AI for Soldiers, Movies, and Children: USC Engineer Elected to National Academy
Professor Shrikanth Narayanan recognized by the NAE for pioneering contributions to human-centered AI and speech technologies with wide-ranging societal impact
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Closing the Gap in Water Reuse: USC Engineer Elected to National Academy
Professor Amy Childress recognized by the NAE for transforming wastewater into clean water and bridging academia with the real world
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Cracking the Brain’s Code: Unlocking Neuron Memory to Advance AI
USC researchers discover neurons have memory and use a single neuron’s activity to map entire brain networks, first to achieve this “mission impossible” that opens new possibilities for AI and neuroscience.
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The End of Academic Writer’s Block? This Tool by USC Scientists Writes Research Papers in Under an Hour
USC researcher launches GRAIL just one day after OpenAI’s competing platform, promising to turn rough notes into submission-ready papers in under an hour
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AI System Built at USC Helps Investigators Track Down and Convict Sex Traffickers
Mayank Kejriwal’s research on fighting sex trafficking with artificial intelligence has earned a spot in Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.
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No Brain, No Problem: What Robots Can Learn from Sea Stars
USC Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab borrows a trick from nature’s toolkit that can be applied to optimize robot locomotion.
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How to ‘Fight On,’ But More Efficiently
USC Viterbi alumnus Joseph Erwin developed an algorithm to perfect his own trombone playing – starting with the USC fight song.
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From Cancer Research to Smart Cities: USC Builds Platform to Test Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Technologies
New infrastructure will help evaluate data sharing techniques for healthcare, transportation, and other sectors as part of NSF’s $10M privacy initiative
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Scientists Propose New Explanation for Quantum “Spookiness” That Einstein Might Actually Like
USC Viterbi researchers suggest mysterious quantum connections may arise from common-sense physics, not supernatural weirdness.
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Ever Wondered What Alumnus Neil Armstrong Learned at USC?
How to follow the peak experience of a lunar landing? Earn a graduate degree from USC.
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Ambitious Seniors Design and Build Solutions to the Toughest Engineering Problems
The annual Senior Design Showcase at the USC Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering is a chance for students to transform ideas into innovations, tackling some of the most pressing technological challenges facing industry today.
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In Memoriam: William H. Steier, Pioneer in Fiber Optics and Photonics
USC Viterbi professor spent nearly five decades advancing optical communications technology.
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A USC Viterbi Professor and A USC Librarian Unite in New Course to Fight Misinformation
“Finding information is no problem. Finding accurate information is a little trickier.”
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Three USC Viterbi Professors Named Fellows of National Academy of Inventors
Shang-Hua Teng, S.K. Gupta and Massoud Pedram receive the prestigious honor in recognition of their contributions to innovation, invention and technology.
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USC Students Lead Global Innovation at GSSC 2026
Bringing global student opportunities to life through external funding and international partnerships
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Finding Home in Oz: USC Student Helps Transform a Classic With AI
“Experience of a lifetime”: Suvaditya Mukherjee helps bring “The Wizard of Oz” to the Las Vegas Sphere using cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
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Every Second Counts: Leveraging Data to Streamline Emergency Medical Services
A partnership between USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE), Columbia University, and the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) is developing advanced digital tools to speed up emergency services and save lives.
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A State-of-the-Art New Home for Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC
The rapidly growing USC Viterbi department will move into modernized facilities in the transformed Salvatori Computer Science Center, thanks to a $25 million cumulative investment by Daniel J. Epstein.
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A Gift to Shape the Future
Ron and Valerie Sugar invest in innovation with a new trustee chair at the USC School of Advanced Computing
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Azad Madni Honored by ASME with Spirit of St. Louis Medal
Azad Madni to receive ASME’s Spirit of St. Louis Medal at 2026 ASME SSDM
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AI as ‘Green Field’ of Opportunity
Conversation with Richard Ho, OpenAI’s Head of Hardware offers advice to students, and insights on field as part of Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series in Advanced Computing
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The Perfect Gift
Alumnus Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel, former minister of telecommunications and IT, has helped shape modern Saudi Arabia. Now, his family has given back to the school that helped shape him.
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USC Researcher Wins Prestigious Computing Award for Scientific Workflow Innovations
USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute computer scientist Ewa Deelman, whose software has helped detect gravitational waves and map earthquake risks, has been honored with one of the field’s most prestigious awards.
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AI’s Promise and Peril: USC Experts Navigate the Breakneck Pace of Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence advances at breakneck speed, even the scientists building it admit they’re navigating uncharted territory where the line between revolutionary breakthrough and existential risk remains alarmingly unclear.