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May 12, 2026Wednesday, May 13th - 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. PST

NYTimes : USC Will Infuse A.I. Across University With $200 Million Donation

May 10, 2026A gift from Mark and Mary Stevens was highlighted, showing USC's commitment to infusing AI into areas like health care, cybersecurity and and the arts.

Bloomberg News : Early NVIDIA Investor Gifts $200M to USC

May 10, 2026President Kim was interviewed at the Milken Institute about Mark and Mary Stevens gift to USC, and the role of AI to address disease and improve human health.

CNN: Ride a jet ski through a re-creation of an Alaska mega-tsunami with the help of science

May 10, 2026Research by Patrick Lynett and colleagues was featured.

Spectrum News: How USC’s ISI helps internet users from around the world

May 10, 2026Terry Benzel and John Heidemann discuss B-Root, cybersecurity and other internet research at ISI.

NYTimes: A landslide in Alaska set off a tsunami. There may be more to come.

May 10, 2026Research by Patrick Lynett and colleagues to create a simulation of how a landslide generate a tsunami, was featured.

Mark and Mary Stevens give $200 million to power AI research across USC

May 05, 2026The university will name the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence to honor their investment in research and innovation at the intersections of AI and health sciences, business, security and the arts.

Nature (subscription): No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Apr 26, 2026Emilio Ferrara was interviewed about the site Agent4Science

Fortune (subscription): The world has entered a ‘global water bankruptcy

Apr 26, 2026Research by Essam Heggy was cited.

The Mirror: US cities mapped that will be underwater within a lifetime as sea levels rise

Apr 26, 2026Bistra Dilkina commented that cities far from rising seas will feel the effects of climate change, since they will have to take in millions of “climate refugees.”

IEEE Spectrum: The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics

Apr 26, 2026The publication wrote a profile of Professor Matarić's career including the use of robots for mental health support.

USC News: USC Viterbi Faculty Recognized at Academic Convocation

Apr 26, 2026Yannis Yortsos, Andreas Molisch, Azad Madni, Amy Childress, Satyandra K. Gupta , Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Massoud Pedram and Shang-Hua Teng were all celebrated

Daily Trojan: Outgoing Viterbi dean remembered as ‘caring,’ ‘humble,’ ‘discerning’

Apr 20, 2026USC's student newspaper featured Yannis C. Yortsos.

USC : Yannis C. Yortsos Named 2026 USC Presidential Medallion Honoree

Apr 19, 2026The Presidential Medallion is USC's highest honor and is awarded to individuals who have greatly contributed to USC in areas that promote the excellence of the institution.

Town and Country (Subscription Required): The 15 Colleges Best Preparing Students for the AI Economy

Apr 19, 2026USC Viterbi and SAC's programs were highlighted.

The Chosunilbo: USC president Beong-Soo Kim integrates disciplines for AI

Apr 19, 2026USC Viterbi's new AI degree and its joint degree with Marshall were featured.

Inc.: Researchers Created a Computer Chip That Can Survive the Heat of a Volcano

Apr 19, 2026Research by Joshua Yang was featured.

Forbes: Agents Are Ready. Companies Are Not

Apr 19, 2026Yolanda Gil is listed as a co-director of an annual report produced by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI.

CNN: Artemis II Astronauts Share Moon Flyby Experiences

Apr 17, 2026Garrett Reisman was interviewed about experience of astronauts prior to Artemis II press conference.

Wired Italia: A new chip survives temperatures higher than lava and could enable exploration of Venus.

Apr 15, 2026Research by Joshua Yang's The Ionic and Electronic Device and Materials (IEDM) Group was featured.

The Brighter Side of News: Groundbreaking memory chip withstands temperatures hotter than lava

Apr 12, 2026Research by Joshua Yang was featured.

Spectrum News: Inside the Navy’s role in bringing Artemis II astronauts home

Apr 12, 2026Garrett Reisman was interviewed about the reentry process after an astronaut crew returns to Earth.

Reforma: Robot dogs are being trained to go to space

Apr 12, 2026Post-Doctoral Scholar, Diego Caporale was interviewed by a leading publication in Mexico city about research he was involved in within Feifei Qian's lab

Science: AIs can ‘memorize’ data they shouldn’t. Can they be forced to forget?

Apr 12, 2026A tool created by a team led by Robin Jia was featured, noting that it will be debuted at ICLR 2026

NYTimes: It Will Take Months to Get Oil and Gas Flowing Out of the Persian Gulf

Apr 12, 2026Najm Meshkati was quoted about the structure and operations of oil and gas facilities in the region.

