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Jesse Thomason of USC Viterbi and PhD student, Ishika Singh, were highlighted for their work to help robots complete real-world tasks.
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Jesse Thomason of USC Viterbi and PhD student, Ishika Singh, were highlighted for their work to help robots complete real-world tasks.
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Bistra Dilkina was interviewed about her use of AI to predict sea-level rise, protect biodiversity and prevent poaching
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Shri Narayanan was interviewed about USC SAIL’s AI-based text and language analysis of media representation and portrayals.
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USC was announced as an inaugural member of a new DOC consortium dedicated to AI safety; Yolanda Gil will lead the effort from USC
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Shri Narayanan spoke with ET Healthworld about USC health research collaborations in India involving AI tools as well as other opportunities for AI in health
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Professor Gaurav Sukhatme, “a thoughtful and responsible innovator,” was installed as the inaugural director of the university’s 23rd school during a Wednesday ceremony on the University Park Campus.
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Gaurav Sukhatme has been appointed the school’s inaugural director for the “school within a school”
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Yolanda Gil was interviewed about her work with using AI for controlled burns and preventing wildfire.
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Executive Vice Dean Gaurav Sukhatme was interviewed about the opportunities at USC Viterbi for international students including in AI, robotics and space.
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Barath Raghavan, an associate professor in computer science, proposes a plan to take cloud security into our own hands by decoupling our identities from our data.
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Yolanda Gil was interviewed about AI’s potential to advance scientific research
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The university will lead one of eight regional innovation hubs funded by the CHIPS and Science Act.
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Swabha Swayamdipta, an assistant professor of computer science, is among 15 early-career academic researchers selected by Intel this year.
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Yolanda Gil tells The Economist that cross-disciplinary research will become more common due to AI
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Maja Matarić was interviewed about the potential for socially assistive robotics
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New research by Laurent Itti and Ph.D. student Yunhao Ge was featured.
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Computer Science Professor Emilio Ferrara explains why blindly eliminating biases in AI can have unintended consequences. Instead, he says, bias in AI can be controlled to achieve a higher goal: fairness.
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Barath Raghavan and co-author Bill Schneier suggest an “AI Dividend”
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Computer science student Paul Chiou’s research focuses on automatically finding and fixing keyboard accessibility issues in both web and Android apps.
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Executive Vice Dean Gaurav Sukhatme was interviewed about his career trajectory and the state of the robotics field
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Dean Yortsos and PhD student Emily Nguyen were featured about the FOC Initiative, Nguyen discussed her work applying AI towards treatments for ovarian cancer.
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The SAIL Lab was mentioned as a collaborator with the Geena Davis Institute to address bias through media intelligence
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Cliff Neuman was quoted on network security.
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Wael Abd Almageed was interviewed and discussed the danger of misinformation spread
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Isabel Rayas and Christopher Denniston were interviewed about their work in the Robotics Embedded Systems Lab
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Dean Yortsos was interviewed about “Frontiers of Computing” and how “Computer science, data sciences and AI have become essentially an extension of the original fundamentals.”
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Jon Gratch shared his research on how interacting with an AI changes human behavior
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Cyrus Shahabi was interviewed about how AI can address LA’s problems and the Frontiers of Computing Initiative
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Forbes highlighted FOC and quoted Dean Yortsos saying “The world needs engineers and computer scientists to solve the grand challenges we face.”
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Viterbi to create a School of Advanced Computing and rename the Computer Science Department for benefactor Thomas Lord
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Research by Bistra Dilkina, Thomas Petersen and Essam Heggy was featured.
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Expert in socially assistive robotics joins leaders selected from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science
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Wired published a piece by Barath Raghavan and a colleague
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Wael Abd Almageed spoke to SA about the state of detection for AI generated images
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This article mentions that Bill Swartout will co-lead the new Center on Generative AI.
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A study conducted by experts at USC found that two in five Venmo users publicly revealed sensitive information
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Swabha Swayamdipta discussed the status of large language models.
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The article mentions USC Viterbi computer science alumni, Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, are key contributors to the research that led to ChatGPT
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Kristina Lerman was interviewed about the effects of Twitter API change on scientific research
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Jonathan May contributed a piece on possible uses of ChatGPT
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A haptic texture detection method developed by computer science doctoral student Shihan Lu, advised by Heather Culbertson, is featured in IEEE.
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Wael Abd-Almageed commenting on A.I. generated art and other content.
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Swabha Swayamdipta, an assistant professor of computer science, discusses ways to overcome data constraints for large language models.
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Quanta interviews Shang-Hua Teng, a USC computer science professor who has twice won the Gödel Prize, a top honor in theoretical computer science, but often explores playful applications, like board games.
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Wael Abd Almageed was quoted about the future of deepfakes
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Cybersecurity expert Cliff Neuman was interviewed about how cards might be compromised
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Jesse Thomason was interviewed about the significance of ChatbotGPT
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The story mentions the USC Games’ Gerald A. Lawson Fund that was set up at USC Games to support the next generation of gamers
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Computer Science student Anshay Saboo was featured in various outlets after launching his app Instafest, that went viral.
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The latest report from Google, the USC SAIL Lab and Geena Davis Institute on media representation was highlighted.
