Faculty Members
Nenad Medvidović
Professor and Associate Chair, Computer Science Department
Director Emeritus, Center for Systems and Software Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
Chris Mattmann
http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
Chief Architect, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
George Edwards, Ph.D.
http://quandarypeak.com/software-experts/george-edwards/
Founder, Quandary Peak Research
Instructor and Researcher, Computer Science Department
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
Current Ph.D. Students
Youn Kyu Lee
http://softarch.usc.edu/~youn/
Reducing Inter-Component Vulnerabilities in Event-Based Systems
Joined in Fall 2012
Passed Qualifying Exam
Daniel Link
Arman Shahbazian
Techniques for Methodically Exploring Software Development Alternatives
Joined the PhD program in Fall 2013
Passed Qualifying Exam May 2017
Duc M. Le
Codification and Analysis of Architectural Decay
Joined the PhD program in Fall 2013
Passed Qualifying Exam May 2017
Yixue Zhao
http://softarch.usc.edu/~yixue/
Client-Centric Approaches for Latency Minimization in Mobile Applications
Joined the PhD program in Fall 2014
Passed Screening April 2016
Ph.D. Alumni
Marija Mikić-Rakić
Dissertation: Architectural Support for Disconnected Operation in Highly Distributed Environments
Graduated: July 2004
Destination: Google
Nikunj Mehta
Dissertation: Composing Software Architectural Styles from Architectural Primitives
Graduated: September 2004
Destination: C3
Roshanak Roshandel
Dissertation: Calculating Architectural Reliability via Modeling and Analysis
Graduated: October 2006
Destination: Seattle University
Sam Malek
Dissertation: A User-Centric Approach for Improving a Distributed Software System’s Deployment Architecture
Graduated: May 2007
Destination: George Mason University
Chris Mattmann
Dissertation: Software Connectors for Highly Distributed and Voluminous Data-Intensive Systems
Graduated: August 2007
Destination: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Yuriy Brun
Dissertation: Self-Assembly for Discreet, Fault-Tolerant, and Scalable Computation on Internet-Sized Distributed Networks
Graduated: March 2008
Destination: University of Massachusetts
Chiyoung Seo
Dissertation: Prediction of Energy Consumption Behavior in Component-Based Distributed Systems
Graduated: May 2008
Destination: CouchBase
George Edwards
Dissertation: Automated Synthesis of Domain-Specific Model Interpreters
Graduated: August 2010
Destination: Quandary Peak Research
David Woollard
Dissertation: Domain-Specific Software Architecture for Large-Scale Scientific Software
Graduated: January 2011
Destination: Vdio
Daniel Popescu
Dissertation: Dependence Analysis for Distributed Event-Based Systems
Graduated: November 2011
Destination: Google
Ivo Krka
Dissertation: Deriving Component-Level Behavior Models from Scenario-Based Requirements
Graduated: November 2013
Destination: Google
Joshua Garcia
Dissertation: Cataloging and Detecting Architectural Bad Smells
Graduated: May 2014
Destination: George Mason University
Hossein Farshad Tajalli
Dissertation: A Reference Architecture for Integrated Self-Adaptive Software Environments
Graduated: August 2014
Destination: Nvidia
Jae young Bang
Dissertation: Proactive Detection of Higher-Order Software Design Conflicts
Graduated: March 2015
Destination: Daum Kakao
Gholamreza Safi
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~gsafi/
Dissertation: Identifying Interaction Anomalies in Event-Based Systems
Graduated: June 2016
Destination: Cloudera