USC News: Paul Ronney Named AAAS Fellow

Apr 06, 2026Ronney was recognized for his contributions to combustion science.

CNN : Live Event/Special: Artemis Launch

Apr 05, 2026Garrett Reisman was part of a panel that was commenting live about the Artemis launch.

CBS LA: Team of USC students tracking progress of Artemis II moon mission

Apr 05, 2026Professor Barnhart and USC Viterbi Astro students Vishruti Gohel and Mike Gallagher were interviewed about USC's role as one of 34 sites around the world providing data to NASA.

NY Times: Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?

Apr 05, 2026ISI's Adam Russell was interviewed about a project he initiated while at DARPA, to use AI to determine which studies might replicate successfully.

Smithsonian Magazine: Sea Stars Can Lose an Arm and Soldier On. What If Robots Could Do the Same?

Apr 05, 2026Research by Eva Kanso's lab was featured.

Entrepreneur: A Former Apple Engineer Behind Face ID Is Now Building an 8-Figure AI Startup

Apr 05, 2026ECE alumnus Vince Gaydarzhiev was featured for his AI startup.

Financial Express: Meet Mike Markkula: Apple’s early marketing genius who shaped the company before Steve Jobs

Apr 05, 2026ECE alumnus Mike Markkula was featured a story looking at the history of Apple.

USC News: USC announces a joint biomedical engineering department, bridging medical and engineering schools to accelerate health care innovation

Mar 31, 2026Building on decades of collaboration between the USC Viterbi and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the joint department reimagines the expansion of biomedical engineering into medicine.

Yahoo/DPA: AI can sway your opinion, even when you know it’s biased, study shows

Mar 29, 2026A study led by USC Viterbi PhD student Zhivar Sourati in USC Dornsife Professor Morteza Dehghani's lab was cited.

ABC News: Aviation safety expert weighs in on deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport

Mar 29, 2026Aviation Safety and Security Program Director, Thomas Anthony, discusses the crash investigation process.

USC News: New USC Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing hosts inaugural AI summit

Mar 25, 2026Event features leading AI experts from academia and industry.

CNN (Subscription Required): Foreign Influence Campaigns on AI

Mar 15, 2026Research by Luca Luceri and colleagues was featured.

The Daily Mail: Can YOU spot the fake writing?

Mar 15, 2026Research by Computer Science PhD Student Zhivar Sourati warning that widespread use of large language models could “homogenize” how people write and reason, was highlighted.

LA Times: How our AI bots are ignoring their programming

Mar 07, 2026Cliff Neuman was interviewed about the role of AI in hacking.

Forbes: America’s Greatest Innovators

Mar 07, 2026Andrew Viterbi, Paul Mokapetris, Len Adleman, Marian Croak, and Palmer Lucky are some of the individuals featured on this list.

Fortune: We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say ‘likely’ but humans hear 65%

Mar 07, 2026Mayank Kejriwal explained how chatbots and humans interpret probabilistic language differently.

India Today: AI talent race: OpenAI signs Meta’s top researcher

Mar 07, 2026Alumnus Ruoming Pang was featured. The article highlighted his time at USC and expertise in AI, machine learning and research in speech recognition.

Aviation Week: Senate Confirms DeLeeuw For NTSB Seat

Mar 07, 2026Captain John DeLeeuw, an instructor in the Aviation Safety and Security program, was appointed to the NTSB, which the highest achievement for the field.

LA Times: One Factory, Any Product

Mar 07, 2026SK Gupta from the Center for Advanced Manufacturing was quoted about the savings afforded by 3D-printing for aerospace structures.

GOOD DESIGN: Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall was recognized with a 2025 GOOD DESIGN® award

Feb 18, 2026Building was recognized by Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in the “Environments” category

KTLA: AI fight scene video goes viral

Feb 18, 2026Swabha Swayamdipta, the Co-Director of the Center for AI in Society and a Prof of Computer Science was interviewed about the status of AI and the advances of a viral deepfake featuring Hollywood celebrities.

TechCrunch: New BS in AI is creating a new kind of educated professional

Feb 18, 2026Program complements disciplines that are the bedrock of engineering, while reinventing AI education

Earth: Sea stars inspire smarter movement in robots

Feb 08, 2026A study by Eva Kanso's lab was featured.

