When Self-Driving Trucks Don’t Know What They Don’t Know
At the USC Center for Autonomy and AI’s fall workshop, participants grappled with a critical question: Can foundation models power the next generation of autonomous systems?
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She’s Taught Tennis to Politicians and Movie Stars. Now, She’s Helped Over 10,000 Kids Learn Coding
Little more than a decade ago: Kathy “Coach” Kemper had a vision for a unique coding camp. She found the perfect doubles partner at USC Viterbi.
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USC Viterbi’s ECE Celebrates Innovation at 2025 MHI Research Festival
From live demos and poster sessions to lab tours, the 15th MHI Research Festival highlighted USC ECE’s pivotal role in powering the nation’s innovation and the value of student research.
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Beyond the Hype: Quantum Computers Start Solving Real Problems
At ISI’s LA Tech Week panel, researchers explored how the principles of quantum mechanics are becoming real-world technologies, with high hopes for drug discovery
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Where Service Meets Storytelling
U.S. veteran David Cobbins, ’13, leads cutting-edge virtual training programs at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.
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USC Rocket Propulsion Lab Launches First Payload
The successful launch of USCRPL’s latest rocket, Malibu, marks a major turning point for the record-breaking student team: the ability to send a payload up to space.
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In Memoriam: Alice Gast 1958 – 2025
USC Viterbi alumna, valedictorian and former president of Imperial College London
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AI Is Powering the Search for America’s Critical Minerals
At USC ISI, researchers are using machine learning to unlock data from thousands of maps and build one of the world’s largest knowledge bases of global mineral resources.
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Maral Mousavi Wins Prestigious International Award in Electroanalytical Sciences
Mousavi, an expert in electrochemical sensors for at-home and point-of-care testing, has been honored with the 2026 Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award.
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What Can Simulate Nature? Aid Blockbuster Drugs? And Get Congress to Agree?
USC, home of the first operational quantum computer in academia, hosted its second quantum technology forum, bringing together leading experts from industry, academia and government.
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New ISE Faculty Bring Expertise in Analytics, Optimization, Healthcare and Applied Probability
USC Viterbi welcomes new ISE faculty members Karthyek Murthy, Karmel S. Shehadeh, Alfredo Torrico and Shengbo Wang.
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The Hidden Chemistry of Human Survival
Jeremy Alexander, Doug Peacock Scholar, finds innovation in overlooked spaces – from wastewater microbes to aerospace materials – to protect life on Earth and beyond.
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Space Robotics at the Edge of the Unknown
The USC Department of Astronautical Engineering (ASTE) is expanding its focus on space robotics, with an emphasis on autonomous systems that can operate in extreme and unmapped environments.
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Artificial neurons developed by USC team replicate biological function for improved computer chips
Breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could reduce energy use of chips and advance artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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USC Researchers Develop First Wireless, Wearable, Real-Time, Camera-less Motion Tracker
USC ACME lab is reshaping the field of motion tracking with a new technology based on magnetic induction.
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Introducing the First Cohort of Astani Graduate Sustainability Scholars
A recently launched program at the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering provides a launchpad for young scholars to research major environmental challenges.
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New NIH Project to Model Breast Tumors for Better Immunotherapy
Stacey Finley will co-lead the five-year $2.6 million project that will harness computational modeling to find effective immunotherapy approaches against devastating metastatic breast tumors.
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Researchers Invent New AI Tool to Automate Detection of Cancer in Blood Samples
Innovation detects cancer cells in blood samples (liquid biopsies) in as little as 10 minutes and identifies hard-to-find cells without humans in-the-loop
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Space Robotics Platform Astrobee Set for Commercial Transition for ISS Operations
USC/ISI hosted researchers and startups to discuss NASA’s Astrobee for next-generation space robotics
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Click Here for Confusion: The State of Privacy Settings
Finding a privacy setting on social media should be simple. But a new study from USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) shows it’s anything but.
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USC Secures Hat Trick at Interspeech 2025 with 3 Research Awards
USC SAIL Lab’s Best Paper and Dual Grand Challenge Wins Solidify its Leadership in Speech Communication Science and Technology
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Serving the Nation with Purpose
U.S. Veteran William Vanderwaal, ’17, reflects on his leadership in combat and his appreciation for USC Viterbi.
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Creating A Future of Convenient AI Systems
USC students collaborated with the artificial intelligence startup Aurite to develop solutions for job searching, travel planning, and more.
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Building a Digital Apprentice
Presented at a DARPA tech demo, ISI’s KNIC system supports complex tasks by learning from those who’ve done them before.
