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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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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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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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Researchers at the ANT Lab use Trinocular to monitor internet outages in Myanmar and beyond.
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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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Their work aims to help businesses through hybrid knowledge graphs.
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Industry Icon Geoff Keighley to host a showcase of 70 student-made games, with support from Jam City
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USC ISI researchers awarded $2.2 million grant to create a novel machine learning solution for decoding cultures and informing decision making
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Gavan Wilhite, ’10 B.S. computer science, created the first social platform for virtual reality, now he’s building the connective tissues in 3-D printed organs
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Paul Chiou, a USC Viterbi Ph.D. student, seeks to reimagine technology for people with disabilities, sparked by a paralyzing car accident and a passion for computing.
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Recent XPRIZE finalist Tapestry, led by Manoj Gopalkrishnan, ’08, could save time, money and lives by testing hundreds of samples at once
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5th annual AthenaHacks hackathon enables over 400 women and non-binary students to create apps, games, and more
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Ph.D. students conquer the railways at 2020 Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Flatland Challenge
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Maja Matarić has been selected among 30 of the nation’s top computer scientists.
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USC ISI researchers show that human-AI collaborators may be best at predicting the future. But can they get along?
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The USC AI Futures Symposium featured a prolific group of researchers and covered a wide range of AI topics
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Researchers Show How Social Component of Moral Decision-making Can Influence Programming of Autonomous Vehicles and Other Technologies
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The USC team was among 48 teams from 17 countries chosen to advance to the second and final phase of the competition.
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Devin Martin, an undergraduate student in computer science, dreamed about working for NASA since he was a child. Last summer, that dream came true.
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Chemotherapy is a powerful tool in the fight against cancer, but so is data, according to a new study led by USC computer science researchers.
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Notable research includes work on algorithmic fairness for pressing social issues and resource allocation in presidential campaigns.
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Association for Computing Machinery honors Sven Koenig, Maja Mataric and Mike Zyda for work that underpins contemporary computing.
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DEN@Viterbi, launched nearly 50 years ago, consistently among the best, per U.S. News & World Report
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Jon May and his team teach AI how to make decisions when encountering new environments through text-based video games.
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USC Viterbi student club gives students confidence, networking opportunities, mentors and even job connections.
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USC ISI’s Yolanda Gil and Craig Knoblock elevated to IEEE Fellows for prolific research contributions
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USC Viterbi partners with Google and Code.org to introduce computer science to K-12 students and shine a light on how computer science can serve as a catalyst for social justice.
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Roboticist and first-year student collaborate on social-distanced tech solution
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Ben Ma wins prestigious scholarship for all-expenses paid master’s program in China
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From robots that help with everyday tasks, move objects in complex environments, and learn “on the job,” USC computer scientists presented their research at 4th Conference on Robotic Learning.
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Topics include privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning, transparency in state-of-the-art prediction models and data-driven algorithm design for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems.
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The more sensitive measurement tools are, the more information physicists can extract from quantum particles, such as photons.
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Gil and Golubchik are among six USC faculty members selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020.
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USC’s Space and Engineering Research Center looks to the star-shaped sea creature for their groundbreaking soft robotics project.
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With 22 papers accepted to this year’s EMNLP conference, USC computer science continues to assert its place as a leader in natural language processing community.
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The Microsoft grant will help develop knowledge graphs for a COVID-19 data infrastructure.
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USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.
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USC Viterbi researchers are using AI as a tool identify violent, substance-abuse and sexual content in movie scripts before a single scene is shot
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Despite advances in natural language processing, AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, finds a new USC study.
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Cyrus Shahabi’s digital contact tracing goes beyond mobile phones, reducing false positives.
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HackSC, SHPE, NSBE, and Girls in Tech host USC’s first ever Diversity & Inclusion Hackathon
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Employs Artificial Intelligence to Develop News “Nutrition Label”
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Yan Liu shares how machine learning and AI could help combat COVID-19 by identifying and mitigating misinformation on social media.
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USC leads national effort to safeguard national elections from cyber attacks
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Jasmine Berry is grappling with the big questions: What does it mean to be self-aware and what would it take for a robot to satisfy those criteria?
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The fourth lecture in the 10-part series focuses on how automation can help enhance human productivity in industries such as manufacturing while keeping them safe during the global pandemic.
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New PhD graduate Alana Shine researches graph theory, which can help create more accurate models of disease spread.
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USC ISI scientists research urgency detection in short crisis situations through social media
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The USC Viterbi associate professor wants to expand the footprint of the center, which brings together AI and social work to find solutions to major societal problems.
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Series of studies reveal conditions under which humans more likely to act deceptively through virtual intermediaries
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The 4th annual Sustain-A-Thon saw 57 students propose solutions for making the planet more livable and sustainable.
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As AI makes its way into more areas of our lives, rooting out implicit bias is more crucial than ever, says USC computer science student Aida Mostafazadeh Davani.
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Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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Researchers at USC ISI prepare for future emergencies during COVID 19 pandemic.
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After 35 years of AI research, Gil’s is promoted to a new role where she will lead AI and data science initiatives at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Answer Questions About Their Unique Modeling Tool and Share Advice for Future Forecasters.
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Founded in 2014, the organization aims to help nonprofit organizations in the LA area develop software projects.
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2020 Networking Systems Award from SIGCOMM goes to networking system developed in part by USC ISI team
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As the student branch of the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society, CAIS++ members work to promote the development of AI applications for social good.
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Over 100 students have been aided by USC Viterbi’s Emergency Relief Fund; Ming Hsieh, alumnus and university trustee, offers an additional $50K match to donors
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USC’s Information Sciences Institute receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to make AI more adaptable.
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New computer science alumna Shreya Gupta hopes to bring humanity to deep learning by developing empathetic robots that can attune to your emotions.
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USC students and researchers at ISI SERC are building a lunar landing flight vehicle as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
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Nenad Medvidović receives most influential paper award at SEAMS 2020 for work on privacy and cloud-based systems.
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USC students look to technology in an effort bridge the educational losses suffered by people displaced by war.
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When it comes to accurately flagging hate speech on social media, context matters, says a new USC study aimed at reducing errors that could amplify racial bias.
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Scientists from USC ISI use improv dialogue to build a witty, engaging chatbot
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Welcome to USC’s Haptics Robotic and Virtual Interaction Lab, where Heather Culbertson and her students explore how humans interact with the world, robots and technology through touch.
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Namita Prakash, a recent computer science graduate who minored in screenwriting, blended her passions for coding and creative writing at USC—and landed a job at Microsoft after graduation.
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QCC will upgrade to D-Wave’s forthcoming Advantage™ system with more than 5000 qubits
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Dr. Knoblock will continue leading ISI and serving as USC Viterbi’s Vice Dean of Engineering
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A new USC Viterbi study shows that just 30 days with an in-home robot could help children with autism improve not only math skills, but also social interaction.
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Academy Award winner and activist Geena Davis is working with USC Viterbi researchers to help build a more inclusive world, starting with the silver screen.
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Awards span research from machine learning to wastewater reuse to fluid dynamics and to self-healing materials.
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Motivated to engineer a better world for all humanity, USC Viterbi celebrates graduates who have pursued academic excellence and impacted their communities.
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Two Electrical and Computer Engineers Win ONR Grant on Science of AI to Bring Systems and AI Closer Together
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After graduation, Melissa Wen will join Google in Sunnyvale, CA, while completing her master’s online.
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Originally from Bogota in Colombia, dad of three Alexander Reyes transferred to USC after earning an associate degree from community college and several years working in the IT field.
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From human-machine interaction to endangered language preservation, Leena Mathur’s research is putting the human into artificial intelligence
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The USC Viterbi-led team aims to improve the diets and health of low-income, urban residents in unique contest pairing engineering and societal challenges
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The largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world is set for mid-May.
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In order to stop the pandemic in its tracks, we need a nuanced risk assessment that takes many factors into consideration, including people’s mobility patterns, says Cyrus Shahabi.
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USC researchers will present work virtually at top AI conference, April 25-30.
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Computer science and business administration student MacKenzie McClung is rounding up much-needed protective equipment for healthcare workers in Florida.
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Yigal Arens is recognized for his significant contributions to AI research and leadership at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
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USC researchers adapt a customizable robot to autonomously perform disinfection tasks in both small and large spaces.
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By anonymously tracking coronavirus spread through contact tracing, smartphone technology could help people get back to their daily lives—while keeping a close eye on the resurgence of the virus.
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The student-produced videogame found its footing through the USC Games program.
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Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute evaluate the chatbots that, increasingly, answer the world’s questions.
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By analyzing millions of tweets, USC computer science researchers are investigating how false information about the coronavirus spreads on social media.
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Dataset to track public sentiment and help researchers understand the social dimensions of the pandemic
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Personal hygiene is important to reduce the spread of COVID-19, but don’t skimp on your cyber hygiene.
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Climate change is making it harder for weather scientists to make predictions. DyNamo helps forecast severe weather events in real-time.
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Annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report also keep USC Viterbi among the top five private engineering schools
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USC Viterbi Professors Yolanda Gil, president of AAAI, and Fei Sha, AAAI-20 conference program co-chair, share their thoughts following this year’s event.
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From classically trained concert violinist to all-star computer science student at USC, Jillian Khoo is determined to use her technical skills to code the change.
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USC researchers developed personalized learning robots for children with autism and studied whether the robots could autonomously gauge the child’s engagement in long-term, in-home therapeutic interventions.
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Incoming freshman Dresden Kershaw reflects on the uphill journey that has brought him to USC Viterbi.
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AI affects your credit scores and loans, but it’s not immune to bias. USC researchers are helping it forget.
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USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute pairs human “forecasters” with AI to develop better predictive technology