Shrikanth Narayanan

Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is University Professor and Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), with appointments spanning Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, and Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. He serves as Research Director of the Information Sciences Institute and Director of the Ming Hsieh Institute.

• PhD in Electrical Engineering (UCLA, 1995)
• Engineer and MS in Electrical Engineering (UCLA, 1992 and 1990)
• BE in Electrical Engineering (Anna University, India, 1988)

His interdisciplinary research focuses on human-centered signal processing and machine intelligence, addressing societal challenges in health, education, defense, and media arts. Key areas include:

• Behavioral signal processing
• Affective computing
• Multimodal signal processing
• Computational speech science
• Biomedical applications

Scientific Awards:

• IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award (2025)
• Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2024)
• ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement (2023)
• Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award (2023)
• ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award (2020)
• USC Distinguished Faculty Service Award

With over 1,000 publications and 19 patents, his work has been commercialized through startups like Behavioral Signals Technologies and Lyssn. He leads transformative university initiatives and has served in editorial roles for top journals including Computer Speech and Language and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.