Haptics Device Creates Realistic Virtual Textures
USC Viterbi computer scientists have created a user-driven haptics search that can generate dead-ringers for real-world textures.
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Students improve mobile app accessibility for people with disabilities
Two USC Viterbi Ph.D. students aim to solve the size-based accessibility gap in our mobile applications
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USC Games Expo 2022 Takes Participants on a Ten Hour, Multi-World Adventure
Over fifty student games debut at 6th annual expo event hosted on Twitch
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Where Does Vaccine Hesitancy Exist? USC AI Researchers Can Predict on the Zip Code-Level, in Real-Time
New software can outperform local and national survey data in gauging public opinions.
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“The Best Educated Class In Our History”
At the 2022 commencement ceremony, undergraduates shared laughter, tears and hugs as they embark on a new journey
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“The World Impatiently Waits For You”: 1100 USC Viterbi Master’s Students Graduate
First in-person, satellite ceremonies in two years feature four-star general and former CEO of Yahoo and Verizon Media as speakers
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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USC ISI works with D-Wave to house one of the First U.S-Based Advantage Quantum Computer
New D-Wave Advantage system, housed at the University of Southern California-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, brings quantum system and hybrid solver access to business and research clients wanting a US-based solution.
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USC Computer Science: Class of 2022
Meet USC Viterbi’s Department of Computer Science graduating class of 2022!
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Doug Peacock Scholarship Opens New Doors for Engineering Students
TransDigm’s Doug Peacock Scholarship Fund changes the lives of hardworking students from underrepresented backgrounds at USC Viterbi
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An Attentive Listener
Senior Bryan Huang feels a moral imperative to help those in need, whether serving as president of USC Code the Change or through social entrepreneurship
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Building Better AR and VR
Burgeoning startup Playbook won this year’s MEPC with a vision of simplifying the development of augmented and virtual reality
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‘Another 10 Million Years of Living’: USC Viterbi Start-Up is the No. 1 Virtual Cardiac Rehab Program in the U.S.
Moving Analytics, cofounded by three USC Viterbi alumni, seeks to be in all 50 states by the end of 2023
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USC at ICLR 2022: learning how to learn, decision making in complex environments, better forecasting models
USC researchers advance the state-of-the-art in AI and deep learning at top international conference.
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ISE and CS Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships for Research to Combat Homelessness
Bill (Yongpeng) Tang and Nathan Justin are developing tools to improve housing resource allocation to the homeless. They have recently been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships.
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ISI collaborates in a $10 million NSF-funded initiative on cyberinfrastructure
The goal is to establish a suite of cyberinfrastructure coordination services to support researchers from all areas of science, engineering research and education.
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USC Viterbi-Led Team Wins $15 Million NSF Expeditions in Computing Award, One of Only Two Announced This Year
Massoud Pedram will be PI for multi-university DISCoVER team focused on green computing, superconductor electronics
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I Know What You Did on Venmo
A team led by USC Viterbi researchers has discovered millions of “privacy leaks” on the mobile social payments app
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Shri Narayanan Named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Prolific researcher is one of only two honored nationally for work in computer science
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ISI talented early career researchers recognized again by NSF
The NSF CRII program helps outstanding researchers launch their research, consistently recognizing USC’s Information Sciences Institute junior talents.
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A student’s mission to make games accessible to everyone
David Barrett (’22) is adapting current games and creating new ones to meet a wide range of disability needs
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Making Urban Environments Sustainable with AI
Sarah Cooney, senior PhD candidate, creates a software system to allow everyday citizens to create designs for urban projects using AI.
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USC Students Win the Coveted IBM App Building Competition
Three-member team placed first out of 1,700 other students in IBM’S Call for Code Education Innovation Case Competition
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Supporting Girls in Space: USC Viterbi Program Returns for Summer 2022
With renewed support, Project Payload returns to offer underrepresented girls in STEM a hands-on experience in aerospace engineering and computer science
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8 USC Viterbi Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty has now been received by 13 USC Viterbi faculty over the past two years
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New App Security Tool Protects Against Attacks
USC researchers have developed an app database security tool that can help protect against “injection attacks,” one of the top 10 app security risks for developers.
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Using Machine Learning to Create Materials that Enable Energy-Efficient Electronics
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a neural network that can model a high-performing new material at a scale never-before seen.
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Could distributive classrooms increase diversity in AI?
Emmanuel Johnson (’21) receives CRA Computing Innovation Fellows award for post-doctoral research on collaboration in a distance-learning world.
