When Basics are a Luxury, How Do You Promote Sustainability?
$10 milk. Electricity six times the national average. An innovative course at USC partners with Alaska’s Tlingit indigenous community to find new answers.
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USC Collaboration Helps FaceBase Reach 1,000-Dataset Milestone
The data repository allows craniofacial scientists to share data, which could ultimately lead to improved care for patients with craniofacial developmental disorders.
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A Race Car Powered Only by the Sun?
USC Viterbi design team, SC Solar Car, is working to build a fully solar-powered vehicle with plans to compete in the 2022 American Solar Challenge.
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Siemens Healthineers Collaborate on New Class of MRI
A new class of MRI improves imaging of moving organs and metal implants to make diagnosis and treatment more accessible
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Research team makes considerable advance in brain-inspired computing
Introduces a more efficient and sustainable hardware device for AI and ML applications
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“Deepfaking the Mind” Could Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces for People with Disabilities
Synthetic neurological data created using generative adversarial networks could speed up training of brain-computer interfaces, new study finds.
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Honoring Grant Imahara’s Legacy
Honoring Grant Imahara’s legacy with the dedication of a new study lounge and a Day of Making
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The Art of Mixing: Shapeshifting and Shockwaves
USC researchers develop a tracking method in supersonic and hypersonic engines, paving the way for optimal combustion in high-speed flights
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AI Can Tell You If a Therapy Session Will Be Effective
New tool automates evaluations of cognitive behavioral therapy
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Can We Coordinate Water Sources to Recover More Water Sustainably?
USC research show how blending water in desalination and wastewater reclamation facilities can increase potable water supply while minimizing environmental impact
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USC and UCLA Students Compete in Philanthropic Video Game Tournament
Proceeds will go to the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students and UCLA Bruin’s Black Bruin Resource Center.
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USC Viterbi Students Develop AI-based Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Tool
A student team developed machine learning algorithms that help predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease using speech.
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Randy Hill’s Army Service Ended in 1984. He Still Serves Veterans — With AI, Graphics and VR
Professor Hill reflects on service, storytelling and his favorite virtual human to fight PTSD
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USC Viterbi Professor and Undergrad Team Up to Improve AI
The duo designed a new tool to make neural networks faster, more powerful, and cheaper
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How AI Could Help Screen for Autism in Children
An interdisciplinary team led by USC computer science researchers is creating a faster, more reliable and more accessible system to help clinicians screen children for developmental disorders such as autism and ADHD.
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In Memoriam: “Renaissance Man” George Ban-Weiss
A world-class environmental researcher and virtuoso bassist, Ban-Weiss influenced public policy and touched lives
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Understanding an Uncertain World Using Math
Renyuan Xu, former Oxford researcher, joins USC Viterbi, bringing expertise in probability to improve finance and COVID-19 public health policy.
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Inaugural Class of Groundbreaking U.S.-China Degree Program Arrives at USC
Participants in the Communication Data Science Dual Degree Program with Tsinghua University arrived in August 2021 to begin a year of coursework at USC
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If You Can’t See Inside a Cell, Let the Math Look For You!
Researchers at USC and beyond develop a new structure for modeling the inner functions of a cell
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Two USC Viterbi PhD Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships
The team is focused on the emerging and important field of federated learning
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Scholars By Day, Singers By Night
USC Viterbi students and Asli Baat vocalists put the “plus” in Engineering+.
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In Pursuit of a Realistic Model of the Hippocampus
USC Viterbi biomedical engineers have secured $1.2 million in BRAIN Initiative funding to create a model of the hippocampus that is functionally indistinguishable from the real thing.
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Two Beams Are Better Than One
Meet the optical “it couple” helping to speed up and secure wireless communications
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Is L.A. Like a City Built on Jell-O? Can Enzymes Be the Key to Replacing Concrete? Chukwuebuka Nweke May Have the Answers
New USC Viterbi assistant professor seeks to make our cities more resilient in the face of natural disasters.