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Cliff Neuman was interviewed about dark patterns and what consumers could do to protect themselves against online marketing practices.
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Taking a cue from the animal world, USC researchers discovered a simple voting rule that optimally reflects voters’ opinions about candidates. Lead author Fatih Kizilkaya, a computer science doctoral student, discusses the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award-winning work.
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Jon May was featured in a podcast focused on developing tools for more civil online communication
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PhD students will receive fellowship funding and be mentored by Amazon scientists.
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Research by Katy Felkner to mitigate AI bias towards the LGBTQ+ community was highlighted
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Cliff Neuman was quoted on about a recent LAUSD cyber attack and why the district was targeted
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The labs of Francisco Valero-Cuevas and Quan Nguyen were featured in on “Techfor Good” segment on robots and biomimcry
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A startup by Barath Raghavan and Paul Schmitt was featured.
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AI research by doctoral student Katy Felkner was highlighted.
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Cliff Neuman explains how the Disneyland hack may have occurred.
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Professor Matarić is one of 6 scientists and engineers featured by Amazon in its MARS “Luminaries” series. Matarić is featured for her work in the field of socially assistive robotics.
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The upcoming USC Games Expo was featured
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A study about personal information exposed on Venmo was featured
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The USC Games Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous students was highlighted; The forthcoming Games Expo was highlighted.
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Inspired by a type of origami, Viterbi researchers apply autonomous reinforcement learning to develop materials for wearable electronics.
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A collaboration among the La Brea Tar Pits, NHLA and USC to apply AR as educational tools was highlighted.
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Cliff Neuman was interviewed about how the challenges of cyberwarfare and cyber defense
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New research Center led Rahul Jain and Jyo Deshmukh was highlighted
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Day in the Life of a Skateboarder, Piercer, Poet and Coder
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Maja Matarić discusses how robots can be used in school to increase social interaction and engagement.
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Maja Matarić gave a virtual talk at the National Academy of Sciences Science & Entertainment Exchange
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DotLA covered two pieces of Viterbi news this week, Dean Yortsos was interviewed adding, “some sort of a digital literacy will become as important as other general education requirements”
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New research by Barath Raghavan was featured
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Professor Culbertson’s research on virtual touch was featured.
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Research by Laurent Itti that applies the same method that is used to create deep fakes for the benefit of brain- machine interfaces for individuals with disabilities, was featured
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Emmanuel Johnson and Jasmine Berry have received 2021 Computing Innovation (CI) Fellowships, which help recent and soon-to-be Ph.D. graduates launch their careers in uncertain economic times.
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The Washington Post wrote about CS PhD student Lina Brixey’s efforts to use computer science to preserve the Choctaw language.
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Research by the SAIL lab was featured
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Every two weeks a language dies. Lina Brixey, a member of the Choctaw Nation and a USC Viterbi Ph.D. candidate, is determined hers will not be next.
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The SAIL Lab was mentioned for its collaboration with GDI to identify bias in movie scripts via development of Spellcheck for Bias
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USC researchers say this is a fallacy as their new study points to systemic bias on behalf of recruiters in salary negotiations.
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Dot.LA featured research that Yolanda Gil, Bistra Dilkina and Michael Pazzani will work on with the San Diego Supercomputer Center to fight wildfires
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After 10 weeks of competition, a USC team, including two computer science students, finished second to a trio from Columbia University in the final showdown.
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An opinion piece cited research by Aleksandra Korolova that concluded that Facebook served different ads to men and women
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Research by Barath Raghavan regarding limiting location data sharing was featured
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VentureBeat quoted Saty Raghavachary on scientists who claim to be able to train an AI system to play games without human interaction data.
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Microsoft’s X-Box Studios announced today that it will make a significant contribution to USC Games’ Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students.
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Research by Stefanos Nikolaidis and the ICARUS lab was featured.
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Shang-Hua Teng co-authored a paper on smoothed analysis of algorithms, which offers a more realistic comprehension of algorithmic performance.
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A research team at the University of Southern California has developed a new artificial intelligence system that uses human-like abilities to imagine never-before-seen objects.
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Researchers from NVIDIA and USC teamed up to make a simulation engine that could help autonomous robots with their cutting ability.
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Wired featured research by Stefanos Nikolaidis’a ICAROA lab that trains robots to build Ikea furniture.
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KNBC-TV featured research by Kristina Lerman that linked political discourse on Twitter to future COVID-19 outbreaks.
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Radhika Agrawal, a 2021 graduate with a degree in computer engineering and computer science, was interviewed for participating in the In-person ceremony.
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2021 CS graduate Sterling Rios was interviewed about a brand new video game he co-developed which was inspired by his indigenous Latino heritage.
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The City’s use of machine learning to automatically spot graffiti –a tool developed by IMSC–was featured .
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Los Angeles Business Journal interviewed Dean Yortsos regarding the new computer science building
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Stefanos Nikolaidis was featured on the CBS STEAM series for developing robotics for people who have disabilities
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The Wall Street Journal featured research by Aleksandra Korolova and John Heidemann, along with doctoral student, Basileal Imana, on how Facebook serves different job ads to men and women.