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USC at CORL 2025
From language-driven robot learning to advanced manipulation techniques, USC researchers collaborated across labs and showcased diverse breakthroughs at CORL 2025
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3 New Faculty Members Join the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joining from Yale, UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech, these new faculty bring trailblazing AI research to USC that further positions the department as a leader in advanced computing.
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Robots, Meet Your New Teacher: Yourselves
A USC Viterbi graduate student team co-developed a new robotic system that adapts and learns every second.
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A Sensor Stir Stick to Keep Your Caffeine Hit in Check
USC biomedical engineers have created a low-cost stirrer to precisely measure a drink’s caffeine concentration, helping coffee-lovers avoid the pitfalls of over-caffeination.
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USC Research Harnesses AI to Predict and Understand Complex Fluid Mixing
Research from the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has unraveled the mystery of viscous fingering, in work that could be critical to groundwater remediation and oil recovery.
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USC Viterbi Team Demonstrates First Optical Device Based on “Optical Thermodynamics”
Innovation could help chips process information more efficiently
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Medical Electronics that Match the Stretchability of Human Tissue
Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a novel method for fabricating highly precise and stretchable electronics that conform seamlessly to the body.
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Transforming Buildings Into Intelligent Systems: Workspaces to Improve Your Mood
Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering are reimagining buildings as intelligent engineered systems that adapt to human cognitive states.
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USC Viterbi Student Wins Prestigious Astronaut Scholarship
Alara Berkmen, a biomedical engineering student, is recognized for leadership and dedication to cancer research.
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Robotaxis Keep Riders Safe, But What About Their Data?
A collaborative research team with USC ISI expertise finds that existing methods for selecting privacy enhancing technologies are inadequate for real-world robotaxis
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State of the School 2025: Flourishing in the Age of AI
In his annual address, Dean Yannis Yortsos spoke of the school’s progress and of what he expects will be the role of AI in engineering education and research.
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Protecting the Digital World of Golf
Rosalia Hajek, ’06, Topgolf Callaway Brands’ chief information security officer, named a Top 100 Global Leader.
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Harnessing Data to End Hospital Gridlock and Streamline Surgery
New data-driven models developed by a USC and Carnegie Mellon-led team could reduce surgery delays, cut hospital costs by up to 60% and improve access to surgery.
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New Language Technologies for American Sign Language
USC Researchers achieved 91 percent accuracy at computer recognition of signs
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How AI Got A New And Improved Personality
Ph.D. student Bin Han led the development of a special AI project with potential applications in healthcare, business and more.
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Earthquakes, Tailgates and Superhero Movies: USC Structural Engineers Share Their Stories
Alumni of the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) reflect on how their USC education equipped them with the skills, connections and persistence to tackle high stakes challenges.
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From Drought to DOE: Alumna Bria Jamison is Shaping National Environmental Policy
USC Viterbi alumna Bria Jamison (BS ’18, MS ’19) has dedicated her career to advancing water and energy sustainability – now, she’s influencing public policy decisions at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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New USC Viterbi Eye Study Could Redefine Rules of Tissue Behavior
USC biomedical engineers have shown that tissue stiffness does not always follow fiber orientation – an exception with implications for glaucoma, myopia, and ocular trauma.
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Energi Simulation Renews Research Chair in Subsurface Energy Data Science at USC Viterbi
Data science and AI-driven research optimizes the development and management of subsurface fluids and energy.
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SprintRay, a USC Viterbi-Born Business, Wins Prestigious E&Y 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Two USC alumni co-founded the 3D printing company for dentists, which has become an industry leader.
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Brain’s Blood Flow Could Change How We Understand and Treat Alzheimer’s
New USC Viterbi-led study focusing on brain’s vascular dynamics challenges the current prevailing method of dementia diagnosis and treatment.
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC School of Advanced Computing Launch an Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
First cohort to start on campus in Fall 2026
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Gaming the cancer-immunity cycle by synchronizing treatment schedules
What if cancer treatment could be made more effective and less toxic – not by inventing new drugs, but by rethinking the timing strategy of existing therapies?
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‘Like the Piano Tuners of Quantum Computers’
A startup co-founded by Daniel Lidar, a pioneer in quantum computing, is producing software to unlock quantum’s considerable potential.
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USC ISI and Stanford HAI Host 2025 AI Index Panel
From foundation models to global AI regulation, the expert panel examined the trends, challenges, and opportunities highlighted in this year’s AI Index report
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USC Team Develops New Sensory Robot Hand Advancements
Professor Daniel Seita collaborated with a student team in developing the MOTIF Hand, a tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology.
