USC at ICLR 2025

April 25, 2025

USC researchers present cutting-edge advances in AI and machine learning at ICLR 2025, highlighting breakthroughs in 3D vision, decision-making, and deep learning

How Alex Gasca Went From Building Islands on Earth to Infrastructure for Space

April 23, 2025

Relativity Space infrastructure engineer credits USC Viterbi master’s program in Emerging Technologies in Construction with aiding new career in space engineering.

Bridging Borders: The IUSSTF – USC Viterbi Program’s Path to Global Innovation

April 11, 2025

How USC’s prestigious summer internship is transforming lives and advancing engineering excellence.

Nurture More Important than Nature for Robotic Hands

April 6, 2025

New paper from the ValeroLab shows that tactile sensors are less important than the order of learning experiences for embodied artificial intelligence.

USC Researchers Develop First-Ever Quantum Filter to Isolate Entangled States with High Precision

March 28, 2025

A technique based on new physics enables robust, scalable control over quantum information, potentially enabling more reliable quantum computing

Celebrating 20 Years of USC Viterbi Astronautical Engineering

February 21, 2025

The academic program and its record-breaking student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab are celebrating 20 years of advancing space exploration through stellar research and teaching.

New USC Graduate Program to Train Tomorrow’s Energy Technology Leaders

February 19, 2025

USC Viterbi launches a unique multidisciplinary MS in Energy Engineering for students who are passionate about solving our critical global challenges in energy transition.

Building Virtual Worlds with “Digital Twins”

February 3, 2025

Computer science doctoral student Jiawei Yang received an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for his research in 3D scene reconstruction and generative AI to enable safer robotics and autonomous driving

Could Crowdsourcing Hold the Key to Early Wildfire Detection?

January 23, 2025

USC researchers develop low-cost wildfire detection system to accurately detect wildfires minutes-even seconds-after they ignite.

USC Researchers Develop First Pulse-Mode Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Chip

January 10, 2025

Ray Sun, an Electrical Engineering PhD student, and his advisor, Constantine Sideris, have revolutionized the capabilities of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) technology. For the first time, a single chip can perform both continuous-wave (CW) and pulse mode EPR.

Big Ideas in Small Packages: Ph.D. Students Shine at USC Viterbi’s Three-Minute Thesis Contest

December 18, 2024

The annual competition challenges students to captivate audiences and convey groundbreaking research – all in 180 seconds.

Uniting Industry and Academia: 2024 Ming Hsieh Institute Research Festival

December 16, 2024

With a special demo on Disney’s BD Robots and a panel of ECE alumni, the 14th Annual Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Research Festival showcases pioneering and interdisciplinary student-led research.

USC Researcher Explores Human-AI Collaboration for Future Space Missions

December 12, 2024

Ulubilge Ulusoy, a PhD candidate in the USC Department of Astronautical Engineering (ASTE), researches how astronauts and AI can learn to collaborate more effectively for deep space missions.

USC+Amazon Center Announces 2024-2025 Projects and Fellows

December 5, 2024

The USC + Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning reaffirms its commitment to innovation by funding three new projects and welcoming three fellows for 2024-2025.

USC at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024

December 5, 2024

USC researchers present their latest research at NeurIPS 2024, one of the world’s top natural language processing and artificial intelligence conferences.

USC Launches First-of-its-Kind Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research

December 4, 2024

The launch of the new ORAI PhD certificate program is supported by a $2.9 million National Research Traineeship (NRT) grant from the National Science Foundation, putting USC at the forefront of AI for decision-making.

How a Ham Sandwich Can Solve Our Package Delivery Problems

December 4, 2024

Award-winning USC Viterbi research develops streamlined last-mile delivery solutions, improving delivery times and easing workloads for busy drivers.

New CRISPR Toolkit to Allow Remote-Controlled Genome Editing

December 2, 2024

USC Viterbi biomedical engineers harness focused ultrasound to revolutionize CRISPR’s capabilities to treat countless diseases.

New Wearable Sweat-Rate Sensors

November 20, 2024

As interest in wearable medical electronics takes off, electrical engineering student Sangwon Cha is working on a more commercially viable sweat-rate sensor. He presented his research at the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Oct. 15-17.