The Neurosciences Graduate Program at USC encompases a unique blend of
research and coursework in the Neural, Behavioral, and Informational
Sciences. This interdisciplinary program includes over 100 faculty members
doing research on the nervous system from almost every perspective.
It is centered in the new, 6 floor Hedco Neurosciences Building, and
currently has almost 50 students working toward a PhD in Neurosciences.
Faculty are associated with a number of Schools and Departments, including
Biology, Computer Science, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Neurology, Pharmacy, and Gerontology.
Computational studies in both brain theory and neural networks are
supervised by many faculty, including:
Michael Arbib (visuomotor coordination)
George Bekey (NNs for autonomous robots)
Ted Berger (learning mechanisms in hippocampus)
Irv Biederman (human visual processing)
Bing Sheu (VLSI implementation of NNs)
Ed Blum (NNs as dynamic systems)
Keith Jenkins and Armand Tanguay (optical implementation of NNs)
Mark Seidenberg (psycholinguistics)
Richard Thompson (learning mechanisms in cerebellum)
Christoph von der Malsburg and Michael Lyon (face recognition)
In addition, USC has a major Program Project directed by Michael Arbib and
funded by the Human Brain Project, a consortium of federal agencies. The
USC Brain Project (USCBP) is centered on a collaboration between
Neurobiology and Computer Science, and is developing and applying the
latest in informatics (databases, WWW, discovery tools, visualization, and
simulation) to biological mechanisms of learning and memory.
The Neurosciences Graduate Program web site is currently under revision.
To learn more about the USC Brain Project, please see
<http://www-hbp.usc.edu:8376/HBP/>;
to learn more about USC please see <http://www.usc.edu/>.
For application material please email William Trusten: trusten@bcf.usc.edu