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.
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WIRED: The Grid Isn’t Ready for the Renewable Revolution
Wired featured Kelly Sanders’ research on ‘precooling’ to optimize energy usage.
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WIRED: Heat is Baking Cities
George Ban-Weiss spoke to Wired about methods to cool down cities
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USC News: Are women worse than men at salary negotiation?
USC researchers say this is a fallacy as their new study points to systemic bias on behalf of recruiters in salary negotiations.
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Dot LA: Researchers have begun to study the use of AI to help firefighters strategize controlled burns
Dot.LA featured research that Yolanda Gil, Bistra Dilkina and Michael Pazzani will work on with the San Diego Supercomputer Center to fight wildfires
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NASA JPL: On the Fast Track to Career in STEM
ASTE Master’s student Natalie Deo who is interning with the JPL team developing the Europa Clipper spacecraft, was featured.
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Dot.LA: Snafu Records Raises $6 Million to Replace Record Executives with AI
Shri Narayanan speaks to Dot.LA about the potential for AI to help democratize the music industry.
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KUTV: COVID-19 cases in Utah projected to decline over next few weeks
Ajitesh Srivastava is referenced as having created one of the COVID-19 forecasting models monitored by the CDC
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CBS News: SpaceX Launches the First All-Civilian Space Crew
CBS News featured Garrett Reisman SpaceX’s launch of the first all-civilian space crew on a three-day mission.
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CNBC: The FCC is trying to stop robocalls, but the scammers won’t disappear
CNBC quoted Paul Schmitt on the challenges of preventing robocalls.
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Gizmodo: Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?
Gizmodo quoted Dong Song regarding the possibility that brain-machine interface technology could directly write information on the brain.