For information on the research program relating to innovation and public and private funding, please see the Management of INnovation, Entrepreneurial Research, and Venture Analysis (MINERVA) web site.
Welcome to the home of technology innovation and entrepreneurship at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering!
USC Viterbi has been the proud base of innovation for many years. Today we are linked closely with Silicon Beach but our innovations have transformed multiple industries. Our many centers of excellence that generate and nurture translation and transformation include:
Viterbi-led:
- Airbus Institute for Engineering Research (AIER)
- Arid Climate and Water Research Center (AWARE)
- Biomedical Simulations Resource (BMSR)
- Center for Advanced Software Technologies (CAST)
- Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT)
- Center for Computer Systems Security (CCSS)
- Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT)
- Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
- Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE)
- Center for Vision Science and Technology (CVST)
- Communication Sciences Institute (CSI)
- Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
- Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)
- Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
- Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC)
- M. C. Gill Composites Center
- Materials Genome Innovation for Computational Software (MAGICS)
- Ming Hsieh Institute (MHI)
- Northrop Grumman Institute of Optical Nanomaterials and Nanophotonics (NG-ION2)
- Postel Center at USC/ISI
- Pratt & Whitney Institute for Collaborative Engineering (PWICE)
- Reservoir Development and Monitoring Systems Center (RDMS)
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center (RASC)
- Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI)
- Space Engineering Research Center (SERC)
- USC Energy Institute (USCEI)
- USC-Chevron Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft)
- USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC)
USC Collaborations:
- Center for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis (CEMMA)
- Center for Peptide and Protein Engineering (CPPE)
- Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST)
- Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences
- Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making
- SleepHuB
Other Collaborations: