Advanced Computing Affinity Groups
The School of Advanced Computing's (SAC) newly formed "Advanced Computing Affinity Groups” leverage interdisciplinary strengths across USC.
How can advanced computing accelerate cures for complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer? What breakthroughs in quantum mechanics will allow us to solve complex problems in medicine, energy and materials science faster than ever before? When tackling society’s big challenges—from cybersecurity and climate change to drug discovery and mental health—the whole is undoubtedly greater than the sum of its parts.
That’s why the USC School of Advanced Computing (SAC), a unit of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is launching “Advanced Computing Affinity Groups” uniting faculty from wide-ranging disciplines across USC’s 23 schools, from the arts to social sciences to security to health and medicine.
To support the initiative, a recent $10 million gift from Andrew Viterbi, the pioneering electrical engineer and inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, will fund the hiring of new faculty at these intersections of advanced computing and other academic disciplines. The money will support the recruitment of new distinguished chairs, attracting top-tier faculty talent to catalyze the next big scientific discoveries.