Meet The Trojan Engineer Helping Chinese Cities Bounce Back After Disaster
Nan Li, Ph.D. ’14, was named a 2018 top “Innovator under 35” in China by MIT Technology Review for his work in resilient cities
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Swimming like a Shark
USC Viterbi Assistant Professor Mitul Luhar Develops an Algorithm to Optimize Surfaces for Fast, Frictionless Motion in Water and Air
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“Yes, And . . .”
Engineering students speed dating, telling wild tales and assuming martial arts stances in class!? Just another day in Writing 340, which injects a little bit of improv into the reading and writing.
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Addressing the Urgent Need for Early and Accurate Tools in Diagnosing and Treating Cancer
Assad Oberai demonstrates how machine learning can be used to more quickly and accurately diagnose breast cancer.
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USC Viterbi Announces its 2019 NSF CAREER Award Winners
USC Viterbi Professors Pierluigi Nuzzo, Kelly Sanders and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi receive highly competitive National Science Foundation awards for their leadership and novel research.
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“Deep Fakes”: Researchers Develop Forensic Techniques to Identify Tampered Videos
USC computer scientists find movement is key to spot manipulated content
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High School Students on the Cutting Edge of Biomedical Engineering
Students from the Orthopaedic Medical Magnet High School are building their own biomedical devices, with a little help from USC Viterbi faculty and students.
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Making Children’s Voices Heard in the Courtroom
USC computer science undergraduate student Zane Durante is using artificial intelligence to identify truthful language in child forensic interviews.
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence Comes Alive in Our Buildings
The Center for Intelligent Environments launches to advance human-centered building design and operation to increase well-being, safety, and even joy at work and beyond
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Battling Bias in AI
USC computer science PhD student tackles algorithmic fairness for social justice in machine learning.
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Students Build App That Empowers Teachers in Remote Corners of the World
A U.S. State Department-funded project will allow Mobile Teacher to reach more educators without Internet
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The End of an Era
A blended family of eight, six of whom attended USC, bids farewell to the school as the youngest graduates
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USC ISI and Intel Custom Foundry Collaborate to Spur Microelectronics Innovation
Partnership to offer multi-project wafer (MPW) runs for the microelectronics community, integrating ISI’s MOSIS manufacturing services with Intel’s high-performance device fabrication technology.
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Robotics and American Sign Language
USC Viterbi research team develops technology that may help deaf children better learn sign language
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Raising A.I.
Alice Parker’s Neuromorphic Circuits Mimic Neurons to Learn and Adapt.
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From Viruses to Social Bots, Researchers Unearth the Structure of Attacked Networks
A new statistical machine learning framework gleans the invisible and unobservable structure of any attacked network
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USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Shatters Student Altitude Record
Traveler IV is reportedly the first entirely student-designed and built rocket to pass the Kármán line into outer space
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Death of the Middleman? USC Researchers Imagine a Cheaper, Fairer Marketplace For Digital Goods
Beyond improving e-commerce, USC Viterbi’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari sees a blockchain-driven future where cars, homes and appliances can buy and sell digital information.
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Persevering to Excellence
Yilda Irizarry-Valle, a USC Viterbi alumna, overcomes challenges to receive prestigious GEM Young Alumnae Leadership Award
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It’s What’s Inside that Counts, Unless You’re a Robotic Fish
Mechanical engineering students challenged themselves to make a robotic fish that not only swims like a real fish, but looks the part too, demonstrating the possibilities inherent to soft robotics.
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Master’s Students Shine
At the 2019 USC Viterbi master’s commencement, graduates shared hugs, smiles and selfies.
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Culture, Family, and Nanotechnology
Vanessa Pangbourne, chemical engineering graduate and president of SHPE-USC, adapts to new challenges in leadership and in engineering
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Changing the Narrative
Avri Parker, president of the National Society of Black Engineers USC Chapter, lands dream job at Microsoft, sets sights on chief technology officer roles—and aims to start a school for black girls in technology.
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Dreaming Big Pays Off
Computer science student turned entrepreneur Drake Rehfeld is flying high with five ventures under his belt before he’s even graduated—but it didn’t happen without hard work.