Welcome to the Home page of the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Faculty Council (EFC).
This site is a resource for USC School of Engineering Faculty members. It includes material and links particularly relevant to faculty members interested in understanding the work, role, and responsibilities of the USC Engineering Faculty Council.
VSoE faculty members can access the public information on this site without any further login. Restricted information such as School Policies, Meeting Minutes, Memoranda, Resolutions, Past & Current Issues and Survey Results will require you to log in with your ITS username and password (shibboleth).
Communicate directly with the EFC
The EFC would like to hear from faculty about any issue relating to our professional life at USC. The link below will take you to a form where you may enter any comments or concerns. Submissions are forwarded to the EFC anonymously. The EFC will routinely gather the comments together, discuss them and determine what if any action should be taken. This is a way to communicate with your fellow faculty and with the Viterbi administration.
Click Here to Send a Message to the EFC
2025-2026 Meeting Schedule
The meetings of the EFC are open to all VSoE faculty members. The meetings are traditionally scheduled from 12:00-2:00pm, on the Viterbi campus, on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 – RTH 526
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 – RTH 526
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 – RTH 526
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – RTH 526
Spring 2026
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 – RTH 526
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 – RTH 526
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 – RTH 526
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 – RTH 526
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 – RTH 526
Roster of the 2025-2026 EFC
Officers
Chair: Lucio Soibelman (CEE)
Vice-Chair: Clifford Neuman (CS)
Secretary: Helen Choi (EIS)
Webmaster: Giacomo Nannicini (ISE)
Senators: Tony Levi (ECE), Kelly Sanders (CEE)
Alternate Senators: Brandon Franzke (ECE), Elizabeth Fife (EIS), Ivan Bermejo-Moreno (AME, Fall semester only)
Members
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering: Ivan Bermejo-Moreno (’26), Yong Chen (’27), Ramtin Sheikhhassani (’27)
Astronautical Engineering: Mike Gruntman (’27)
Biomedical Engineering: Bartlett Mel (’26), Jennifer Brooke Treweek (’26)
Chemical and Materials Science: Lessa Grunenfelder (’26), Steve Nutt (’27)
Civil and Environmental Engineering: Kelly Sanders (’27), Lucio Soibelman (’27), Qiming Wang (’25)
Computer Science: Erdem Biyik (’26), Laurent Itti for Shaddin Dughmi (’26), Ruishan Liu (’26), Jelena Mirkovic (’27), Cliff Neuman (’26), Evi Micha for Ulrich Neumann (’26)
Electrical Engineering – Electrophysics: Aluizio Prata (’26), Wei Wu (’26)
Electrical Engineering – Systems: Mohammed Beshir (’27), Brandon Franzke (’27), Tony Levi (’27)
Engineering in Society Program: Helen Choi (’26)
Industrial and Systems Engineering: Giacomo Nannicini (’26), Victoria Stodden (’26)
Information Technology Program: Gregg Ibbotson (’26)
Non-Voting Members
APT Chair: Pin Wang (MFD)
Senator: Elizabeth Fife (EIS)
Executive Vice Dean: Gaurav Sukhatme (CS)
Vice Dean for Academic Programs: Erik Johnson (CEE)
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs: Timothy Pinkston (ECE)
Vice Dean for Administration: Kim Bregenzer
EFC Academic Senate Alternate Representatives:
EFC Past Chair: Jim Moore (ISE)
Undergraduate Student Governance: Shakthi Srinivasan, Riyana Gobin