Two USC Viterbi Professors Named INFORMS Fellows
Ali Abbas and Johannes Royset receive one of the highest honors in operations research for helping people make better decisions in an uncertain world
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USC Professor Azad Madni Awarded 2026 John Fritz Medal
Azad M. Madni has been awarded the 2026 John Fritz Medal, widely regarded as engineering’s highest honor and often called the “Nobel Prize of Engineering.”
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For This USC Engineering Junior, Every Bottleneck Is an Opportunity
From Olympic crowds to satellite manufacturing, USC Viterbi junior Mila Mattson is driven to make complex systems work better for everyone
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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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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 Students Are Developing a Forecasting System to Improve Hospital Operations
USC Viterbi analytics and health systems management students are creating a forecasting system with an interactive analytics dashboard that helps USC Keck Medicine professionals better anticipate future patient demand and operational needs.
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How USC Viterbi Engineers Are Helping Trojan Football Gain a Competitive Edge
USC Viterbi analytics students are creating a new, comprehensive database so the USC Trojans football team can better access the insights needed to win on the gridiron.
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A New Model to Improve Resource Planning and Allocation
USC Viterbi’s Karmel S. Shehadeh introduces a framework to help organizations better balance procurement cost, shortages, and waste under uncertainty.
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USC Professor Receives Decision Analysis’ Highest Honor
Ali Abbas wins the Frank P. Ramsey Medal for decades of research that has helped shape how people make complex decisions
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The Power of Following Through
USC Viterbi graduate Alex Wang turned curiosity, leadership and a passion for public service into an extraordinary four-year journey.
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USC Research Advances Fairer Algorithms and Smarter Markets at EC 2026
USC Researchers to Present 4 Papers at EC 2026: Advancing Algorithmic Fairness, Market Design and AI at the Intersection of Economics and Computing
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USC Studies Aim to Advance Self-Driving Cars, Transform Robot “Brains” and Understand Workplace AI Use
3 USC faculty will lead research projects funded by the Toyota Research Institute
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Researchers Seek to Catch Money Launderers By Building a Machine That Out-Thinks Them
A DARPA-funded team at USC Viterbi aims to generate fictional but realistic schemes to stress-test the algorithms that may one day make dirty money impossible to hide.
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Unlocking the Inner Ear: Transforming How Scientists Study Hearing and Balance
A collaboration between USC/ISI, Ostrow School of Dentistry, and the National Institutes of Health is creating the first national database for hearing and balance research.
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Professor Azad Madni Receives IISE Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award
The prestigious award recognizes educators who have contributed significantly to the industrial and systems engineering profession through teaching, research and innovation.
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Class Of 2026 Trojan Engineers Tasked As Trustworthy Problem-Solvers As They Launch Next Chapter
From 35 countries and equipped with the skills to advance their chosen field of engineering, the Viterbi Class of 2026 gathered to celebrate degrees earned across oceans, languages, and cultures.
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Ingenuity and Perseverance: USC Viterbi Master’s Graduates Are Ready For The Toughest Challenges
More than 3,500 engineering students gathered at the Galen Center on May 15 to celebrate the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Class of 2026 master’s commencement ceremonies, marked by keynote addresses.
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At USC Viterbi, 170 newly minted Ph.Ds. stepped forward toward a bright future
The Class of 2026 gathered at Bovard Auditorium to celebrate years of research, discovery and impact.
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USC ITE team takes first place at regional transportation competition
ISE sophomore Mila Mattson helps lead 10-member team to victory
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She Chose Impact Over Expectation, and Found Her Voice at USC
CLASS OF 2026 – Raised near campus but worlds away from it, this first-generation Eritrean American found her calling in a major she had never heard of, earned a full-ride scholarship, and is graduating this May with two Viterbi degrees and a commencement speech to deliver.
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From Rocket Engines To Restaurant Kitchens: Jose Hernandez’s Relentless Pursuit of Better
CLASS OF 2026 – Graduating USC Viterbi master’s student Jose Hernandez applies a systems mindset and tenacity to everything he does-with results.
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Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree
CLASS OF 2026 – Having earned her Bachelor’s in Industrial & Systems Engineering in December 2025, this USC Viterbi graduate is now crossing the finish line of her Master’s in Engineering Management – and she’s just getting started.
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USC Viterbi’s Karmel S. Shehadeh Lands Prestigious AFOSR Grant
Her research aims to advance the state-of-the-art contextual stochastic optimization methodologies, providing tools for making smarter decisions when the future is uncertain.