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USC Senior Named One of Four Top Undergraduate Computer Science Researchers in North America
The prestigious award honors Leena Mathur for her excellence and outstanding research potential in computer science.
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How to Get a Diagnosis Without Setting Foot in a Doctor’s Office? Try AI and Wearables
USC Viterbi leads $1.2 million, multi-school effort to upgrade wearable technology for next stage of healthcare
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USC at the AAAI ’22 conference: 3D objects recognition, teaching robots to think on their own, finding information in any languages
New models help information detection in many languages and 3-D objects recognition, as well as robots training.
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Michael Pazzani, pioneer in machine learning, joins ISI to strengthen its AI strategy
His research on explanation can’t always be explained to a ten year old, but his contribution to the machine learning field has led to very concrete innovations, from media personalization to salary predictions for athletes.
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USC Launches New Center for Autonomy and AI
The new center will bring together researchers and industry leaders to fuel innovation and provide hands-on learning opportunities for students.
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“Life Is Matter Plus Algorithms”
Annual USC Viterbi-Axilor Series Inspires Innovators and Entrepreneurs
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Francisco Valero-Cuevas Selected As One of 12 U.S. Scientists To Advise on Issues of Medical Rehab and Disabilities
His four year term with the NIH’s Advisory Board On Medical Rehabilitation Research began in July 2021.
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Measuring Media Polarization
Researchers in USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) develop a natural language processing tool that can quickly detect polarized topics from partisan news sources.
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A New Way to Store Sustainable Energy: ‘Information Batteries’
Researchers propose a new way to deal with the intermittency of wind and solar energy sources – and store green energy cheaply and efficiently.
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Researchers develop highly accurate modeling tool to predict Covid-19 risk
Researchers at USC have combined location density with real-world mobility data to predict the risk of infection from Covid-19 at specific locations with unprecedented accuracy.
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Top Five in the Nation for 10 Consecutive Years: USC Viterbi’s Online Programs in Engineering, Computer Science
The U.S News & World Report ranks DEN@Viterbi as consistently among the best online graduate degree programs in the nation
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USC Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
Fish that glow; a tailor-made microscope; a new way to catalog science. After six years, researchers produce the first snapshots of memory in a living animal.
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Kicking Off the 2021-2022 MEPC
The latest edition of the 12-year-old Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition promises to guide aspiring student entrepreneurs through the process of transforming an innovative idea into a viable business.
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Machine Communicates Emotion with Nearly 80% Accuracy of Human Touch
New Haptic Device Can Communicate Attention, Gratitude, Happiness, Calming, Sadness, or Love
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Esports: The Future of Gaming
Computer science major, Youngju Shin, a member of the executive board for SC Esports, believes video games can bring people together.
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USC’s Cyrus Shahabi, Andrea Armani, and Shri Narayan Elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
The trio joins a distinguished class of 175 new inductees who “demonstrate a prolific spirit of innovation”
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USC Researchers Present 30 Papers at NeurIPS 2021
Paper topics include machine learning, deep learning, neural networks and optimization.
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“Deepfaking the Mind” Could Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces for People with Disabilities
Synthetic neurological data created using generative adversarial networks could speed up training of brain-computer interfaces, new study finds.
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AI Can Tell You If a Therapy Session Will Be Effective
New tool automates evaluations of cognitive behavioral therapy
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USC Researchers Present 30 Papers at EMNLP 2021
Goals include building fairer commonsense models by reducing bias, detecting polarizing topics to mitigate conflict, and achieving smooth human-AI communication.
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USC and UCLA Students Compete in Philanthropic Video Game Tournament
Proceeds will go to the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students and UCLA Bruin’s Black Bruin Resource Center.
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USC Viterbi Students Develop AI-based Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Tool
A student team developed machine learning algorithms that help predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease using speech.
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Randy Hill’s Army Service Ended in 1984. He Still Serves Veterans — With AI, Graphics and VR
Professor Hill reflects on service, storytelling and his favorite virtual human to fight PTSD
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How AI Could Help Screen for Autism in Children
An interdisciplinary team led by USC computer science researchers is creating a faster, more reliable and more accessible system to help clinicians screen children for developmental disorders such as autism and ADHD.
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From the USC Viterbi Magazine: More Than Words
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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If You Can’t See Inside a Cell, Let the Math Look For You!
