Carl Kesselman Wins 2026 HPDC Achievement Award
USC pioneer honored for grid-computing breakthroughs that helped reshape large-scale science and anticipated the cloud
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Building Virtual Tumors to Crack Cancer’s Resistance to Immunotherapy
BME50 – A USC Viterbi bioengineer is building digital tumors, cell by cell, with a goal that could change how oncologists treat breast cancer: knowing in advance which patients immunotherapy will actually help.
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What If the Device Changing Brain Medicine Was Free for Anyone to Build?
BME50 – A USC Viterbi bioengineer’s implantable device that any researcher can use, modify, and build on is nearly ready for its first animal test. Getting here required reinventing not just the hardware, but how science shares its tools.
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There is no “Brain X-Ray.” A USC Neurosurgeon-Engineer is Helping Build Better Ones
BME50 – A USC neurosurgeon and engineer argues that the tools to monitor the brain cheaply and without surgery are within reach – and that getting there requires putting engineers where patients actually are.
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Building a Better Transistor
USC-led SWIFT project aims to reinvent the transistor using waves of magnetism, potentially slashing energy use and cooling costs, while helping GPS resist jamming
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Four Innovators Gather at USC to Explore the Devices Changing Medicine
BME50 – At the Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering’s 50th anniversary symposium, four researchers showed how far a device can travel: from a laser cutter in a campus lab to a clinical trial, from a lollipop to a diagnostic tool, from a blind eye to restored vision.
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Does AI Have Low EQ? USC Study Identifies Where Models’ Emotional Reasoning Breaks Down
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens engineers reveal how AI models misinterpret emotional cues from audio and video, and introduce a framework to help them reason with real evidence
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50 Years of Engineering Better Health
BME 50 – The Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering at USC Viterbi and Keck celebrated 50 years of excellence and innovation with a two-day gathering
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What Happens When Food-Safety Chemicals React With Food?
USC Viterbi researcher Adam Simpson studies compounds created when industrial disinfectants alter food, and whether those changes could affect human health.
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Can AI Predict What Humans Do and Why? USC Study Sheds Light on AI’s Limits
USC AI researcher and robotics pioneer find that LLMs can make human-like predictions by observing players in social games but struggle to learn from experience and apply what they learn to new situations
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NSF Awards $20M to USC and Collaborators to Renew AI Institute
With an expanded role in NSF AI4OPT’s second phase, USC will lead AI for Optimization research, bring together a larger interdisciplinary team and host the Seth Bonder summer camp
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The Hidden Cost of Where You Live
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers trace a costly, invisible bias in AI systems back to a single factor: your address
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USC Study Helped Shape Transparency Requirements for EU Social Media Moderation Law
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers identified a loophole in content moderation reporting regulation and proposed a statistical solution later reflected in updated European Union policy
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Even Verified Cybersecurity Research Artifacts Can Be Hard to Reuse
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers at ISI found that many cybersecurity research artifacts carrying top-tier evaluation badges were difficult to find, install or run
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AI Gives Medical Advice Every Day. Who’s Checking Whether It’s Safe?
USC researchers are building ALICE to test whether chatbots give people medical information that is accurate, complete and safe to act on
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What If We Asked a Different Question?
Five ideas from USC Viterbi Dean (Interim) Gaurav Sukhatme’s Marketplace Tech conversation that explore the role of universities in the age of AI.
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Unlocking the Physics of Turbulence with AI
A USC-led collaboration has received Department of Energy Genesis Mission funding to develop an AI framework for unprecedented high-fidelity turbulence simulation.
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USC Computer Scientist Answers Five Common Questions About AI
Through AI interpretability research, Robin Jia answers five questions about AI– from emotions and consciousness to learning, decision-making and speed
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How to See Eye to Eye With AI
An award-winning study from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the US Army Research Laboratory applies natural language dialogue to help humans and intelligent systems coordinate knowledge and achieve shared goals.
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Giving AI Agents the Keys? USC Engineers Develop Tools to Audit and Monitor AI Agents
USC computer scientists develop tools to screen agents before they act, block risky actions in real time and trace their decisions after the fact
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Can AI “Understand” a Fundamental Concept of Chemistry?
When USC Viterbi researchers developed a way to look inside a powerful AI model, they found evidence that it had independently learned one of chemistry’s most fundamental concepts: the chemical bond.
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A new way to help CAR-T cells fight solid tumors could change cancer treatment
USC researchers developed a technique that uses focused ultrasound to temporarily “light up” solid tumors, giving cancer-fighting immune cells a target they can finally recognize.
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USC Scientists Are Using Quantum Computing to Rethink Cancer Detection
By combining quantum computing with artificial intelligence, USC researchers are laying the groundwork for medical imaging tools that could help doctors diagnose cancer and plan treatments more precisely
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Can AI Read the Room? USC Study Finds AI Is Better at Reading Than Listening
Researchers identified why audio AI models miss tone, emotion and other audio cues – and developed new solutions that dramatically improve their ability to interpret speech beyond words