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
Yixue Zhao
http://scf.usc.edu/~yixuezha/
Reducing User-Perceived Latency in Mobile Apps via Data Prefetching
Joined the Ph.D. program in Fall 2014
Passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2019
Suhrid Karthik
http://suhrid.net
Joined the Ph.D. program in Fall 2017
Nikola Lukić
http://softarch.usc.edu/~nikola/
Joined the Ph.D. program in Fall 2018
Marcelo Schmitt Laser
Joined the Ph.D. program in Fall 2018
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: University of California, Irvine
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
Dissertation: Identifying Interaction Anomalies in Event-Based Systems
Graduated: June 2016
Destination: Cloudera
Youn Kyu Lee
Dissertation: Reducing Inter-Component Vulnerabilities in Event-Based Systems
Destination: Samsung
Arman Shahbazian
Dissertation: Techniques for Methodically Exploring Software Development Alternatives
Destination: Google
Duc M. Le
Dissertation: Codification and Analysis of Architectural Decay
Destination: Bloomberg