“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”

May 12, 2023

The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.

Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?

May 8, 2023

Postdoc Scholar Emmanuel Johnson is part of a team receiving a $20M National Science Foundation grant to research AI-augmented learning.

Let’s Make a Deal: How Emotion-Aware AI Agents Help Negotiations

April 12, 2023

USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Kushal Chawla teaches AI how to negotiate with emotional awareness

34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters

October 28, 2022

USC Viterbi New Faculty Hires 2022-2023

From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI

September 13, 2022

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.

“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.

May 12, 2022

At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.

Could distributive classrooms increase diversity in AI?

March 25, 2022

Emmanuel Johnson (’21) receives CRA Computing Innovation Fellows award for post-doctoral research on collaboration in a distance-learning world.

Randy Hill’s Army Service Ended in 1984. He Still Serves Veterans — With AI, Graphics and VR

November 10, 2021

Professor Hill reflects on service, storytelling and his favorite virtual human to fight PTSD

Can A.I. Help Low-Income Workers Get Jobs?

October 4, 2021

New partnership with the U.S. government brings artificial intelligence-based interview training to communities around the country

Improving Human-Computer Conversations From Camp Site Negotiations

June 24, 2021

Researchers from ICT and ISI devise CaSiNo, a scenario-based dataset for teaching negotiation.

What Might Sheep and Driverless Cars Have in Common? Following the Herd.

February 24, 2021

Researchers Show How Social Component of Moral Decision-making Can Influence Programming of Autonomous Vehicles and Other Technologies

Building Trust between Construction Workers and Construction Robots

October 29, 2020

How virtual reality can help robots change the face of the construction industry.

When Bots Do the Negotiating, Humans More Likely to Engage in Deceptive Techniques

September 23, 2020

Series of studies reveal conditions under which humans more likely to act deceptively through virtual intermediaries

USC Viterbi Listed Again Among the Nation’s Top 10 Engineering Graduate Programs

March 19, 2020

Annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report also keep USC Viterbi among the top five private engineering schools

Can a Building Help Thwart The Next Active Shooter?

October 29, 2019

Researchers have designed a virtual environment to test how building features in schools and offices help or hurt occupants during active shooter incidents.

Do We Trust Artificial Intelligence Agents to Mediate Conflict? Not Entirely

October 16, 2019

New study says we’ll listen to virtual agents except when goings get tough

Everywhere at Once

August 22, 2019

Two apps created by USC Viterbi Research Professor Ari Shapiro allow users to create digital avatars of themselves to improve communication.

“Deep Fakes”: Researchers Develop Forensic Techniques to Identify Tampered Videos

June 20, 2019

USC computer scientists find movement is key to spot manipulated content

Robotics and American Sign Language

May 29, 2019

USC Viterbi research team develops technology that may help deaf children better learn sign language

Hao Li Earns Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award

March 1, 2018

Li will develop artificial intelligence techniques to create more realistic computer-generated humans for U.S. Navy immersive training simulations

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February 26, 2018

Can virtual audiences make you a better public speaker?

“Real Deal @ USC” showcases impressive startups from around the country

January 4, 2018

Entrepreneurs of young, exciting companies gather in SCilicon Beach for an evening of networking and dual-use ventures

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“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”

Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?

Let’s Make a Deal: How Emotion-Aware AI Agents Help Negotiations

34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters

From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI

“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.

Could distributive classrooms increase diversity in AI?

Randy Hill’s Army Service Ended in 1984. He Still Serves Veterans — With AI, Graphics and VR

Can A.I. Help Low-Income Workers Get Jobs?

Improving Human-Computer Conversations From Camp Site Negotiations

What Might Sheep and Driverless Cars Have in Common? Following the Herd.

Building Trust between Construction Workers and Construction Robots

When Bots Do the Negotiating, Humans More Likely to Engage in Deceptive Techniques

USC Viterbi Listed Again Among the Nation’s Top 10 Engineering Graduate Programs

Can a Building Help Thwart The Next Active Shooter?

Do We Trust Artificial Intelligence Agents to Mediate Conflict? Not Entirely

Everywhere at Once

“Deep Fakes”: Researchers Develop Forensic Techniques to Identify Tampered Videos

Robotics and American Sign Language

Hao Li Earns Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award

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“Real Deal @ USC” showcases impressive startups from around the country