At the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and biology, the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC Dornsife trains students to be both high-level biologists and high-level data scientists.

Students benefit from a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary curriculum with both undergraduate and graduate programs featuring a wide range of courses in the biological sciences alongside a robust selection of mathematics and computer sciences courses.

The department conducts research on topics as diverse as biophysics, neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and genomics.