Competence and Character
USC Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos recaps an extraordinary and transformative year in his State of the School Address
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The Secretive Networks Used to Move Money Offshore
Researchers at USC Viterbi have uncovered a highly unusual network pattern within the Panama Papers, showing how fortunes can be easily hidden in secretive offshore shell corporations, and how these remain difficult to trace and take down.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 1: Modeling Epidemics
Inaugural lecture in 10-part series focuses on modeling epidemics as a chemical reaction process
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Bistra Dilkina Named CAIS Co-Director
The USC Viterbi associate professor wants to expand the footprint of the center, which brings together AI and social work to find solutions to major societal problems.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Lay New Groundwork For Designing Biological Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Findings Published In Scientific Reports Employs New Methods And Tools For Decoding How Cognition, Creativity And Even Disease Evolve In The Brain
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When Bots Do the Negotiating, Humans More Likely to Engage in Deceptive Techniques
Series of studies reveal conditions under which humans more likely to act deceptively through virtual intermediaries
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A Sustainable Hackathon
The 4th annual Sustain-A-Thon saw 57 students propose solutions for making the planet more livable and sustainable.
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Engineering Our Way Through a Global Pandemic
USC master’s students tackle robots, masks and droplet dispersion, to better understand how to live with COVID-19.
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USC Student Develops AI Tools To Tackle Hate Speech, Hate Crimes
As AI makes its way into more areas of our lives, rooting out implicit bias is more crucial than ever, says USC computer science student Aida Mostafazadeh Davani.
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USC Viterbi Offers Two New Short Courses: “Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” and “Sustainable Energy”
Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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USC Wins First Place in the AIAA Small Satellite Student Competition
USC Viterbi students design an ionic electrospray thruster to help fill in the propulsion gap for small satellites.
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Can Sunlight Convert Emissions Into Useful Materials?
USC Viterbi chemical engineers are developing an environmentally friendly way to upcycle carbon dioxide emissions into polymers and other materials, with some help from a high school student researcher.
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Biegler Hall Gets a Makeover
The third floor Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering lab was reconfigured over the summer to offer students an interactive, yet safe experience this fall.
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Using Tattoo Ink to Find Cancer
Researchers in USC Viterbi’s Department of Biomedical Engineering have discovered how commonly used coloring agents such as tattoo inks and food dyes could help improve cancer detection.
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How To Make AI Trustworthy
New tool might aid the adoption of technologies such as autonomous vehicles
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Zoom Work Meetings, Anyone?
Researchers at USC ISI prepare for future emergencies during COVID 19 pandemic.
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Paul Mockapetris receives Software System Award
Former ISI researcher, Paul Mockapetris recognized for development of DNS.
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“Escape Velocity” Podcast Series Explores Race, Academia and STEM
New USC Viterbi series captures the stories of Black faculty, students and academic leaders.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Win 1st Place, Develop COVID-19 Risk Score for Los Angeles
Recent data science challenge, hosted by the city, identifies a new, color-coded metric for individual risk.
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A Novel Approach Produces a Completely New Kind of Dynamic Light Structure
USC Viterbi Innovation May Change Our Understanding of How Light Propagates.
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A Warm Fall 2020 Welcome from USC Viterbi
Dean Yannis Yortsos, faculty and staff welcome students and parents in this most unique of years.
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USC Viterbi Alumnus Donates 33,000 Masks
Qihong Wang, B.S. EE ’19, donated essential masks to USC Viterbi researchers, allowing them to continue pursuing their work during the pandemic.
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Viterbi Researchers Create The Lightest, Smallest, Fully Autonomous Crawling Microrobot Reported To Date
The RoBeetle’s artificial muscle is powered by controlled catalytic combustion, a technology that has the potential to enable the development of a diverse new generation of microrobots capable of operating on land, water and air.
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Yolanda Gil To Oversee Strategic Initiatives at Famed USC Information Sciences Institute
After 35 years of AI research, Gil’s is promoted to a new role where she will lead AI and data science initiatives at the USC Information Sciences Institute.