ABC: Lasers could allow the world to watch Artemis II astronauts travel to the moon

Feb 08, 2026Alan Willner was interviewed about NASA’s Artemis II test of the Orion Optical Communications System and using infrared lasers capable of transmitting more than 100 times the data of radio.

Press Release: SERC and Positron to Continue Collaboration on 3U CubeSat

Feb 02, 2026More than 60 students, faculty, and industry professionals over 2 years and multiple classes have contributed to the design, development, and testing of MAVERIC.

Motley Fool: This AI giant is a safer play

Feb 02, 2026Article compares different quantum computer companies, it mentions USC as parter with IBM quantum computing.

Decrypt Media: AI ‘Swarms’ Could Escalate Online Misinformation and Manipulation

Feb 02, 2026Xian “Sean” Ren was interviewed for this story about autonomous AI agents becoming harder to detect online.

USC News: Daniel J. Epstein has spent decades making a difference in research, teaching and athletics at USC

Jan 29, 2026A profile of USC Viterbi alumnus, USC Trustee and ISE Department namesake, Daniel J. Epstein, highlights his long-lasting impact.

YouTube: USC Viterbi and IIT Alumni SoCal Bridge Nations at AI IMPACT Pre-Summit

Jan 22, 2026Watch video: partnership with the Indian Consulate of Los Angeles drives a collaborative, human-centric future for artificial intelligence.

Association of Computing Machinery: Nenad Medvidovic named an ACM Fellow

Jan 22, 2026Medvidovic was recognized for "contributions to the foundations of software architectures and their application to software engineering."

CNN: SpaceX- Crew 11 Returning Early

Jan 15, 2026This is one of 3 interviews that Garrett Reisman did on CNN related to the astronauts returning to Earth earlier due to a health issue.

USC launches a new Center for Stem Cell Engineering on the Health Sciences Campus

Jan 15, 2026A collaboration between the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the center will use stem cell engineering to uncover disease mechanisms and advance new therapies

Associated Press: Federal aviation notice warned of slackline before deadly crash in Arizona

Jan 07, 2026Tom Anthony of Aviation Safety and Security was interviewed for a story about a deadly helicopter crash in Arizona.

New Scientist: A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantum computers’ success

Jan 06, 2026Daniel Lidar was quoted in a story about a new breakthrough in quantum computing made by Google researchers.

Wall Street Journal: Lessons of Switzerland’s Crans-Montana Fire

Jan 05, 2026Costas Synolakis contributed a piece on the recent tragedy in Switzerland and the risks presented by public spaces.

USC News: Inaugural USC India Awards honor visionary leaders

Dec 22, 2025USC Viterbi board members, Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon and tech entrepreneur Sandeep Tandon, were honored.

The Free Press Journal: Crafting Tomorrow’s AI-Ready Engineers

Dec 22, 2025Dean Yortsos was interviewed by Indian outlet, the Free Press.

USC Viterbi’s Visionary: The Man Who Invented 3D-Printed Buildings

Dec 09, 2025How USC Viterbi Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis invented Contour Crafting 30 years ago and pioneered the entire field of large-scale 3D construction printing.

Nature: Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?

Dec 01, 2025Maryam Shanechi was interviewed as an expert in brain-computer interfaces.

NBC: X reveals where some users are based. It might backfire

Dec 01, 2025Luca Luceri was quoted on research related to coordinated campaigns on social media platforms.

Penn State University: AI tool helps visually impaired users ‘feel’ where objects are in real time

Dec 01, 2025Laurent Itti was mentioned as co-author on a paper introducing NaviSense, a tool to help people who are visually impaired navigate their environments.

Indian Express: New artificial neuron uses electrical pulses to process information in a brain-like manner

Dec 01, 2025Research by Joshua Yang and colleagues was featured.

USC Today: Biomedical Engineering Research into Brain Tumors and Leukemia Awarded NEMO Prizes

Nov 25, 2025Longwei Liu, Keyue Shen and Peter Yingxiao Wang are part of cross-disciplinary teams awarded funding through the annual NEMO Prize, which supports collaborations between USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers and the university’s health sciences schools.

USC News: Wide range of application for artificial intelligence is focus of inaugural USC AI Summit

Nov 16, 2025Article features the inaugural AI Summit held at Ginsburg Hall; CAIS Co-Director and ISE Professor Phebe Vayanos was featured.

Forbes: The Top Startups To Watch From Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 Batch

Nov 16, 2025Viterbi student startup Lemma launched by Jerry Zhang and Cole Gawin was featured.

