Finding Home in Oz: USC Student Helps Transform a Classic With AI
“Experience of a lifetime”: Suvaditya Mukherjee helps bring “The Wizard of Oz” to the Las Vegas Sphere using cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
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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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Transforming Buildings Into Intelligent Systems: Workspaces to Improve Your Mood
Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering are reimagining buildings as intelligent engineered systems that adapt to human cognitive states.
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How AI Got A New And Improved Personality
Ph.D. student Bin Han led the development of a special AI project with potential applications in healthcare, business and more.
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Beyond “Run, Hide, Fight”: Defensive Design for Safer Campuses
A team of USC researchers have developed a simulation strategy for understanding and predicting how people respond to emergencies such as active shooter incidents and fires.
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Bringing Digital Light to Live-Action Filmmaking
Prof. Andrew Gordon and Ph.D. candidate Natali Chavez from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies explore new AI-assisted workflows for low-cost virtual production.
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“You Are Agents of Change”: The USC Viterbi Master’s Class of 2025
At the USC Viterbi master’s commencement ceremonies, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos praised graduates on the “singular achievement” of earning their master’s degree.
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USC at ICLR 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
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Building A More Resilient City of Angels, Part 1
As Angelenos brace for “fire years” rather than “fire seasons,” USC Viterbi engineers offer potential solutions for the future.
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Veterans Day 2024: The USC Institute for Creative Technologies Uses Engineering and Hollywood Creativity to Aid Veterans
Supported by the U.S. Army, the institute has been a global leader in virtual humans, graphics, AI and mixed reality for the last 25 years.
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USC at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Topics include trustworthiness in large language models, application-driven machine learning, adaptive brain stimulation, fair ranking functions and molecule synthesis
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California DREAMS Takes a Community-first Approach to Making Math Meaningful
The Superhub is working with middle school math students and instructors to evolve instruction.
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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.
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A Game-Changer in Combating Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces
How a Collaborative Effort at USC ICT Redefines Sexual Assault Training to Improve Victim Advocacy in the Military
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“Battle Buddy:” Revolutionizing Mental Health for Veterans
USC develops a non-judgmental, virtual companion who is available 24/7 to support veterans with mental health and suicide prevention
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USC Computer Science Named the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
The department will be housed in the new LEED-Platinum certified building, the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall.
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VR will change the way we train for active shooter incidents
Immersive virtual environments provide healthcare workers with a highly effective method to prepare for emergencies.
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“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”
The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.
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Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?Â
Postdoc Scholar Emmanuel Johnson is part of a team receiving a $20M National Science Foundation grant to research AI-augmented learning.
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Let’s Make a Deal: How Emotion-Aware AI Agents Help Negotiations
USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Kushal Chawla teaches AI how to negotiate with emotional awareness
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34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters
USC Viterbi New Faculty Hires 2022-2023
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From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI
USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has played a pivotal role in the development of most of the tech you use every day.
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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Could distributive classrooms increase diversity in AI?
Emmanuel Johnson (’21) receives CRA Computing Innovation Fellows award for post-doctoral research on collaboration in a distance-learning world.
