2021

Congratulations to Kendra Walther for being granted the 2021 ITP Director's Award for Faculty. This award recognizes the faculty member who most embodies the ITP mission of “providing technology education for all” through excellent teaching and service to ITP and all its constituents.

Senior Lecturer of Information Technology

2021

The ITP Director's Award for Staff was awarded to one of ITP's Academic Advisors, Annie Le. Annie has provided critical and extremely successful support during the COVID pandemic, and has streamlined many processes that ultimately contributed to ITPs recent growth.

Assistant Director, Advising & Recruitment

2021

The ITP Associate Director's Award for Service recognizes the faculty member who exhibits excellence in service to ITP through initiative, timeliness, and thoroughness. This year the award has been given to Mike Lee, who has enthusiastically volunteered to serve on six committees and chaired three of them this year.

Senior Lecturer of Information Technology 
and Industrial and Systems Engineering

2021

The ITP Associate Director's Award for Teaching recognizes the full-time faculty member who exhibits excellence in ITP teaching through innovation, energy, and effectiveness. Rob Parke has been praised for his incredible teaching ability, and his ability to describe complex and complicated concepts to students in a simple and intuitive way.

Senior Lecturer of Information Technology
and Art and Design

2021

The ITP Associate Director's Award for Part-Time Teaching recognizes the part-time faculty member who exhibits excellence in ITP teaching through innovation, energy, and effectiveness. This year it has been given to Kimberly Rubal, who has received a tremendous amount of positive feedback from students and fellow faculty members alike.

Part-Time Lecturer of Information Technology

2021

Congratulations to Professor Joseph Greenfield for receiving the Dean's Award for Innovation and Teaching Excellence at the 2021 USC Viterbi Faculty and Staff Award ceremony. His creativity and dedication to ITP and the Cyber Security and Forensics field makes him a perfect fit for this award. 

Associate Professor of Information Technology Practice

2020

The Hanna Reisler Mentorship Award recognizes individuals at USC who have advanced the careers of women in science and engineering through generous and committed professional mentorship. Trina Gregory was given this award for being a prime example of mentorship at USC, and for her dedicated mentoring of faculty and students, especially women.

Associate Professor of Information Technology Practice

2020

Professor Kendra Walther was presented with the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching and Education for her implementation of active learning strategies in the classroom and her facilitation of workshops to train other faculty in these techniques.

Senior Lecturer of Information Technology

2020

Professor Nitin Kale was awarded with the John O'Brien Faculty Award for Service for his outstanding work in expanding the ITP program, including his creation of ITP's Applied Analytics minor, which became an impressively popular minor at USC, being the top enrolled minor in 2020. 

Professor of Information Technology Practice
and Industrial and Systems Engineering Practice

2019

The Early Career Award was awarded to Tim Gotimer, Associate Director of Advising and Recruitment. This award is given to a Viterbi staff member who has been with USC Viterbi between one and three years, and whose performance is well above what is typically expected from someone new to their position.

Associate Director, Advising and Recruitment

2016

Professor Sanjay Madhav was awarded with the Viterbi Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching and Education for his leadership, talent, and impact in Viterbi School of Engineering.

Associate Professor of Information Technology Practice