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The Grand Challenges Scholars Program Network, a Reimagining of 21st Century Engineers, Moves to USC

Sep 29, 2023

The national program, adopted by nearly 100 universities, was co-created by USC Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos

Faculty and Students Pay Tribute to Software Engineering Pioneer Barry Boehm

Sep 28, 2023

Boehm is remembered as a dedicated researcher and a “wonderful advisor”, who greatly shaped the life of his students and colleagues.

DEN@Viterbi celebrates 50 years of high-impact distance learning

Sep 28, 2023

The progressive pedagogy of the pioneering distance learning program has changed the lives of graduate students worldwide.

A Tribute to Excellence and Equity: the John Brooks Slaughter Center for Engineering Diversity

Sep 21, 2023

From Topeka to the White House, Slaughter has lifted as he climbed

Just Play It Cool…Pre-Cool

Sep 19, 2023

Dramatically cooling homes with renewable energy in the middle of the day could reduce carbon dioxide emissions, save consumers money and prevent rolling blackouts

Port Cities in North Africa and the Middle East are Losing the Battle Against Climate Extremes

Sep 18, 2023

Studies warn against major hydroclimatic, and environmental vulnerabilities

Ten New Faculty Members Join the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Sep 13, 2023

The new faculty members hail from top universities, leading laboratories and innovative industry sectors across the nation

“You’re Never Alone:” Leveraging Technology to Prevent Sexual Assault

Sep 12, 2023

A USC Viterbi-led startup is developing a bracelet to send a distress signals, along with a map of the sender’s location, to groups of friends at parties to keep people safe and connected

USC Computer Science Named the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

Sep 12, 2023

The department will be housed in the new LEED-Platinum certified building, the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall.

VR will change the way we train for active shooter incidents

Sep 11, 2023

Immersive virtual environments provide healthcare workers with a highly effective method to prepare for emergencies.

Designing an Engine Ready for Hydrogen Combustion

Sep 08, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting a major USC research initiative to advance the next stage of the clean energy revolution.

USC Viterbi-Led Startup Science of Sport Connects Kids to STEM

Sep 01, 2023

USC Viterbi alumnus Ricardo Valerdi teaches students STEM through the joy of sports, including partnerships with MLB and the NBA

Tackling Climate Change with the Help of “Coffee Filters for Molecules”

Aug 31, 2023

Luis Francisco Villalobos joins USC Viterbi, bringing expertise in separation technology for energy transition and water filtration.

Origami-Inspired Strain Sensors for Stretchable Soft Robotics

Aug 29, 2023

USC researchers have developed an innovative solution to measure the motion of soft components in robotics.

Aaron McCloud Was a Student With Bad Grades and Deep Potential. He Created a Company to Help Kids Just Like Him.

Aug 24, 2023

Intervene K-12 serves over 30,000 students in more than 20 school districts to provide high-impact tutoring for K-12 students within the school day.

Phebe Vayanos Named Co-Director of USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society

Aug 22, 2023

Vayanos leverages operations research and artificial intelligence to help underserved and marginalized communities.

A Smarter Approach to Answer Financial Questions

Aug 17, 2023

USC Information Sciences Institute researchers apply a case-based reasoning approach using relevant examples to help answer financial questions.

The ReWater Center will Revolutionize Resource Resilience

Aug 16, 2023

The Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is at the forefront of research for the treatment and reuse of one of our greatest resources: water.

Causal Effects: Distinguishing Correlation from Causation

Aug 15, 2023

USC Information Sciences Institute researchers grapple with hidden variables in cause-and-effect studies to make better-informed decisions.

New Laser-Array Processor Could Vastly Improve AI Computing Efficiency

Aug 08, 2023

Study conducted by team including USC, MIT shows 100x improvement over existing technology.

Building Better Models Starts With Reexamining the Metrics

Aug 02, 2023

USC computer scientists present a better way to measure the performance of generative AI models at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

Computer Science Student Wins Award for Diabetic Eating Disorder Research

Aug 01, 2023

Natalie Humber created the first scoping review for diabulimia, a potentially fatal disorder that occurs when people with Type 1 diabetes stop taking insulin to lose weight

Predicting the Future, Starting With Billiard Balls and Car Collisions

Aug 01, 2023

An ISI team identifies limitations in dynamics prediction and proposes a solution.

CEE Partners with Dassault Systèmes as a Center of Excellence

Jul 27, 2023

USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) is recognized as a global leader in technology and innovation.

