Three USC Viterbi Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Professors Keith Chugg, Jay Kuo and Gerald Loeb join this year’s list of 175 distinguished academic inventors
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Connecting the Globe Through Music: New USC Viterbi Schwarzman Scholar
Ben Ma wins prestigious scholarship for all-expenses paid master’s program in China
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Conference on Robotic Learning: Teaching Robots to Cook, Navigate and Learn From Mistakes
From robots that help with everyday tasks, move objects in complex environments, and learn “on the job,” USC computer scientists presented their research at 4th Conference on Robotic Learning.
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Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition Returns
The latest edition of the 11-year-old MEPC features 15 startup teams competing for a $50,000 grand prize.
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Titanium Atom That Exists in Two Places at Once in Crystal to Blame for Unusual Phenomenon
Researchers discover why a perfect crystal is not good at conducting heat, although it seemingly should be.
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USC Researchers Explore Improving Measurement Tools for Quantum Physics
The more sensitive measurement tools are, the more information physicists can extract from quantum particles, such as photons.
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STARFISH: Space Exploration’s Newest Star
USC’s Space and Engineering Research Center looks to the star-shaped sea creature for their groundbreaking soft robotics project.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 11: Environmental Influences on Work From Home
As part of an 11-part lecture series, USC Viterbi researchers spoke on the role and influence of built environments on mental and physical health, and work productivity and satisfaction.
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LavaLab Opens Its Doors
USC Viterbi’s premier undergraduate startup incubator targeted a more diverse group of students than ever before this semester – and was the better for it.
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New Masters-Level Quantum Computing Degree
Program will draw on decades of quantum computing expertise
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USC ISI Researcher Uses AI to Combat COVID-19 Under the Microsoft AI for Health Program
The Microsoft grant will help develop knowledge graphs for a COVID-19 data infrastructure.
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Computer Vision Predicts Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
New Tool Offers Means to Phenotype Patients
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 10: Protein Engineering by Directed Evolution
Richard Roberts’s lab invented mRNA display to design new peptides and proteins. He is now using this and other tools to help scientists develop therapies and diagnostics for COVID-19.
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Wellness Workout: Mechancial Engineering Student Leads 6-Minute Yoga
Mechanical engineering student Anna Balbach is also a certified yoga instructor. She shared this six-minute video to help peers find mental balance and strength ahead of finals.
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Showing Robots How to Drive a Car…In Just A Few Easy Lessons
USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.
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AI Tool May Predict Movies’ Future Ratings
USC Viterbi researchers are using AI as a tool identify violent, substance-abuse and sexual content in movie scripts before a single scene is shot
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New Test Reveals AI Still Lacks Common Sense
Despite advances in natural language processing, AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, finds a new USC study.
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Toward A More Equitable USC Viterbi
In a recent memo, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Brandi P. Jones, vice dean for diversity and strategic initiatives, summarize how USC Viterbi plans to empower Black, Latinx and Indigenous students, faculty and staff.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 9: Digital Contact Tracing
Cyrus Shahabi’s digital contact tracing goes beyond mobile phones, reducing false positives.
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Cheers to a WiSE 20 Years
The USC Women in Science and Engineering program celebrates 20 years of women empowerment in academia.
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How do you innovate inclusion?
HackSC, SHPE, NSBE, and Girls in Tech host USC’s first ever Diversity & Inclusion Hackathon
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Researchers Isolate and Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
New machine learning algorithm could discover novel neural patterns and enhance brain-machine interfaces
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USC Viterbi Student and Air Force Officer Makes Plans to Go to Space
U.S. Air Force officer and astronautical engineering graduate student, Edward Proulx, prepares to fly into space at USC.
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After a record-breaking deployment Navy Officer returns to USC for second graduate degree
Jonathan Messer, M.S. ’18, put his systems engineering degree to use during a global pandemic and a humanitarian mission in Central America. He’s now taking it to outer space.
