Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Viterbi Naming
Two decades ago, Andrew and Erna Viterbi made a generous gift to name the school, propelling it to an exciting and uplifting trajectory
Read More
Faculty News Back to News Archive
Read More
How Online Echo Chambers Make Eating Disorders Worse
USC researchers uncover social media’s “vicious cycle” that traps vulnerable populations within pro-anorexia communities.
Read More
USC Research at AAAI 2024
From public health insights to busting bias in machine learning, discover USC researchers’ groundbreaking artificial intelligence work at AAAI 2024
Read More
From Drug-Detection to Eco-Entrepreneurship: Introducing Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz
Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz brings a wealth of experience to her role as assistant professor at USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Read More
Wade Hsu Wins IEEE Photonics Society’s 2024 Young Investigator Award
Recognized for ‘seminal work on bound states in the continuum in optics, and for breakthroughs in computational electromagnetics and imaging.’
Read More
New Chip Design to Enable Arbitrarily High Precision with Analog Memories
Paper in Science published by team led by J. Joshua Yang of USC shows high-precision computing achieved with low-precision devices.
Read More
USC Viterbi Announces Participation in Department of Commerce Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety
USC will be one of approximately 30 universities helping to advance the development and deployment of safe, trustworthy AI under a new U.S. Government Safety Institute
Read More
Could AI Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic?
Computer science doctoral student Elizabeth Ondula leverages AI to enhance pandemic response strategies
Read More
How to Build Your Own Robot Friend: Making AI Education More Accessible
USC researchers develop new open-source platform to help students build their own low-cost robot companion from scratch
Read More
Ready for Takeoff: USC Viterbi Aviation Safety and Security Program Rolls Out New Course Based on Emotional Intelligence
Students learn to promote safety and resilience in organizations through a mix of theoretical modules and hands-on exercises
Read More
Diversifying Data to Beat Bias in AI
USC researchers propose a novel approach to mitigate bias in machine learning model training
Read More
A voice in public policies
From biotech to misinformation, some of today’s biggest policy challenges are informed by researchers at ISI.
Read More
Mitul Luhar joins the National Academies’ New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Luhar will be part of the 2024-26 cohort of 26 outstanding early and mid-career scientists, engineers and medical professionals selected by National Academies.
Read More
Shri Narayanan Honored With Awards From IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Receives McCluskey, Shannon-Nyquist technical achievement awards for work related to speech, language, multimedia and affective computing.
Read More
Advancing Excellence and Equity in Engineering Education
USC Viterbi’s inaugural John Brooks Slaughter Leadership in Engineering DEI Summit brought together leaders from across the country to discuss how an infusion of diversity, equity and inclusion could improve AI, health, games, and the overall student experience
Read More
New Prototype for Wearable Ultrasound Device to Measure Stiffness Changes in Deep Organs
The device, developed by USC and MIT researchers, could be used to help monitor for prevention of acute liver failure
Read More
AI Platform to Revolutionize the Discovery of the Materials of the Future
The $2 million NSF project will harness AI to generate new optimized superalloys for game-changing applications from aerospace to healthcare.
Read More
Nanoparticles “Hitchhike” on Immune Cells to Catch Cancer Metastasis Early
USC Viterbi researchers have designed particles that can light up the lymph node cancer cells otherwise undetectable by MRI.
Read More
Three USC Schools Collaborate to Reimagine the LA River
Researchers in landscape architecture, fluid mechanics and augmented reality have created an interactive hydraulic model installed alongside the Los Angeles River.
Read More
Narayanan, Pedram, Medioni Named 2023 Fellows of Association for Computing Machinery
They’re among 68 ACM fellows honored for “transformative contributions to computing science and technology.”
Read More
Xiang Ren Honored as one of MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 for the Asia-Pacific Region
A pioneer in Natural Language Processing, he advances AI’s ability to communicate with humans
Read More
Looking Back on the Incredible Undertakings of AI4Health in 2023
The Center on AI Research for Health debuted projects on radiation oncology, neurodegenerative diseases and mental health
Read More
Joshua Yang Secures Center of Excellence for Work on Neuromorphic Computing
USC will lead Air Force-funded Center that includes four other universities.
Read More
Three USC Viterbi Researchers Named IEEE Fellows for 2024
ISI’s Terry Benzel, ECE’s Mike Shuo-Wei Chen and Maryam Shanechi, are honored for their contributions.