Keeping the Lights On

Jul 27, 2023

USC Viterbi’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari and USC economist Matthew Kahn have proposed an ethical plan to promote power and water conservation that targets the biggest users while protecting the poor.

Maryam Shanechi Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist

Jul 26, 2023

She was recognized for her “pioneering brain-machine interfaces that can model, decode, and control complex neural activity patterns by the intersection of engineering, computing, and neuroscience”

USC at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Jul 25, 2023

USC researchers will present nine papers at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), the leading international conference on machine learning

Six USC Viterbi Faculty Honored with NSF CAREER Awards

Jul 25, 2023

The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty will boost USC research in disease modeling, groundwater systems, machine learning and robotics.

OSEM Wins Nucleate L.A. Pitch Competition

Jul 21, 2023

The USC Viterbi-led startup is creating a 3D printer to produce nanoparticles more efficiently and accurately

Low Cost and Lightweight Hardware will Transform the Space Industry

Jul 20, 2023

USC astronautics professor plays a crucial role in developing hardware for NASA’s first commercial payload to the Moon.

AI That Teaches Other AI

Jul 18, 2023

A new USC study finds that by sharing knowledge with each other at the same time, AI agents can quickly learn a wider range of tasks, with applications in medicine and beyond.

ISI at ACL ’23: Learning from Games, Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias and Searching Events in Hundreds of Languages

Jul 14, 2023

USC’s Information Science Institute (ISI) brings a host of research to the conference – from dialogue models to machine learning to semantic understanding and more.

Dungeons & Dragons: Leading the Conversation through Intents and Theory-of-Mind

Jul 14, 2023

Researchers dive into the study of teacher-student natural language interactions to achieve a shared goal in the fantasy world game, Dungeons & Dragons.

Unbiased Medical Devices for All

Jul 12, 2023

Yasser Khan wins a prestigious Google Research Scholar Award for racial bias correction in a medical device that measures oxygen levels

Codenames Duet: Predicting the Next Guess Based on Cultural Background

Jul 12, 2023

USC Information Sciences Institute researchers dive into the nuances of human behavior and how cultural markers affect decision-making.

Understanding Global Events in Every Language

Jul 11, 2023

USC researchers have developed a novel AI technique to pull information from vast amounts of globally sourced text.

USC to Lead Interdisciplinary Project on Mental Health

Jul 11, 2023

A collaborative effort with UCLA will predict psychological health risk factors

This Chatbot Sounds Familiar

Jul 10, 2023

USC researchers have proposed a novel method to give personalities to language models.

Adam Russell to Lead USC Information Sciences Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Division

Jul 10, 2023

Russell sees AI from an anthropologist’s perspective – looking at human behavior in an era of machines, with an expertise in collective intelligence and cross-disciplinary thinking.

Will Generative AI Become the Weapon of Choice for Fraudsters?

Jul 07, 2023

A panel for Los Angeles Tech Week discussed issues, opportunities and solutions surrounding generative AI in the cybersecurity world.

USC Viterbi Delegation Visits Armenia for First Time

Jul 06, 2023

School’s leadership meets with universities and institutions cultivating tech talent

USC Computer Science Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Jul 06, 2023

Emily Nguyen and James Flemings were recognized for their contributions to deep generative models focusing on wildfire prevention and privacy in machine learning.

Tackling Cosmic Radiation in Next-Gen Space Computing

Jul 05, 2023

Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute are developing ways to protect future hardware from the effects of space.

USC Computer Science Student Makes Strides in Queer in AI Movement

Jun 29, 2023

As a member of the award-winning, international group, Nathan Dennler is empowering LGBTQ+ voices in AI research.

USC Viterbi Students Engineer Success for USC Men’s Crew Team

Jun 28, 2023

Combining Academic Excellence and Athletic Prowess for Competitive Edge

From Safety to Wellness: What the AME Instructional Labs Do Differently

Jun 27, 2023

The approach to hands-on learning at the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) sets the tone for the 2023 Student Shop Managers Conference.

Student Excellence Takes Center Stage at Grodins Symposium

Jun 26, 2023

The Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of its student research showcase.

From Synthesis to Symphonies: Blending Materials with Music

Jun 23, 2023

USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Claire Wu was recently awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her materials research.

To the Ends of the Earth: Bringing the Bible to Languages Never Before Reached

Jun 19, 2023

Researchers at the Information Sciences Institute are developing technology that helps to streamline Bible translation.

Russia-Ukraine War: Social Media Platforms Uplift the Vulnerable

Jun 15, 2023

Despite the spread of misinformation, USC Information Sciences Institute researchers find that social networks play a key role helping those in distress.