Researchers at USC and beyond develop a new structure for modeling the inner functions of a cell
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AI To Fight Wildfires
USC to Co-Lead an NSF-Funded Project for Controlled Burns and Fire Mitigation
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Bringing Reinforcement Learning to a Dynamic World: USC Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award
The paper outlines a simple approach that solves a complex problem in reinforcement learning (RL): applying RL algorithms to non-stationary environments.
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Single Cell Intelligence: Alumni Startup Seeks To ID Cells That Could Transform Medicine
Co-founded by USC Viterbi alumnus Mahyar Salek, ’11, Deepcell uses AI and imaging to isolate unique cells in areas ranging from cancer to prenatal testing.
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Is it A Horror Film or a Rom-Com? AI Can Predict Based Solely on Music.
USC Viterbi Professor Shrikanth Narayanan and his research group examined the role of music in film through a computational lens to determine how it affects the audience’s perception of genre
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SHINE 2021: 58 High School Students Actively Contribute To USC Viterbi Research
“A sense of confidence, exposure and knowledge:” Students, family, and faculty celebrate the conclusion of this summer’s session of SHINE with annual poster session
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Is Your Mobile Provider Tracking Your Location? This New Technology Could Stop It.
For the first time, researchers have found a way to protect phone users’ identity and location, without compromising connectivity.
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ISI Researchers Devise Efficient and Comprehensive Strategy to Decrypt Ciphers
ISI researchers Jonathan May and Nada Aldarrab devise a new system to improve the accuracy and efficiency of deciphering hidden messages.
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USC Collaborates in $20M NSF Institute to Push New Frontiers in AI and Optimization
The NSF Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Advances in Optimization will fuse AI and mathematics to tackle tough challenges, such as food security, supply chain operations and hardware design.
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Undergraduate Researchers Impress Viterbi Community With CURVE Symposium Posters
Over 100 USC Viterbi undergraduates present their year-long research projects virtually at the 2021 Viterbi Research Symposium
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New Simulator Helps Robots Sharpen Their Cutting Skills
A simulation engine developed by USC and NVIDIA researchers predicts the forces acting on a knife as it cuts through common foods, such as fruit and vegetables
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Computer Science Professor Wins ‘Test of Time’ Award for Influential Paper
Shang-Hua Teng’s groundbreaking paper on smoothed analysis of algorithms helped explain a long-debated phenomenon: why do some algorithms work better in practice than in theory?
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On the Cutting Edge: USC at the Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference
USC research focuses on making safe, realistic and efficient robotic systems at the Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference, 2021.
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USC+Amazon Center Announces its Selected Projects for 2021-2022
The new center will support five research initiatives from across USC Viterbi.
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USC researchers enable AI to use its “imagination.”
A team of researchers at USC is helping AI imagine the unseen, a technique that could also lead to fairer AI, new medicines and increased autonomous vehicle safety.
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9 Questions With Data Scientist and Duet CTO Lucas Hu
A triangle of giving: USC Viterbi alumnus Lucas Hu connects donors to global refugees and local stores
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Expert Q&A: Does social media misinformation cause vaccine hesitancy?
In a new analysis, USC computer science researchers found a large anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy community on Twitter.
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Need help building IKEA furniture? This robot learns your preferences and lends a hand.
Researchers at USC created an algorithm that allows machines to learn from humans and predict their next move.
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Improving Human-Computer Conversations From Camp Site Negotiations
Researchers from ICT and ISI devise CaSiNo, a scenario-based dataset for teaching negotiation.
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From the Viterbi Magazine: A New Home for CS at SC
Bright, sustainable and modern—first look at new landmark building reveals a fitting home for computer science at USC.
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From the USC Viterbi Magazine: Letting Robots Guide the Learning Experience
For years, Maja Matarić has been bringing robots into the world of people. Now she wants to bring people into the world of robots.
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Find Your Genetic Relatives Quickly and Accurately with USC ISI’s iLASH Algorithm
ISI researcher and PhD student utilize iLASH to study genetic causes of diseases and the genetic structure of populations.
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Viterbi K-12 STEM Outreach: From Molecular Modeling to Addressing Social Problems Using AI to Fighting Hate Speech
Even in the midst of the pandemic, USC Viterbi professors continued to prioritize K-12 outreach, engaging in projects aimed to foster learning and incite passion for science and engineering
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From the Viterbi Magazine: New York Times Data Scientist Turned USC Computer Science Student
From data scientist at the New York Times to computer science Ph.D. at USC, Alexander Spangher is developing tools that help reporters do their jobs — and find the truth.
