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The new tool gives users greater control over AI agents by allowing them to trace, steer and revise their decisions in real time, attracting new funding from Microsoft.
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USC researcher Yasser Khan, a 2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient, will develop chemical and physiological sensors to help detect neural damage in patients with traumatic brain injury
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Joining from the University of Michigan and USC’s Information Sciences Institute, the new faculty bring expertise in AI, quantum computing, advanced hardware and machine learning
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USC Engineering Insights — Researchers across USC Viterbi explore what the next major earthquake could mean for Los Angeles, from amplified ground motion and unstable geology to AI-powered traffic systems and the materials that determine whether a building stands or falls.
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USC Engineering Insights – USC Viterbi’s Professor Bora Gencturk explains why meeting seismic code does not guarantee that a building can reopen after an earthquake, and how performance-based design could support a faster recovery.
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USC Engineering Insights – When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, our best traffic models will be reading a map that no longer exists. USC Viterbi professor Cyrus Shahabi is building the system that can adapt in real time.
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USC Engineering Insights – Assistant Professor Chukwuebuka Nweke explains how the region’s sedimentary basins can amplify seismic waves – and why different earthquakes can produce different patterns of amplified ground motion across Los Angeles.
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USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers at ISI find that partial internet failures are as common as complete outages and may linger unnoticed for years
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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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Inspired by decades of virtual-human research at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, Sidekick uses conversational AI to help veterans navigate healthcare, employment, housing, education and benefits using information curated by VA specialists.
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USC researchers have developed customizable brain implants that could provide a clearer view of memory, movement, emotion and other complex functions
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A USC study of nearly 2,000 hours of Holocaust survivor testimony finds that smiling often signals distress, not happiness, and offers a simple clue for telling the two apart.
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USC Viterbi and Stevens researchers team up with Cal Fire to build the first AI tool that could pinpoint where a wildfire started and spread during its first 24 hours in upcoming project
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A study of hundreds of thousands of suicide records finds overlooked chances to recognize distress long before a person reaches a mental health clinic – or worse
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USC engineers develop a material that can withstand temperatures exceeding 600°C while dumping heat into space and protecting interior structures
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During his career at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies within USC Viterbi and USC Stevens, Professor Jonathan Gratch has helped define the science of affective computing and its role in shaping our increasingly complex relationships with intelligent machines.
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In a new Nature Sustainability commentary, USC Viterbi researcher argues advanced water modeling can reduce uncertainty and help turn water disputes into opportunities for cooperation.
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The USC Viterbi and Stevens researchers’ automated system analyzes multilingual job postings to identify deceptive recruitment tactics, risky platforms and industries targeted by traffickers
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USC Viterbi scientists built a device of five thin atomic layers that could make memory chips dramatically denser, cheaper, and powerful enough to run AI on your phone without sending a single byte to the cloud.
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USC pioneer honored for grid-computing breakthroughs that helped reshape large-scale science and anticipated the cloud
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BME50 – A USC Viterbi bioengineer is building digital tumors, cell by cell, with a goal that could change how oncologists treat breast cancer: knowing in advance which patients immunotherapy will actually help.
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Each year, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies at USC Viterbi and USC Stevens hosts a summer program where visiting undergraduates participate in mentored research, combining advanced computing with expertise in psychology, linguistics and immersive media.
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BME50 – A USC Viterbi bioengineer’s implantable device that any researcher can use, modify, and build on is nearly ready for its first animal test. Getting here required reinventing not just the hardware, but how science shares its tools.
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BME50 – A USC neurosurgeon and engineer argues that the tools to monitor the brain cheaply and without surgery are within reach – and that getting there requires putting engineers where patients actually are.
