Los Angeles Times: The tsunami that battered Santa Cruz highlights the threat facing California’s coast
Patrick Lynett was quoted about the underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga which caused a tsunami to hit the CA coast
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Spaceflight Now: SpaceX preps for first of four ‘Transporter’ rideshare launches this year
Dodona, the 3rd satellite launched by SERC and USC students and faculty, was mentioned.
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Analytics India Magazine: Can You Express Your Feelings Through A Haptic Armband, Just Like A Hug?
Professor Culbertson’s research on virtual touch was featured.
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BBC: A New Space Age?
Anita Sengupta was interviewed about the future of space exploration
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Times Higher Ed: Online academic conferences showing wide benefit
Research conducted by the Armani Lab was featured showing how virtual conferences could ensure greater diversity, equity and inclusion for STEM researchers
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Asian News Service International: Research Team Makes Advance in Brain-Inspired Computing
Research by Han Wang’s lab was featured
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Psychology Today: New Synthetic AI Data May Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces
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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CIFellows 2021: CIFellowships Support Post-Doctoral Research
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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Washington Post: “We are still here”
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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HPCWIRE: 2021 HPCwire Awards – Readers’ & Editors’ Choice
A team led by Ewa Deelman received the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry)
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KABC: How safe is LA’s water?
Daniel McCurry, assistant professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was quoted on thresholds for water regulation
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AI in Healthcare: Behavioral health AI predicts effectiveness of talk therapy
Research by the SAIL lab was featured
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The Conversation: Matching tweets to ZIP codes can spotlight hot spots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Mayank Kejriwal explains his research regarding how geo-tags on Twitter can be a tool for identifying COVID hotspots
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ABC San Diego: Will expanding vaccine eligibility to kids 5-11 years old end the pandemic?
Ajitesh Srivastava was quoted as a member of a COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub that works on predictions about the spread of the pandemic
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Popular Science: The FCC is trying to crack down on those annoying spam texts
Paul Schmitt from ISI was quoted, indicating that robocalls are difficult to stop
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Dot.LA: Make Flying Simple
Najm Meshkati was interviewed about safety issues surrounding pilot-free helicopters
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dot.LA: How 3D Printing Could Help Tackle Homelessness in LA
dot.LA featured Berok Khoshnevis about the potential of 3D printing to tackle homelessness in LA.
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Global Engineering Deans Council: Dean Yortsos Elected to GEDC Executive Committee
Dean Yortsos will serve on this committee for a 3-year term
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USC Viterbi Magazine : ESCAPE VELOCITY PODCAST, EPISODE 5: “I AM NOT A UNICORN”
As a Black engineer in the 1980s, Darin Gray was looked upon as a rare, unique phenomenon. He quit his high-paying job to join K-12 education, seeking to change this.
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Los Angeles Business Journal: USC Viterbi Receives New $14M Gift From USC Trustee Epstein
The LA Business Journal noted that the recent $14 million gift to ISE will be used to hire seven researchers and upgrade the existing Salvatore Center.
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USC Viterbi Magazine : More Than Words – Lina Brixey Uses AI to Preserve the Choctaw Language
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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$25 million cumulative gift to transform industrial and systems engineering at USC
USC alumnus Daniel J. Epstein’s ongoing support will fund top research expertise in areas such as optimization, machine learning and AI, and harnessing data to solve society’s most urgent problems
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The Hollywood Reporter: Geena Davis Institute Expands Spellcheck for Bias Partnership with NBCU to Analyze Black and AAPI Representation
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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CNN: Why ending our dependence on fossil fuels is so challenging
Iraj Ershaghi was quoted in CNN on the challenges of transitioning from fossil fuels.
