USC Viterbi Staffer Named 2021 Outstanding Academic Advisor
The prestigious award recognizes Yadi Wang for her dedication to her students at USC Viterbi in her role as a master’s student advisor.
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Learning From Lies to Spread the Truth
USC Viterbi researchers use new language analysis tools to combat misinformation
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Electric Propulsion: The Future of Sustainable Aviation
USC researchers awarded a new NASA grant to make air travel cleaner, greener and more adaptable.
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Computer Science Professor Wins ‘Test of Time’ Award for Influential Paper
Shang-Hua Teng’s groundbreaking paper on smoothed analysis of algorithms helped explain a long-debated phenomenon: why do some algorithms work better in practice than in theory?
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On the Cutting Edge: USC at the Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference
USC research focuses on making safe, realistic and efficient robotic systems at the Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference, 2021.
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Could Mapping Tiny Hairlike Structures Help Treat Lung Illnesses?
With a $2.3 million NIH award, USC researchers will study how cilia behavior and structure impact their function, a key in improving diagnostics and treatments for lung illnesses like COVID-19.
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USC+Amazon Center Announces its Selected Projects for 2021-2022
The new center will support five research initiatives from across USC Viterbi.
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Need help building IKEA furniture? This robot learns your preferences and lends a hand.
Researchers at USC created an algorithm that allows machines to learn from humans and predict their next move.
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Burçin Becerik-Gerber to Chair the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dean’s professor and expert in human-building interaction to begin three-year term July 1, 2021.
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Improving Human-Computer Conversations From Camp Site Negotiations
Researchers from ICT and ISI devise CaSiNo, a scenario-based dataset for teaching negotiation.
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Find Your Genetic Relatives Quickly and Accurately with USC ISI’s iLASH Algorithm
ISI researcher and PhD student utilize iLASH to study genetic causes of diseases and the genetic structure of populations.
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Viterbi K-12 STEM Outreach: From Molecular Modeling to Addressing Social Problems Using AI to Fighting Hate Speech
Even in the midst of the pandemic, USC Viterbi professors continued to prioritize K-12 outreach, engaging in projects aimed to foster learning and incite passion for science and engineering
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Latest Tests on 6G Return Surprising Results
The research may help lead to haptic internet, mobile edge computing, and holographic communication
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Two USC Viterbi Faculty Win Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards
Rehan Kapadia and Qiming Wang are two of only 38 recipients nationwide.
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ISI’s Jay Pujara Receives Google Grants for Teaching AI to Navigate Context and Uncertainty
ISI researcher Jay Pujara and team receive grants from Google for their award-winning project on creating probabilistic models for AI systems.
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What We Know About Water May Have Just Changed Dramatically
Research from USC Viterbi and USC Dornsife points to a potentially strong impact from water purification to drug manufacturing.
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“Cloudy With a Chance of Misbehavior”: Researching Malicious Traffic originating from Cloud Machines
ISI researcher Jelena Mirkovic and students team up to research cloud providers and the “misbehavior” that occurs on these platforms.
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Can Measuring Air Pollutants Help Us Combat COVID-19?
An air sampling method created by USC Viterbi researchers has been adopted by the Department of Homeland Security to better understand COVID-19’s spread.
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An Opportunity to Mitigate Student Health Outbreaks Through Wastewater
USC researchers use wastewater to help predict and mitigate spread of COVID-19, with applications toward other highly contagious illnesses like the flu.
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As Water Sources Become Scarce, Understanding Emerging Subsurface Contaminants is Key
USC researchers modeled complex subsurface water flow to help assess the risk of contaminants appearing in high, unsafe concentrations in variable water sources.
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Five USC Viterbi Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
Research spans from self driving cars, virtual touch, AI for good, teaching machines commonsense and electromagnetic device design.
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Zoom Applause, Accolades at the 2021 USC Viterbi Faculty and Staff Awards
USC Viterbi faculty and staff celebrate excellence, early initiative, research, teaching and service after the school’s first, fully-virtual year of instruction
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A Week of Robotics at USC Viterbi
Robotics experts and USC community partners come together for week long talks and interactive sessions about cutting-edge robotics research and topics, hosted by USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center
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USC Researchers Develop Technology to Detect Internet Outages Around the World
Researchers at the ANT Lab use Trinocular to monitor internet outages in Myanmar and beyond.