TodayHeadline: Teaching Robotics in Schools Boosts Kids’ Coding Skills and Career Aspirations

Nov 16, 2025A study by Professor Ragusa and Lilian Leung was featured.

LA Times: Up to 1,800 flights a day could be disrupted

Nov 07, 2025Aviation Safety and Security program Director Tom Anthony, who worked at the FAA for 25 years, explains how flight cuts could reduce public risk.

CBS: Shutdown leads to 10% reduction in U.S. air traffic

Nov 06, 2025Tom Anthony explains the complexities of involved in maintaining air travel safety.

Interesting Engineering: New artificial neurons replicate real brain chemistry for smarter AI hardware design

Nov 02, 2025A neuromorphic innovation led by Joshua Yang, was featured.

Spectrum News 1: California steps up rare earth mining as U.S. seeks to rival China’s control

Oct 27, 2025USC/ISI’s Craig Knoblock was featured for his project using data analytics to help locate rare earth minerals

Spectrum News: From USC to NASA: How SoCal is powering the next space race

Oct 19, 2025Garrett Reisman and Dave Barnhart were interviewed about alumna Katherine Spies becoming an astronaut and how USC is preparing students to take part in the space economy.

Sci Mag: Engineers Create Eco-Friendly Solid Lubricant to Replace Toxic Farming Materials

Oct 19, 2025Research by Paul Bogdan and colleagues was featured.

Deadline: Sora 2 Is Here – What This Means For Comedian Discovery & Ticketing

Oct 19, 2025David Nelson was interviewed about how the quality of AI making it difficult to distinguish what is real versus fake.

The Conversation: Child malnutrition in Kenya: AI model can forecast rates six months before they become critical

Oct 19, 2025CAIS Director Bistra Dilkina and Laura Ferguson of Keck School of Medicine contributed a piece describing their research

Dean Yortsos gives the plenary lecture at the 2025 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting

Oct 10, 2025USC Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos provides his thinking on AI and Engineering Education

KCAL News: Fire at Chevron Refinery Extinguished

Oct 05, 2025Najm Meshkati was interviewed about the fire and discussed CA's strict safety standards.

ABC7: USC student develops breakthrough app helping doctors treat childhood cancer faster

Sep 30, 2025Arjun Karnwal was featured for developing software to aid radiation oncologists at CHLA treat children with cancer

WSJ: Bot networks are dragging brands into culture wars

Sep 29, 2025Emilio Ferrara was interviewed about the uptick in coordinated bot attacks

International Federation of Engineering Education Societies: Dean Yortsos receives IFEES Duncan Fraser Award

Sep 29, 2025Award recognizes “individuals who have made innovative and meritorious contributions with a significant impact on the advancement of engineering education.”

Dean Yannis Yortsos leads an NAE Forum panel on the Future of AI

Sep 24, 2025This forum brought together leading voices from academia, industry and policy to examine artificial intelligence’s transformative impact on engineering.

NASA: Chemical Engineering Alum selected for NASA 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class

Sep 23, 2025A native of San Diego, Katherine Spies received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from USC Viterbi in 2004.

The Next Innovation: Bringing Brands to Life With Augmented Reality

Sep 22, 2025ICT's Randy Hill was interviewed about the next generation of spatial storytelling

Indian Express: USC Viterbi School of Engineering & School of Advanced Computing introduce new UG course in AI

Sep 22, 2025New undergraduate degree in AI was featured.

Spectrum News: More schools letting students major in artificial intelligence

Sep 03, 2025The new SAC undergraduate bachelor's degree in AI was featured along with the Business of AI degree.

Marketplace Radio: A Pipeline for Advanced Chipmaking

Sep 03, 2025Andrea Belz was interviewed about a research study related to the demand for skilled STEM workers for manufacturing chips.

Earth.com: Ewa Deelman’s Pegasus workflow helps reveal Milky Way black hole’s spin and orientation

Sep 02, 2025A new study reveals that the Milky Way’s central black hole is spinning at nearly maximum speed and is oriented almost directly toward Earth. The research used USC ISI’s Pegasus workflow, developed by Ewa Deelman, to manage the massive data processing involved. Pegasus was also featured in an earlier project on black hole analysis.

Drone Flythrough – USC School of Advanced Computing

Aug 20, 2025To celebrate the launch of the new USC School of Advanced Computing, USC Viterbi partnered with JayByrd Films to create a drone fly through video of the new school at Ginsburg Hall - the first "one take" indoor flight video on the USC campus

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