News - November 2023

Anita Sengupta is on a Mission to Decarbonize Aviation

Hydroplane, founded by USC alum Anita Sengupta, receives Minority Emerging Technology and Industries Firm of the Year Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The Evolution of Cities: AI Helps Map Madrid and More

A USC computer scientist presents data to understand the changing nature of cities and plan sustainable cities of the future.

Putting Cancer Under A Bright Light

A new fluorescent probe illuminates protein clusters found in a subset of breast cancers.

The USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center Receives Top Global Honor for Engineering Diversity

USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center receives the 2023 Global Engineering Deans Diversity Award, having impacted tens of thousands of SoCal students.

Beneath the Waves

Rusty Jehangir empowers thousands to pursue underwater robotics and exploration with startup Blue Robotics

They Traveled 8,000 Miles to Find Each Other

Sujata Banerjee and Vibhu Mittal, who met at USC Viterbi decades ago, reflect on a life together and their recent decision to support Ginsburg Hall

Dean Yannis Yortsos Receives 2023 HENAAC Chairman's Award for STEM Leadership

Dean Yortsos Recognized as a Visionary Leader and Advocate for Diversity in Engineering

Space Archaeology at 17,000 Miles Per Hour

The preliminary findings from the first ever archaeological study of the ISS are shared during a presentation at USC.

Materials Discovery to Enable Computers that Think More Like Humans

New USC Viterbi-led research has uncovered a novel semiconductor with an unusual material property that can enable energy-efficient computing hardware that functions like the human brain.

USC Viterbi at The Economist Space Economy Summit

USC Viterbi leadership and alumni join global thought-leaders in debate about the economic growth of a multi-billion dollar industry.

Big Tech Inventor Mobility Leads To Higher Productivity

USC ISI researchers have discovered that inventors who switch firms play key structural roles in innovation and produce more impactful patents after transition.

Speeding into a New Era of Hypersonic Flight

Assistant Professor Ivan Bermejo-Moreno receives a NASA Early Career Faculty Award for computational studies of hypersonic flight.

Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Receives $700,000 Air Force Grant for GPU Cluster

New GPU cluster will allow the next generation of students and researchers to investigate the world of AI and machine learning as part of USC Frontiers of Computing initiative.

Balakrishnan Award Honors Legacy of Engineer Who Chose Math Over the Movies

Third ECE award goes to Washington University's Xudong Chen.

Stacey Finley Co-Chairs 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

USC Viterbi research and thought leadership was highlighted in 25 research and panel sessions at the leading event for biomedical engineering research and innovation.

Hangbo Zhao Receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award

The highly competitive program supports outstanding early career researchers developing innovative solutions to challenges faced by the Navy and Marine Corps.

Mahdi Soltanolkotabi Receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award for Reliable AI for MRI

$2.4 million grant will be used to develop new AI-powered algorithms that could lessen the need for higher-strength MRI machines and correct for various imaging artifacts.

Swabha Swayamdipta Wins Career-Defining Awards for Early Researchers

Combining her interest in computation and human language, Swabha Swayamdipta explores the growingly complex study of natural language processing.