USC Viterbi-Led Startup Science of Sport Connects Kids to STEM
USC Viterbi alumnus Ricardo Valerdi teaches students STEM through the joy of sports, including partnerships with MLB and the NBA
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering News Back to News Archive
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Epstein Department Hosts 20th Mixed Integer Programming Workshop
The workshop is a leading international event in the field of integer programming and discrete optimization.
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Phebe Vayanos Named Co-Director of USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society
Vayanos leverages operations research and artificial intelligence to help underserved and marginalized communities.
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Computer Science Student Wins Award for Diabetic Eating Disorder Research
Natalie Humber created the first scoping review for diabulimia, a potentially fatal disorder that occurs when people with Type 1 diabetes stop taking insulin to lose weight
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Six USC Viterbi Faculty Honored with NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty will boost USC research in disease modeling, groundwater systems, machine learning and robotics.
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Don’t Feel Like Waiting 5+ Hours at the ER? Meet Your New Allies.
USC Viterbi students in health systems management engineering have developed strategies to reduce hospital wait times and increase overall efficiencies.
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Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test
Can language models be trusted to reason like humans do? Are they good at making decisions? These researchers set off to find out.
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Are You More Vaccine Hesitant Than A 57-Year-Old?
Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute used machine learning and deep statistical analysis to look for answers about vaccine hesitancy.
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Carl Kesselman Honored with 2023 IEEE Internet Award
The Information Sciences Institute Fellow will receive the prestigious award.
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Wide Awake and Dreaming: USC Viterbi’s 2023 Master’s Commencement Ceremonies
The class of 2023 is “the best educated, the most representative in our history.”
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“At Heart, We’re Problem Solvers:” USC Viterbi Undergraduate Commencement 2023
This year’s ceremony at Alumni Park was headlined by alumnus and venture capitalist, Mark Stevens, who praised the power and versatility of an engineering degree
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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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The Trojan Empowering Student Entrepreneurs
Sarah Hakim, ’23, helped create Trojan Marketplace, a student-run market featuring exclusively Trojan-owned small businesses.
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ISE Award Winner a Fierce Advocate for Mental Health
Claire Barbrack successfully overcame a difficult sophomore year to be named the 2023 Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Student of the Year.
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A Passion for Equity in Education Drives USC Viterbi ISE Award Winner
Janet Choi (B.S. ISE ’23) was recently honored for her research into improving access to online education for students with learning differences.
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Just Like Dad’s White T-Shirt: Trojan Engineer Unlocks Memories with Fragrance
For Aidan Niswender, B.S. ISE ’23, a COVID lockdown hobby became a passion, which could lead to a career in perfumery.
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USC Computer Scientists Are Tackling Dental Health and Birth Defects
FaceBase researchers are advancing dental, oral and craniofacial research with data.
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SIER Technologies Wins 2023 Min Family Challenge
The student startup is developing specially outfitted glasses with built-in speakers that will issue warnings to the visually impaired as they near unseen objects
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What Delivery Apps Reveal About Food Disparities in Los Angeles
The NIH National Institute of Minority Health recently honored new USC Viterbi research that harnesses online menu data to draw a detailed nutrition map of the city.
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Our Grandparents Ate Healthier Fruits and Veggies. A Trojan Engineer Seeks to Restore This.
How alumnus Andrew Johnson pushes the boundaries of agriculture with his industrial systems and engineering knowledge
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Jong-Shi Pang awarded Distinguished Professorship, USC’s Highest Honor
Pang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of operations research, optimization, and applied mathematics.
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Jong-Shi Pang included in Research.com’s Top 500 Best Scientists for 2022
Pang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of operations research, optimization, and applied mathematics.
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Renyuan Xu wins SIAM Early Career Award
Renyuan Xu, a former Oxford researcher, has won one of the highest early career honors in financial mathematics.
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USC’s Petros Ioannou, Gérard Medioni and J. Joshua Yang Elected as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The trio joins a distinguished class of 169 new inductees whose innovations have tangibly impacted society.
