A Sensor Stir Stick to Keep Your Caffeine Hit in Check
USC biomedical engineers have created a low-cost stirrer to precisely measure a drink’s caffeine concentration, helping coffee-lovers avoid the pitfalls of over-caffeination.
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USC Research Harnesses AI to Predict and Understand Complex Fluid Mixing
Research from the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has unraveled the mystery of viscous fingering, in work that could be critical to groundwater remediation and oil recovery.
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USC Viterbi Team Demonstrates First Optical Device Based on “Optical Thermodynamics”
Innovation could help chips process information more efficiently
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Medical Electronics that Match the Stretchability of Human Tissue
Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a novel method for fabricating highly precise and stretchable electronics that conform seamlessly to the body.
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Transforming Buildings Into Intelligent Systems: Workspaces to Improve Your Mood
Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering are reimagining buildings as intelligent engineered systems that adapt to human cognitive states.
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USC Viterbi Student Wins Prestigious Astronaut Scholarship
Alara Berkmen, a biomedical engineering student, is recognized for leadership and dedication to cancer research.
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Robotaxis Keep Riders Safe, But What About Their Data?
A collaborative research team with USC ISI expertise finds that existing methods for selecting privacy enhancing technologies are inadequate for real-world robotaxis
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State of the School 2025: Flourishing in the Age of AI
In his annual address, Dean Yannis Yortsos spoke of the school’s progress and of what he expects will be the role of AI in engineering education and research.
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Protecting the Digital World of Golf
Rosalia Hajek, ’06, Topgolf Callaway Brands’ chief information security officer, named a Top 100 Global Leader.
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Harnessing Data to End Hospital Gridlock and Streamline Surgery
New data-driven models developed by a USC and Carnegie Mellon-led team could reduce surgery delays, cut hospital costs by up to 60% and improve access to surgery.
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New Language Technologies for American Sign Language
USC Researchers achieved 91 percent accuracy at computer recognition of signs
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How AI Got A New And Improved Personality
Ph.D. student Bin Han led the development of a special AI project with potential applications in healthcare, business and more.
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Earthquakes, Tailgates and Superhero Movies: USC Structural Engineers Share Their Stories
Alumni of the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) reflect on how their USC education equipped them with the skills, connections and persistence to tackle high stakes challenges.
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From Drought to DOE: Alumna Bria Jamison is Shaping National Environmental Policy
USC Viterbi alumna Bria Jamison (BS ’18, MS ’19) has dedicated her career to advancing water and energy sustainability – now, she’s influencing public policy decisions at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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New USC Viterbi Eye Study Could Redefine Rules of Tissue Behavior
USC biomedical engineers have shown that tissue stiffness does not always follow fiber orientation – an exception with implications for glaucoma, myopia, and ocular trauma.
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Energi Simulation Renews Research Chair in Subsurface Energy Data Science at USC Viterbi
Data science and AI-driven research optimizes the development and management of subsurface fluids and energy.
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SprintRay, a USC Viterbi-Born Business, Wins Prestigious E&Y 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Two USC alumni co-founded the 3D printing company for dentists, which has become an industry leader.
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Brain’s Blood Flow Could Change How We Understand and Treat Alzheimer’s
New USC Viterbi-led study focusing on brain’s vascular dynamics challenges the current prevailing method of dementia diagnosis and treatment.
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC School of Advanced Computing Launch an Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
First cohort to start on campus in Fall 2026
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Gaming the cancer-immunity cycle by synchronizing treatment schedules
What if cancer treatment could be made more effective and less toxic – not by inventing new drugs, but by rethinking the timing strategy of existing therapies?
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‘Like the Piano Tuners of Quantum Computers’
A startup co-founded by Daniel Lidar, a pioneer in quantum computing, is producing software to unlock quantum’s considerable potential.
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USC ISI and Stanford HAI Host 2025 AI Index Panel
From foundation models to global AI regulation, the expert panel examined the trends, challenges, and opportunities highlighted in this year’s AI Index report
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USC Team Develops New Sensory Robot Hand Advancements
Professor Daniel Seita collaborated with a student team in developing the MOTIF Hand, a tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology.
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What’s Cooking in the Advanced Materials and Metallurgy Labs?
From the perspective of USC researcher Wen Chen, human history is a tale of material transformation.
