When Self-Driving Trucks Don’t Know What They Don’t Know
At the USC Center for Autonomy and AI’s fall workshop, participants grappled with a critical question: Can foundation models power the next generation of autonomous systems?
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Where Service Meets Storytelling
U.S. veteran David Cobbins, ’13, leads cutting-edge virtual training programs at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.
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AI Is Powering the Search for America’s Critical Minerals
At USC ISI, researchers are using machine learning to unlock data from thousands of maps and build one of the world’s largest knowledge bases of global mineral resources.
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Maral Mousavi Wins Prestigious International Award in Electroanalytical Sciences
Mousavi, an expert in electrochemical sensors for at-home and point-of-care testing, has been honored with the 2026 Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award.
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What Can Simulate Nature? Aid Blockbuster Drugs? And Get Congress to Agree?
USC, home of the first operational quantum computer in academia, hosted its second quantum technology forum, bringing together leading experts from industry, academia and government.
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New ISE Faculty Bring Expertise in Analytics, Optimization, Healthcare and Applied Probability
USC Viterbi welcomes new ISE faculty members Karthyek Murthy, Karmel S. Shehadeh, Alfredo Torrico and Shengbo Wang.
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Space Robotics at the Edge of the Unknown
The USC Department of Astronautical Engineering (ASTE) is expanding its focus on space robotics, with an emphasis on autonomous systems that can operate in extreme and unmapped environments.
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Artificial neurons developed by USC team replicate biological function for improved computer chips
Breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could reduce energy use of chips and advance artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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USC Researchers Develop First Wireless, Wearable, Real-Time, Camera-less Motion Tracker
USC ACME lab is reshaping the field of motion tracking with a new technology based on magnetic induction.
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New NIH Project to Model Breast Tumors for Better Immunotherapy
Stacey Finley will co-lead the five-year $2.6 million project that will harness computational modeling to find effective immunotherapy approaches against devastating metastatic breast tumors.
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Researchers Invent New AI Tool to Automate Detection of Cancer in Blood Samples
Innovation detects cancer cells in blood samples (liquid biopsies) in as little as 10 minutes and identifies hard-to-find cells without humans in-the-loop
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Space Robotics Platform Astrobee Set for Commercial Transition for ISS Operations
USC/ISI hosted researchers and startups to discuss NASA’s Astrobee for next-generation space robotics
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Click Here for Confusion: The State of Privacy Settings
Finding a privacy setting on social media should be simple. But a new study from USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) shows it’s anything but.
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USC Secures Hat Trick at Interspeech 2025 with 3 Research Awards
USC SAIL Lab’s Best Paper and Dual Grand Challenge Wins Solidify its Leadership in Speech Communication Science and Technology
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Building a Digital Apprentice
Presented at a DARPA tech demo, ISI’s KNIC system supports complex tasks by learning from those who’ve done them before.
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Robots, Meet Your New Teacher: Yourselves
A USC Viterbi graduate student team co-developed a new robotic system that adapts and learns every second.
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A Sensor Stir Stick to Keep Your Caffeine Hit in Check
USC biomedical engineers have created a low-cost stirrer to precisely measure a drink’s caffeine concentration, helping coffee-lovers avoid the pitfalls of over-caffeination.
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USC Research Harnesses AI to Predict and Understand Complex Fluid Mixing
Research from the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has unraveled the mystery of viscous fingering, in work that could be critical to groundwater remediation and oil recovery.
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USC Viterbi Team Demonstrates First Optical Device Based on “Optical Thermodynamics”
Innovation could help chips process information more efficiently
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Medical Electronics that Match the Stretchability of Human Tissue
Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a novel method for fabricating highly precise and stretchable electronics that conform seamlessly to the body.
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Robotaxis Keep Riders Safe, But What About Their Data?
A collaborative research team with USC ISI expertise finds that existing methods for selecting privacy enhancing technologies are inadequate for real-world robotaxis
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State of the School 2025: Flourishing in the Age of AI
In his annual address, Dean Yannis Yortsos spoke of the school’s progress and of what he expects will be the role of AI in engineering education and research.
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The Society of Women Engineers Recognizes Azad Madni
Madni to receive the 2025 Rodney Chipp Memorial Award from SWE
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Harnessing Data to End Hospital Gridlock and Streamline Surgery
New data-driven models developed by a USC and Carnegie Mellon-led team could reduce surgery delays, cut hospital costs by up to 60% and improve access to surgery.