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What’s Cooking in the Advanced Materials and Metallurgy Labs?
From the perspective of USC researcher Wen Chen, human history is a tale of material transformation.
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New DARPA-Funded Project Aims to Unravel the Brain’s Learning Secrets
A USC Viterbi team will lead the study that could inform future diagnoses for neurological disorders and the development of next-generation bio-inspired AI.
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Hangbo Zhao Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Advanced Manufacturing Research
The $546,713 award will support Zhao’s pioneering work in high-resolution manufacturing of stretchable electronics.
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Why Your Friends May Be More Susceptible to Influence Than You Are
USC/ISI researchers examine who gets influenced online and why, in award-winning research recognized at ICWSM 2025.
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New Discovery Reveals the Spinal Cord’s Role in Bladder Control
A first-of-its-kind study offers hope for future treatments of urinary incontinence caused by neurological disorders, aging and other conditions.
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ISI at ACL 2025
Papers explore the struggles of AI teaching, authorship, AI safety, and the limits of language models in interviews and mime.
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New Wearable Sensor Made at USC Could Help Patients with Bipolar Disorder Track Medication Levels Through Sweat
The wearable sensor, believed to be first of its kind, could vastly improve treatment and drug safety for millions of patients who take lithium for bipolar disorder.
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Unlocking the Brain’s Filing Cabinet
USC researchers have discovered how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing.
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Two USC Professors Win Inaugural Google Junior Faculty Awards
Robin Jia and Ibrahim Sabek among 50 assistant professors nationwide to receive $100,000 grants for computing research.
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USC at ICML 2025
From health applications to theoretical breakthroughs, USC researchers contribute to a dynamic range of work at this year’s premier machine learning conference
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Discovering New Materials: AI Can Simulate Billions of Atoms Simultaneously
Allegro-FM achieves breakthrough scalability for materials research, enabling simulations 1,000 times larger than previous models.
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Beyond “Run, Hide, Fight”: Defensive Design for Safer Campuses
A team of USC researchers have developed a simulation strategy for understanding and predicting how people respond to emergencies such as active shooter incidents and fires.
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AI Unlocks Earth’s Subsurface Mysteries for Smart Energy Applications
As global energy challenges continue to escalate, a pioneering AI-driven study by USC Viterbi researchers offers timely solutions to CO₂ storage and resource management.
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A Real-Time Look at How AI Is Reshaping Work
USC students and researchers track where AI is having the biggest impact on jobs, salaries, and industries.
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RSS 2025 Marks Largest in History as Conference Returns to USC
USC faculty and students hosted the 21st Robotics: Science and System Conference, featuring world-class robotics labs, demos, workshops, and paper presentations.
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Analyzing How Americans Debate Abortion
ISI researchers show how liberals and conservatives use diverging frames to discuss abortion—with increasing hostility.
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Could Open-Source Medical Devices Transform Healthcare?
USC Viterbi researchers examine how an open-source approach is changing the game for the medical device sector, accelerating research and bringing benefits to patients.
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A Game-Changing Wireless Implant for Personalized Chronic Pain Relief
USC researchers have developed a groundbreaking ultrasound device that could reduce our reliance on addictive painkillers.
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ISI at ICWSM 2025
Eleven papers explore labor inequality, language bias, political division, and TikTok’s role in crisis communication.
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New USC study demonstrates unconditional exponential quantum scaling advantage
Conducted on IBM quantum processors, study demonstrates “a promise of quantum computing previously articulated only on paper.”
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Can AI Be Your Therapist? Not Quite Yet, Says New USC Study
USC study finds large language models fall short of humans in building therapeutic rapport – a critical factor in mental health care.
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Reimagining Energy
Annual USC Viterbi ECET Summit highlights cutting-edge research, energy augmentation breakthroughs, a new energy degree offering, and insights shaping the economics of energy and business.
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USC Viterbi School and BITS Pilani Forge Global Partnership to Advance Research and Education
Agreement between two schools creates new degree program and joint academic exchange.
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Researchers Uncover Hidden Airport Hotspots in Global Wildlife Trafficking Using AI
New Nature study highlights predictive power of AI in identifying airports used as key nodes in illegal wildlife trade networks
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Turning Research Into Reality: USC Launches New Tech Innovation Fellowship
Two visionary company founders set the stage for groundbreaking research to become thriving startups
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It’s Time to Say Goodbye to “Forever Chemicals”
National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards $8 million for a new USC Superfund Center to research and address “forever chemicals.”
