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Two USC Viterbi professors elected to National Academy of Engineering
Shrikanth Narayanan and Amy Childress are honored with one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive.
USC Viterbi Professors Shrikanth Narayanan and Amy Childress have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the academy is one of the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
Shrikanth Narayanan: Defying conventional boundaries
A USC University Professor, Narayanan also holds faculty appointments in USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in psychology and linguistics, and the Keck School of Medicine of USC in pediatrics and otolaryngology — head and neck surgery, reflecting his interdisciplinary breadth. He also serves as USC’s inaugural vice president for presidential initiatives.
The academy recognized Narayanan for his “contributions to and leadership in human sensing and machine intelligence with impact on national security, health and media.” In a reflection of work that defies conventional boundaries, he was elected across two distinct fields: computer Science and engineering, and special fields and interdisciplinary engineering.
Learn more about Narayanan and his election to the academy.
Amy Childress: Transforming wastewater into clean water
Childress is Dean’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi School of Engineering‘s Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she also serves as founder and director of the ReWater Center and academic lead of the Water Reuse Consortium. The recognition represents a career spent advancing science with direct application to today’s most urgent real-world challenges.
She was recognized by the academy for transforming wastewater into clean water and bridging academia with the real world.
Learn more about Childress and her election to the academy.