Universities in California, Arizona, and Nevada Form Consortium to Address Clean Water Access and Sustainability Challenges

Jun 08, 2023

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to Fund Academic Research to Improve Clean Water Access and Security

Don’t Feel Like Waiting 5+ Hours at the ER? Meet Your New Allies.

Jun 06, 2023

USC Viterbi students in health systems management engineering have developed strategies to reduce hospital wait times and increase overall efficiencies.

Quantum Computers Are Better at Guessing, New Study Demonstrates

Jun 06, 2023

USC researchers leverage techniques to manage error accumulation, demonstrating the potential of quantum computing in the error-prone NISQ era

USC Students Advance Augmented Reality for Artemis Astronauts

Jun 05, 2023

NASA SUITS challenges students to boost astronauts’ capacity for safe and ambitious exploration.

Radical Signals: Looking for Signs of QAnon Radicalization on Twitter

Jun 05, 2023

A team of USC researchers propose a better way to model conspiracy theories on Twitter.

First USC Research Prototype Launches for Testing on the International Space Station

Jun 02, 2023

CLINGERS, a unique docking system, is designed to facilitate sensing and docking operations in space.

Onward and upward with the USC AeroDesign Team

Jun 02, 2023

The USC AeroDesign Team has a stellar track record of success. Now, they’re setting their goals even higher.

The Internet Has a Dark Side – Can We Teach Machines How To Identify It?

Jun 01, 2023

ISI researchers are developing technology that can detect logical fallacies in AI and classify hate speech in internet memes

USC Viterbi Issues “On Chain” Verified, Digital Credential to Graduating 2023 Grand Challenge Scholars Students

May 31, 2023

Creation of Customized, On-Chain Verified Credential is a first for the School

Unfolding the Mystery of Proteins

May 31, 2023

Assistant professor Wade Zeno, an expert in proteins, wins the prestigious ESI MIRA award from the NIH

A New Wave in Wireless Communication: The National Radio Dynamic Zone

May 30, 2023

ISI leads an initiative in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the University of Utah (UoU) to expand spectrum access across the nation

Get Ready for a World of Self-Growing and Healing “Living” Materials

May 26, 2023

New research at USC Viterbi School of Engineering seeks to upcycle waste materials by harnessing the power of microorganisms.

So You’d Like a Job at the Largest Aerospace Company in the World?

May 26, 2023

Unique partnership between Boeing and USC Viterbi allows paid summer internships, tuition expenses and a full time position after graduation.

Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test

May 25, 2023

Can language models be trusted to reason like humans do? Are they good at making decisions? These researchers set off to find out.

Are You More Vaccine Hesitant Than A 57-Year-Old?

May 24, 2023

Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute used machine learning and deep statistical analysis to look for answers about vaccine hesitancy.

Advancing Computer Vision One Pixel at a Time

May 17, 2023

USC Viterbi researchers propose a novel framework to address challenges in computer vision.

E-CET Pushes the Frontiers of Energy Transition

May 15, 2023

The Ershaghi Center for Energy Transition Convenes Stakeholders and Funds Research Projects

Carl Kesselman Honored with 2023 IEEE Internet Award

May 15, 2023

The Information Sciences Institute Fellow will receive the prestigious award.

Wide Awake and Dreaming: USC Viterbi’s 2023 Master’s Commencement Ceremonies

May 13, 2023

The class of 2023 is “the best educated, the most representative in our history.”

“At Heart, We’re Problem Solvers:” USC Viterbi Undergraduate Commencement 2023

May 13, 2023

This year’s ceremony at Alumni Park was headlined by alumnus and venture capitalist, Mark Stevens, who praised the power and versatility of an engineering degree

The BME Grad Championing Gender-Affirming Healthcare

May 12, 2023

Senior Sabrina Sy reflects a unique interdisciplinary marriage between biomedical engineering and gender and sexuality studies.

“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”

May 12, 2023

The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.

Best of Brownlee’s Worlds

May 10, 2023

Graduating senior Shannon Brownlee connects her computer science skills to explore biology and virtual art, all while building her own tech startup

Engineering the Ultimate Ride: Hannah Rose’s Quest to Push the Limits of Theme Park Innovation

May 10, 2023

A Taylor Swift theme park? For Rose, a leader in USC’s themed entertainment student group, why not?

Two Graduating Seniors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

May 10, 2023

Both students are among the first cohort of the Ming Hsieh Institute Undergraduate Scholars program.

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