Discovery Channel: Tribute to Alumnus Grant Imahara
Discovery Channel pays tribute to Mythbusters host and EE alumnus Grant Imahara
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Indian Express: “The world will impatiently need you”
Indian Express featured excerpts from a letter written by Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos to international students in the Viterbi community and worldwide.
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USC News: Coronavirus Vaccines Are Coming, But When Will They Arrive?
Humanity has never seen a global research collaboration on this scale — but USC experts note that the vaccine development and approval process remains a long and laborious one.
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USC News: Research Team Will Help Los Angeles Reduce Bias and Disparity in Homelessness Services
A $1.5 million grant will allow researchers with the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society to investigate ways to reduce racial bias in the housing system.
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SpaceX Makes History & Along With It, Continues the Trojans’ Legacy in Space
Contributions of USC Viterbi students, researchers and alumni to the groundbreaking next chapter of space travel
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USC Viterbi magazine: SpaceX Made History Today. Meet Some of the Trojan Engineers Behind That History.
USC Viterbi magazine article: SpaceX “employs more engineers from USC Viterbi than from any other school.”
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Crosstown: The day the traffic died in Los Angeles
Researchers at USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), including Cyrus Shahabi, IMSC director and computer science professor, worked in partnership with Crosstown, a nonprofit news organization, to examine vehicle volume data across Los Angeles during the COVID-19 shutdown.
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CBS News: Today’s Space Launch: USC Professor Garrett Reisman Live on CBS
USC Viterbi Professor Garrett Reisman, a former NASA Astronaut and former director of SpaceX Space Operations, is covering today’s historic space launch live with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell. Tune in at 1pm PST.
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Adobe Spark: AthenaHacks 2020
AthenaHacks was founded in 2016 by a group of USC seniors, led by computer science student Kelly Lampotang, with the idea of creating a friendly hackathon event to inspire more women coders and engineers to work together.
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KPCC : Digital Contract Tracing to Contain the Coronavirus
As more places across California start to reopen, contact tracing is set to play a crucial role in containing the spread of the coronavirus. Cyrus Shahabi, USC computer science professor, discusses how much of the work could be done through digital contact tracing and how it would work. (Listen ~00:19).
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Mark Humayun wins IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology
Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, director of the USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics and co-director, was awarded the 2020 Medal for Innovations
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Viterbi magazine: A Day in the Life
A day in the life of the SWE President, Gabrielle van der Velde-Kraft
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USC ECE Department Blog: Honoring My Father’s Memory: The Joy of Electrical Engineering
Growing up, my dad always let me pursue my constantly changing interests – everything from English to history, to art and politics. He always told me that studying engineering would give me a good basis to do whatever it was I desired in the future.
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The World According to Namita
Namita Prakash is computer science major with a screenwriter minor
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Models, Mentors and Mentees
Arynn Gallegos, USC SHPE President is both mentee and mentor
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A 12-year Odyssey from Fine Arts to Electrical Engineering
Randi Burley’s path to engineering has been anything but traditional.
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New Scientist: AI can distinguish between bots and humans based on twitter activity
Research by Emilio Ferrara on the behavior of bots on twitter was featured
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KPCC: Teaching College from Home
Andrea Armani was interviewed about online teaching, webinars and ppe efforts at USC
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Spectrum News: USC Professor Uses 3D Printers to Create Face Shields for Essential Workers
Andrea Armani was interviewed about her and colleagues’ efforts to collaborate with industry and produce PPE
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Washington Post: Your smartphone as a weapon against Coronavirus
Cyrus Shahabi was interviewed about a contact tracing app his team is working on to fight the spread of COVID19
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Forbes: In Coronavirus Fight, Robots Report For Disinfection Duty
SK Gupta was interviewed about the ADAMMS-UV robot that researchers at CAM developed to disinfect hard-to-reach spaces
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Hindu Business Line: Developing vaccines will be much faster in future with exascale supercomputers
Priya Vashishta was interviewed about his work, the state of supercomputers and how supercomputers can expedite vaccines
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Fast Company: UVC Light and COVID19
Andrea Armani was interviewed on whether UVC light could fight COVID19
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Center for Cyber-Physical Systems: CCI Virtual Mini-Workshop on Digital Technologies for COVID-19
USC Researchers and faculty presented on how digital technologies– mobile applications, internet of things, data science, AI, and machine learning can play a role in understanding, monitoring and combatting COVID-19.
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