Click Here for Confusion: The State of Privacy Settings
Finding a privacy setting on social media should be simple. But a new study from USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) shows it’s anything but.
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USC Secures Hat Trick at Interspeech 2025 with 3 Research Awards
USC SAIL Lab’s Best Paper and Dual Grand Challenge Wins Solidify its Leadership in Speech Communication Science and Technology
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Robots, Meet Your New Teacher: Yourselves
A USC Viterbi graduate student team co-developed a new robotic system that adapts and learns every second.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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New DARPA-Funded Project Aims to Unravel the Brain’s Learning Secrets
A USC Viterbi team will lead the study that could inform future diagnoses for neurological disorders and the development of next-generation bio-inspired AI.
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Why Your Friends May Be More Susceptible to Influence Than You Are
USC/ISI researchers examine who gets influenced online and why, in award-winning research recognized at ICWSM 2025.
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New Discovery Reveals the Spinal Cord’s Role in Bladder Control
A first-of-its-kind study offers hope for future treatments of urinary incontinence caused by neurological disorders, aging and other conditions.
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ISI at ACL 2025
Papers explore the struggles of AI teaching, authorship, AI safety, and the limits of language models in interviews and mime.
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Unlocking the Brain’s Filing Cabinet
USC researchers have discovered how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing.
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USC at ICML 2025
From health applications to theoretical breakthroughs, USC researchers contribute to a dynamic range of work at this year’s premier machine learning conference
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Discovering New Materials: AI Can Simulate Billions of Atoms Simultaneously
Allegro-FM achieves breakthrough scalability for materials research, enabling simulations 1,000 times larger than previous models.