Informatics Program

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Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center 104
(213) 740-4494
Fax: (213) 740-7285
Email: informatics@usc.edu
Director: Cyrus Shahabi, PhD

Faculty

Professors: Barry Boehm, PhD (Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Ramesh Govindan, PhD (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering); Julia Higle, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Carl Kesselman, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science); Neno Medvidovic, PhD (Computer Science); Shri Narayanan, PhD (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology); Viktor Prasanna, PhD (Electrical Engineering); Suvrajeet Sen, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science); Cyrus Shahabi, PhD (Computer Science); Gaurav Sukhatme, PhD (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering); Milind Tambe, PhD (Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Priya Vashishta, PhD (Physics, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering)

Assistant Professor: Yan Liu, PhD (Computer Science)

Research Professors: Craig Knoblock, PhD (Computer Science); Yolanda Gil, PhD (Computer Science); William Swartout, PhD (Computer Science)

Research Associate Professor: Clifford Neuman, PhD (Computer Science)

Research Assistant Professor: Stefan Scherer, PhD (Computer Science)

Professor of the Practice: Roger Schell, PhD

Associate Professor of the Practice: Wensheng Wu, PhD

Senior Lecturers: Blaine Burnham, PhD; Mark Heckman, PhD

Programs

Master’s Degree

• •  Communication Informatics (MCI)
• •  Cyber Security Engineering (MS)
• •  Data Informatics (MS)
• •  Spatial Informatics (MS)

Courses

Informatics

• •  INF 510 Principles of Programming for Informatics
• •  INF 520 Foundations of Information Security
• •  INF 521 Application of Cryptography to Information Security Problems
• •  INF 522 Policy: The Foundation for Successful Information Assurance
• •  INF 523 Assurance in Cyberspace Applied to Information Security
• •  INF 524 Distributed Systems and Network Security
• •  INF 525 Trusted System Design, Analysis and Development
• •  INF 526 Secure Systems Administration
• •  INF 527 Secure Systems Engineering
• •  INF 528 Computer and Network Forensics
• •  INF 529 Security and Privacy in Informatics
• •  INF 549 Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
• •  INF 550 Overview of Data Informatics in Large Data Environments
• •  INF 551 Foundations of Data Management
• •  INF 552 Machine Learning for Data Informatics
• •  INF 553 Foundations and Applications of Data Mining
• •  INF 554 Information Visualization
• •  INF 555 User Interface Design, Implementation, and Testing
• •  INF 556 User Experience Design and Strategy
• •  INF 557 Foresight for Engineers
• •  INF 560 Data Informatics Professional Practicum
• •  INF 561 Engineering Data Analytics
• •  INF 562 Integration of Medical Imaging Systems
• •  INF 563 Medical Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Informatics Application
• •  INF 570 Foundations of Communication Informatics
• •  INF 590 Directed Research
• •  INF 599 Special Topics