hosted this year's 5th annual CiSoft/i-field Forum from March 24 to March 28.

The 5th annual CiSoft's Forum was the fifth brilliant success in a row, according to participants from the Viterbi School and from Chevron, the lead company in the industry group that funds the effort.

Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, is being honored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers with the 2008 Western North America Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers has named Viterbi graduate student Hamid Jahangiri as recipient of the Nico Van Wingen Fellowship.

Viktor Prasanna, professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, has earned two honors – an inaugural award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Best Paper award.

USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yannis C. Yortsos is among the 65 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the highest professional distinction that can be accorded to an engineer.

At a brief January 17 ceremony, Chevron Vice President Warner Williams presented a check for $200,000 to Dean Yannis C. Yortsos of the Viterbi School of Engineering, establishing the 2008 Chevron-USC Scholarship and Fellowship Partnership Program.

Viktor Prasanna and Aristides Requicha were part of an elite company of 38 leaders in computing technology recognized this year by being named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery.