Paul Bogdan joins team researching nanotechnology for NSF-funded center
The UMich-led Center for Complex Particle Systems (COMPASS), one of four new Science and Technology Centers, will look to nature for inspiration on particles.
Designing an Engine Ready for Hydrogen Combustion
The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting a major USC research initiative to advance the next stage of the clean energy revolution.
Origami-Inspired Strain Sensors for Stretchable Soft Robotics
USC researchers have developed an innovative solution to measure the motion of soft components in robotics.
ISI Ph.D. Students Connect Academic Learning with Summer Internships
ISI Ph.D. students spent their summers gaining practical experience and building professional networks at major tech companies.
A Smarter Approach to Answer Financial Questions
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers apply a case-based reasoning approach using relevant examples to help answer financial questions.
Causal Effects: Distinguishing Correlation from Causation
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers grapple with hidden variables in cause-and-effect studies to make better-informed decisions.
Building Better Models Starts With Reexamining the Metrics
USC computer scientists present a better way to measure the performance of generative AI models at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
Predicting the Future, Starting With Billiard Balls and Car Collisions
An ISI team identifies limitations in dynamics prediction and proposes a solution.
Maryam Shanechi Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist
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)
USC researchers will present nine papers at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), the leading international conference on machine learning
AI That Teaches Other AI
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
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
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
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
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
USC researchers have developed a novel AI technique to pull information from vast amounts of globally sourced text.
This Chatbot Sounds Familiar
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
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?
A panel for Los Angeles Tech Week discussed issues, opportunities and solutions surrounding generative AI in the cybersecurity world.
USC at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference
USC researchers will present four papers on topics including scalable robot data collection, simulating complex materials and transferring assembly tasks from simulation to reality.
USC Computer Science Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
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
Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute are developing ways to protect future hardware from the effects of space.
To the Ends of the Earth: Bringing the Bible to Languages Never Before Reached
Researchers at the Information Sciences Institute are developing technology that helps to streamline Bible translation.
Radical Signals: Looking for Signs of QAnon Radicalization on Twitter
A team of USC researchers propose a better way to model conspiracy theories on Twitter.
The Internet Has a Dark Side – Can We Teach Machines How To Identify It?
ISI researchers are developing technology that can detect logical fallacies in AI and classify hate speech in internet memes
Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test
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?
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
USC Viterbi researchers propose a novel framework to address challenges in computer vision.
Two Graduating Seniors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Both students are among the first cohort of the Ming Hsieh Institute Undergraduate Scholars program.
Powered by Algorithms – and Jazz
Graduating Ph.D. student Lillian Clark’s dissertation explores how to improve robot communication in remote environments. Her study of jazz helped her think on her feet.
Chris Birmingham, The Robot Whisperer
Inspired by his own health crisis, graduating computer science PhD student develops empathetic robots for therapy
Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?
Postdoc Scholar Emmanuel Johnson is part of a team receiving a $20M National Science Foundation grant to research AI-augmented learning.
AI for Good: ShowCAIS Event Highlights the Power of AI to Make a Difference
USC CAIS researchers from seven USC schools come together to solve the world’s most pressing problems using AI.
Two USC Computer Science Juniors Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Juniors Jordan Cahoon and Allen Chang were recognized for their research in, and beyond, computer science.
The Top Six GIFs from USC Robotics Open House 2023
At the event, the first in-person since 2019, five local L.A. schools were able to visit five different USC Viterbi robotics labs.
New Twitter, Now With More Hate
A USC computer scientist and his team have found that in less than six months, hate speech has significantly increased on Twitter.
Maja Matarić, Pioneer of “Robots That Care,” Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
USC Viterbi computer scientist joins luminaries such as Emmanuelle Charpentier and Lin-Manuel Miranda among 2023 members.
Sustainability in Space: Giving Old Satellites New Jobs
Researchers have completed Phase One of a U.S. Space Force project looking at the feasibility of updating software on orbiting satellites.
Her Body May Feel Weak, But This Trojan CEO is Fighting On for Brain Health
No June gloom: Alumna Samantha Scott’s start-up, JuneBrain, seeks to deliver the tele-health services she once desired for herself.
Using AI to Diagnose COPD In One Minute with 98.5% Accuracy
Paul Bogdan has developed a new and improved method to detect chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for early diagnosis and better treatment
Let’s Make a Deal: How Emotion-Aware AI Agents Help Negotiations
USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Kushal Chawla teaches AI how to negotiate with emotional awareness
The Quiet Revolution of AI on the Edge
AI is running on mobile phones, sensors, and home appliances thanks to the engineering innovations that make the most of the limited memory, reduced computational power, and little energy available in these devices.
Assad Oberai Honored as 2022 Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics
Assad Oberai applies computation and data-driven modelling to solve some of the toughest questions in science and engineering.
Autonomously Debugging Video Games
Computer science researchers create software that “learns” how to play a video game and fields it for glitches.
Robots Predict Human Intention for Faster Builds
In a new paper, USC computer science researchers “teach” robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks.
New Chip Design to Provide Greatest Precision in Memory to Date
Will enable powerful AI in your portable devices.
Smart(er) Cameras, A New Vision for the Future
USC Viterbi researchers partner with Samsung to develop energy saving, “self healing cameras.”
The Perfect Stitch: Training for Surgery Using AI
Computer scientists and clinicians are designing AI solutions to improve surgical training and create better patient outcomes.
Teaching Robots to Perform Tasks Like Humans
USC computer science study addresses key challenge of teaching machines to perform tasks in realistic environments
Computer Science PhD student Named Apple Scholar
Xisen Jin selected for his work in speech and natural language processing
USC Alumni Paved Path for ChatGPT
From “eureka moment” to deployment, USC Viterbi alumni played a key role in the creation of ChatGPT
Educating Armenia’s Best and Brightest
USC Viterbi collaborates with the National Polytechnic University of Armenia to offer an online program to select engineering students in Armenia
Making a Computer Observe Like a Human
USC ISI Research team combines multiple types of machine learning techniques to improve how a program can identify people and things
ChatGPT: USC Experts Break Down What You Need to Know
USC computer science experts share their perspectives on the meteoric rise of generative AI application ChatGPT
ISI Names Two New Fellows
Researchers Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil have received USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute’s highest honor.
USC Wins DARPA Map Feature Extraction Challenge
A joint team between USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute and the University of Minnesota won first place in part of the DARPA AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition
Operation Pangolin Launches to Save World’s Most Trafficked Wild Mammal
Bistra Dilkina joins a global team addressing pangolin poaching and trafficking
How Old Is Your Brain? Ask All The Hospitals
Researchers at USC’s Information Sciences Institute are proposing an artificial intelligence system that addresses several of the machine learning challenges in the medical space.
Robot Tutors Read Children’s Emotions As They Learn
Bored? Frustrated? Tired? New AI models could help robots read emotions and provide more personalized feedback.
Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a fairness enhancing algorithm that also keeps data secure.
Machines, Are They Smarter Than a Six-Year-Old?
Researchers at USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute are developing an algorithm that teaches machines to learn without human supervision.
USC Researchers Present 12 Papers at AAAI
USC researchers present 12 papers, and received a AAAI Classic Paper Award, at this leading venue for machine learning research
Using Robots to Fight Toxic Algae
USC computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to tackle harmful algae blooms using “smart” robots
Streamlining Learning Curves in the Workplace with Machine Learning
ISI’s KNIC program works to build AI that can help new employees kick start their new jobs more efficiently
Using Computer Generated Images to Create Unbiased Facial Recognition
Information Sciences Institute researchers use machine learning to invent an impartial way to recognize faces
Lights, Camera…Stereotypes? Film Characters’ Actions Reflect Gender Bias
A machine-learning framework developed by USC researchers reveals a pattern of stereotyped actions by male and female characters in films over 100-year period
USC Viterbi Researchers Named 2023 IEEE Fellows
USC Information Sciences Institute’s Carl Kesselman and Premkumar Natarajan, and Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari were elevated for their impactful research contributions.
“Choose Your Own Adventure” – Teaching Machines To Think Before They Speak
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers are programming models to communicate like humans do
USC at EMNLP ’22
USC researchers present 17 papers at EMNLP 2022, one of the world’s top natural language processing conferences.
The Potentially Adverse Impact of Twitter 2.0 on Scientific and Research Communication
Is key data going to disappear? The science community is bracing for possible consequences.
From Gadgets to Google: Jason Lin’s (’17) Journey to Make the World a Better Place
A USC computer science, business administration alumnus’ curiosity for algorithms and new environments pushes the frontiers of AI.
Rescuing Local Journalism, One AI Tool At A Time
A USC Information Sciences Institute Ph.D. student uses artificial intelligence to develop models that streamline the process of building news stories from start to finish
USC at NeurIPS 2022
USC researchers present 23 papers at this leading venue for machine learning research.
AI4Health: A Collab for the Future of Health Care
USC’s Information Sciences Institute launches the Center on AI Research for Health.
New Wheel-Legged Robots Navigate Terrain and Combat Obstacles Like Never Before
Research team engineers new wheel-legged robots with advancements in speed, rolling and leverage legged motions
A New Mathematical Model to Improve AI and Machine Learning
USC Researchers combine math, graphs, and one humble little plant
The Reproducibility Crisis in Science – These Researchers Have a Fix
A team from USC’s Information Sciences Institute has developed a novel method for using AI and knowledge graphs to assess the trustworthiness of scientific research.
USC at IROS ‘22
USC researchers present 15 wide-ranging papers at IROS 2022, one of the world’s largest robotics conferences.
At the Heidelberg Laureate Forum: A Firsthand Account
ISI researcher Emmanuel Johnson networked with Nobel Laureates and talked shop with Turing Award Winners.
Yolanda Gil Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Geoinformatics
The ISI researcher has brought artificial intelligence solutions to the geosciences.
Shanechi Receives the One Mind 2022 Rising Star Award
Maryam Shanechi was honored for her unique engineering approach to mental health.
What Will 2072 Look Like? Recorded Dreams and AI Friends!
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, ISIers take a guess at what the next 50 years will bring.
Student Roboticists’ Ideas Come to Life During Summer Research Program
Visiting students fast-tracked their robotics experience this summer at USC Viterbi’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
Eleven New Faculty Join USC’s Department of Computer Science
USC Viterbi’s Department of Computer Science welcomes a diverse group of new faculty members for the 2022/2023 academic year.
Artificial Intelligence in Space – USC’s Information Sciences Institute is on a Mission
Astronaut Danny Olivas joins ISI’s Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory (VIMAL) to look for ways to use AI in space.
USC ISI Research Shows a Promising Future for Animal-like Computer Vision
USC’s Information Sciences Institute researchers present a pathway for adapted biological retinae in machines so their vision can mimic animal eyes.
Haylee Mota Can Only See Light and Shadows. Yet She Sees So Much More.
USC Viterbi sophomore reimagines telepresence robots for the visually impaired
Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Science by Looking at Citations
USC’s Information Sciences Institute researchers used artificial intelligence to study gender disparities in science.
Good Vibrations: Detecting Emotions from Speech Patterns
Computer science student Shannon Brownlee’s startup uses software to detect emotions from speech patterns, which could help people with autism.
Baby Talk: Detecting Signs of Toxic Stress in Infants
A computer science doctoral student is working with a local children’s hospital to help clinicians detect signs of toxic stress in infants using artificial intelligence.
USC’s Information Sciences Institute Celebrates its Golden Anniversary
ISIers past and present gathered for champagne, speeches and science fiction.
Joint Appointments to Bring New Expertise in Machine Learning, Algorithm Design, and Network Design to the Epstein Department
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Bistra Dilkina and Vishal Gupta will take up joint appointments in Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC Viterbi.
A Prescription for the Future of Healthcare: AI, Databases and Video Games
As we celebrate USC’s Information Systems Institute’s 50th anniversary, we look back at the collaborations they’ve done in the medical field that have led to smarter, more efficient medical care.
From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI
USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has played a pivotal role in the development of most of the tech you use every day.
USC’s Information Sciences Institute Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation
From a three-man shop in 1972 to a 400+ person Institute, ISI continues to lead the way in computing research.
AI for Business: USC Marshall and USC Viterbi Announce Joint Undergraduate Degree
Degree will combine curricular expertise from the two schools for digital expertise in a rapidly changing world
Legged Robots to Aid with Planetary Research
Feifei Qian is the lead researcher for a NASA grant that could significantly aid planetary explorations.
Cracking the Code to Help Planet Earth
50 Years of ISI: How ISI has used computer science to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and aid paleoclimatologists in natural disaster detection and management
Lost in Translation at the Border
A USC computer science student is developing natural language processing tools to tackle the translator shortage for Indigenous asylum seekers.
8 Things You Didn’t Know Computer Scientists Did
At USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, research is more than just zeros and ones for its researchers, students and alumni.
“We are more demanding of AI than we are of ourselves”
USC Provost toured the Information Sciences Institute and met with inspired Ph.D students
Trojans Win Student Design Contest with Autonomous Robots that ‘Learn’
Team of USC Viterbi students places first in a design competition on edge computing
Busting Anti-Queer Bias in Text Prediction
New research at USC demonstrates how to train a popular language model to remove homophobic, anti-queer bias
Finding Bugs Faster Than Hackers
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers have developed a novel approach to quickly identify security vulnerabilities.
‘Bekey Changed My Life’
The robotics pioneer’s true gift is not with machines but with people
Stefanos Nikolaidis Receives Agilent Early Career Professor Award
Computer Science Assistant Professor Stefanos Nikolaidis earns prestigious honor for his contributions to collaborative robotics.
Machines can learn from fables
USC’s Information Sciences Institute uses short stories with moral implications to test human-like reasoning in AI
USC at ICML ‘22 Conference
USC researchers present 8 papers on notable topics including model explainability, game theory and multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Behnam Jafarpour is new Energi Simulation Chair in Subsurface Energy Data Science
New role will support essential research harnessing AI and data science to manage subsurface resources and energy transition.
Visual Misinformation Expert Wael AbdAlmageed Presents at Renaissance Weekend
Democracy, truth, and Artificial Intelligence collide at the prestigious event
USC at the NAACL ’22 Conference: Gender Bias in AI, a Tool to Study News Revisions, and Methods to Avoid Toxic Content
Notable research also includes work on mitigating anti-queer bias and improvements for e-commerce stores.
USC Presents Latest AI Findings at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference
USC partnered with other universities and companies such as Microsoft in research on image and video generation, facial recognition, and more.
USC ISI researchers track crypto pump-and-dump operations on social media
They monitored social media and showed attempts to inflate coins’ value are coordinated via conversations on various platforms.
How Does the Nervous System Develop?
New model demonstrates how the nervous system learns to control the body and has implications for medical treatments and developing agile robots
USC Viterbi Research to Streamline our Robot Delivery Future
A new study into optimized symbiotic vehicles for use in warehouses and for robot deliveries has been funded by Toyota’s University Research Program.
Bistra Dilkina Appointed as Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair
Dilkina was honored by Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg as the perfect “heroic engineer” at May 3 ceremony.
USC-Meta Center Brings Progress to AI Education and Research
The inaugural event introduced new initiatives and presented research to industry partners
Folding, Cutting and Bending Our Way into a More Adaptable Future
USC researchers create new models to predict how new metamaterials behave, opening the door for applications in soft robotics and even space
ISI researchers train artificial intelligence models to consider common-sense when generating responses
The goal: help those algorithms accurately predict a human’s next thought.
What If AI Could Create a Custom App for Small Businesses…In Only 30 Minutes?
Apsy, led by Ph.D. candidate Tooraj Helmi, uses AI to develop inexpensive, quality apps for startups
‘That’s Just Common Sense’. USC researchers find bias in up to 38.6% of ‘facts’ used by AI
A team of researchers from the USC Information Sciences Institute studied two AI databases to see if their data was fair. They found that it wasn’t.
USC Viterbi PhD Student Wins Meta Fellowship
The two-year fellowship will support the continued advancement of AI systems.
Haptics Device Creates Realistic Virtual Textures
USC Viterbi computer scientists have created a user-driven haptics method that can generate dead-ringers for real-world textures.
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
Trojan in the Sky
For USC Viterbi class of 2022 PhD Rishi Malhan, the future of robotics and sustainability lives in the skies.