Understanding Humans, Changing Lives: 25 Years of USC SAIL Lab
25 years, 1,000+ papers, 20+ Patents and Beyond – Pioneering Human-centered Technologies and Building a Multigenerational Research Family
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From Alzheimer’s to PTSD: How a USC Scientist Hopes AI Can Unlock – and One Day Restore – Human Memory
Using AI paired with brain-machine interfaces, Dong Song wants to study how memories form in real life, and eventually help those who have lost the ability to make them.
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ISI Achieves Critical Cybersecurity Certification, Positioning Institute at Forefront of Defense Research
Multi-year effort positions ISI among a small number of research institutes certified to handle sensitive government data, ensuring continued access to defense contracts and national security research
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Planes, Trains and Air Lanes: The LA28 Transportation Blueprint
In a panel event hosted by the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi, transportation leaders discuss how Los Angeles will move millions during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games – without building an entirely new network.
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Game Day: Athletes, Media and the LA28 Stage
As part of The Games Week at USC, a panel convened by USC Viterbi’s Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and USC Annenberg explored how storytelling, technology and access will shape how the world perceives the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Powering LA28: Energy, Infrastructure & the Future of Los Angeles
During The Games Week at USC, leaders from LADWP, Southern California Edison, LA28 and the U.S. Green Building Council outlined how Los Angeles plans to supply reliable, low-carbon power and water to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Imagine Staging Seven Super Bowls per Day: Welcome to LA28
Hosted by the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi, the first panel of The Games Week laid out in concrete terms what LA28 will require – and what it’s designed to leave behind.
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A USC Doctoral Student Solves a Longstanding Problem in Quantum Cryptography
Miryam Huang is the first USC student to win the prestigious Machtey Award, recognized for solving a cryptographic problem first posed in 1976 and later asked as an open question in the quantum setting, with important implications for quantum cryptography.
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Your Company Could be Buying the Wrong Information
A new award-winning paper argues that a decades-old standard for measuring the value of information yields inconsistent results and that companies, hospitals, and government agencies may be systematically misprioritizing how they gather data.
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Inge Marcus Survived World War II and an Orphaned Childhood. Her North Star: Education.
Inge and her late husband, Hal Marcus (M.S. ’59) have given back to higher ed across many decades, including USC.
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For the First Time, Scientists Have Mapped the Genetics of How the Brain Ages, Region by Region
USC Viterbi senior Nicholas Kim, a biomedical engineering major, led the landmark study with hopes that it could one day help improve the treatment of dementia and other brain disorders.
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From Censored Chatbots to Cinematic Visuals: USC Undergraduates Push the Boundaries of AI
The students were recognized for their work across unique computer science studies, but all involving artificial intelligence.
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USC Study Finds AI Agents Can Autonomously Coordinate Propaganda Campaigns Without Human Direction
The findings carry stark implications for elections, public health, and anyone who relies on social media for information
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Measure Twice, Learn Once: The Class USC’s AME Engineers Can’t Forget
At USC Viterbi’s AME department, Mechoptronics is the course students dread taking and spend the rest of their careers grateful they did.
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Building Engineers: Inside USC’s Hands-On Mechoptronics Lab
At USC Viterbi’s Mechoptronics lab, 190 students learn measurement, troubleshooting, and hands-on engineering skills they’ll carry for life. From soldering capacitors to dissecting cameras, students say the course is challenging, time-consuming, and ultimately the most useful class they take.
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The AI That Taught Itself: USC Researchers Show How Artificial Intelligence Can Learn What It Never Knew
A USC Viterbi undergraduate and her professor developed a method that allows AI to fix its own knowledge gaps in real time.
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Women in Engineering (WiE) Celebrates 20 Years at USC
USC Viterbi’s Women in Engineering marks two decades of milestones and student empowerment.
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Where Flow Becomes Science: Inside the Fabulous Fluids Facility
A tour with Paul Ronney, Chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, through three laboratories that ask the same fundamental question: how does fluid move, and why?
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Love Letter to Humanity
Grand Challenge Scholars gather in Eternal City to address universal challenges at GSCP 2026 Annual Meeting
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USC Engineers Offer Solutions to Stop Unsafe AI Behaviors
USC Viterbi Researchers Plan to Develop Mathematical Guardrails for AI Safety in Upcoming Study With Philanthropic Funding
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For Users Managing Passwords, Convenience Beats Security
USC study reveals users favor convenience over security, preferring to keep their current password managers even when better tools are free
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USC Engineers Prepare to Listen as Orion Heads for the Moon
A 4.5-meter dish antenna on the USC campus will join 33 other ground stations contributing to a study of how spacecraft signals behave at lunar distance.
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Get Ready for The Games Week: the Engineering Grand Challenge LA28
From March 2-6, the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) will bring together researchers, civic leaders and student innovators to brainstorm the energy, mobility, media and infrastructure challenges of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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USC Astronautics PhD Student on the Emerging Area of Space Sustainability
At the 7th Summit for Space Sustainability in Paris, USC PhD student José Pedro Ferreira raised awareness of the potential impacts of space activities in the atmosphere and the need for emerging research to be reflected in global governance.