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Where Doctors Go: Using Data to Map Where Physicians Start Their Careers
New ISI study finds top medical school graduates are less likely to practice in underserved areas.
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Zhenglu Li Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Materials Research
The $595,000 award will support Li’s pioneering work in complex quantum materials.
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Bringing Digital Light to Live-Action Filmmaking
Prof. Andrew Gordon and Ph.D. candidate Natali Chavez from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies explore new AI-assisted workflows for low-cost virtual production.
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Smart Enough to Know Better? How AI Handles Legal Questions
ISI researchers tested large language models on sensitive legal scenarios and found surprising vulnerabilities.
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USC at ICRA 2025
USC School of Advanced Computing and USC Viterbi researchers showcase breakthroughs in generative modeling, safety in imitation learning, human-aware planning and more at ICRA 2025, one of the most prestigious gatherings in robotics.
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New Nanoparticle Weapon in the Fight Against Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease
The Chung Lab has engineered a new therapeutically enhanced, naturally derived particle for powerful gene therapies to tackle our most significant health challenges.
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Excellence, Curiosity, Character: The Graduates of the USC Viterbi Class of 2025
At the USC Viterbi undergraduate commencement ceremony, the next generation of engineers are encouraged to advance technology that solves the world’s grand challenges.
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“You Are Agents of Change”: The USC Viterbi Master’s Class of 2025
At the USC Viterbi master’s commencement ceremonies, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos praised graduates on the “singular achievement” of earning their master’s degree.
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“Building A Better World:” Dean Yannis C. Yortsos Tells Graduates They Will Make A Difference
The 2025 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 150 new graduates and Haotian Hang, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis
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Leaping Lizards! Class of 2025 Grad Looks to Reptiles to Help ACL Injuries
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering graduating senior Alex Kuncz is studying how lizards regenerate their tails to improve orthopedic treatments.
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New Study Shows AI Can Predict Child Malnutrition, Support Prevention Efforts
AI-driven tool developed for Kenya offers governments and decision-makers critical lead time to save lives by forecasting malnutrition up to six months in advance with up to 89% accuracy
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The Student Senator Making an Impact in Women’s Health
Class of 2025 biomedical engineering graduate Emilia Bletsas reflects on her path at USC Viterbi.
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Turning Brainwaves Into Biomarkers: How a USC Grad Is Using Code to Improve Early Autism Intervention
After starting with Minecraft mods at 13, Joey Yap now applies his skills in signal processing to pediatric brain data and is headed to NYU for a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering.
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Harnessing Creativity in Crisis: USC’s “Lives, Not Grades” Responds to Los Angeles Fires
When wildfires swept across Los Angeles, students in USC’s Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Challenges program – better known by its motto Lives, Not Grades – quickly shifted their focus from international projects to urgent needs at home
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From Scratch to Cybersecurity: Lavanya Sharma’s USC Journey
A fifth-grade workshop and encouraging parents set this USC computer science student-and 2025 commencement flag-bearer-on a path to engineering, ethics, and advocacy.
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He Rode 103 Roller Coasters. Now He’s Building the Next One.
How one USC computer science student found his calling at the intersection of computer science, storytelling, and themed entertainment
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Graduate Matthew Fontaine Honored With 2025 USC Ph.D. Achievement Award
Fontaine hopes that his work in algorithmic scenario generation will make robotics and AI systems safer before they are deployed.
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Wearable Smart Lactation Pad Detects Chemicals and Nutrients in Breast Milk
A BME graduate student having her first baby inspired the research group to work on technology gaps in lactation health.
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Imagining the Future of Deep Space Habitats
PhD student Ulubilge Ulusoy researches optimal collaboration between humans and AI during maintenance operations in deep space habitats.
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Fascinated by Flow
Oliver Khan, a graduating student in aerospace engineering, dreams of a sustainable future for supersonic air travel.
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Raising the Stakes of Sustainability
As a graduating master’s student researching carbon capture and clean energy production, Aadish Panchmia is determined to make a difference.
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An Adventurer’s Approach to Academic Achievement
Natalia Ratner, a graduating student studying environmental engineering, has combined a superstar academic career with experience in community teaching and sustainable farming.
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What it Means to Engineer with Empathy
Patrick Borges Rodrigues’ PhD in civil engineering has led to a new understanding of the sensory symbiosis of human workers and robots in the construction industry.
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Harnessing the Power of Ocean Energy
Sophie Beitel, a graduating student studying environmental engineering, is helping to design and build a deep-sea battery.