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The Trojan “Angel” of Palo Alto
Preetish Nijhawan, former Akamai cofounder, serves as mentor to the next generation of founders through his firm that invests in early-stage technology startups
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From the USC Viterbi Magazine: Fighting Fire with… Bananas?
Based on computer models, Barath Raghavan says the humble banana could prevent wildfire spread—and turn a tidy profit for local communities
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ISI’s Jay Pujara Receives Google Grants for Teaching AI to Navigate Context and Uncertainty
ISI researcher Jay Pujara and team receive grants from Google for their award-winning project on creating probabilistic models for AI systems.
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From the Viterbi Magazine: Q & A with Cyrus Shahabi
Cyrus Shahabi, chair of USC Viterbi’s Department of Computer Science, on what the new Ginsburg building means for collaboration.
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From the Viterbi Magazine: A Life Less Ordinary
Computer science plays a role just about everything in our lives, from the cars we drive to the movies we watch and the many ways we interact with each other every day. In this timeline, we follow one “human of the future” through childhood, adulthood and into old age via critical moments that could be touched by technology developed at USC Viterbi.
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“Cloudy With a Chance of Misbehavior”: Researching Malicious Traffic originating from Cloud Machines
ISI researcher Jelena Mirkovic and students team up to research cloud providers and the “misbehavior” that occurs on these platforms.
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Commencement 2021: Engineering Grads Take Center Stage at L.A. Coliseum For First Time in 71 Years
In a return to in-person graduation, the Class of 2020 and 2021 celebrate “passage to a post-COVID new world”
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Game On – 2021 USC Games Expo celebrated the work of students in the renowned USC Games Program
2021 USC Games Expo celebrated the work of students in the renowned USC Games Program
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Q&A with Jessica Au, CS Graduating Student and Co-Founder of Good2Go
Jessica Au served as president of USC student group Code the Change and co-founded Good2Go, a non-profit that utilizes volunteer drivers to bridge the gap between food pantries and food-insecure individuals.
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Protecting Moving Targets
Addressing the challenge of species conservation in an era of climate change
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Hanna Endrias: Computer Science Graduating Student Q&A
Computer science senior Hanna Endrias took dance classes, ranging from ballet to hip hop, and served as vice president of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) USC Chapter.
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Computer Science Senior Creates Tech to Help Students with Visual Impairments Learn to Code
Samuel Alex Atcheson developed a 3D-printed system to teach coding syntax to people with visual impairments using the sense of touch
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Master’s Student Uses Health Data Science to Help Save Lives
From pre-med to data scientist, Lisa Meng is using AI and machine learning to try to improve efficiency and accuracy in diagnosing patients.
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CS Grad Draws From His LatinX Heritage to Reimagine Ancient Sport in New Video Game
Inspired by ancient Mesoamerican art and culture, Sterling Rios C.S. ’21, takes a ballgame to its roots with spectacle
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Five USC Viterbi Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
Research spans from self driving cars, virtual touch, AI for good, teaching machines commonsense and electromagnetic device design.
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“A Space To Invent the Future.” Trojans Celebrate Groundbreaking of New Computer Science Building
Groundbreaking ceremony kicks off construction of a significant milestone in USC’s history: a new home for computer science, focused on improving and benefiting society.
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USC Games Establishes the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund, Supporting Black and Indigenous Students in Game Design and Engineering
Industry Leader Take-Two Interactive Helps to Found and Fund Endowment Supporting Racial Equity and Inclusion in Gaming and Tech for the #1 Game Design Program in North America
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A Week of Robotics at USC Viterbi
Robotics experts and USC community partners come together for week long talks and interactive sessions about cutting-edge robotics research and topics, hosted by USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center
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USC Researchers Develop Technology to Detect Internet Outages Around the World
Researchers at the ANT Lab use Trinocular to monitor internet outages in Myanmar and beyond.
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Unearthing Gender Bias in Social Media Job Ads
USC Ph.D. student Basileal Imana is fighting gender bias in high-stakes applications, such as job advertising on social media.
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Jay Pujara and Craig Knoblock win JP Morgan Award for their work on Hybrid Knowledge Graphs
Their work aims to help businesses through hybrid knowledge graphs.
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USC Games Announces Its Virtual Showcase, Streaming Live May 15th
Industry Icon Geoff Keighley to host a showcase of 70 student-made games, with support from Jam City
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Using AI to Decode Unique Cultures
USC ISI researchers awarded $2.2 million grant to create a novel machine learning solution for decoding cultures and informing decision making