News - February 2024

Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) Turns 15

Annual meeting celebrates the successes and future of the now global humanitarian engineering program

USC Viterbi & India: Accelerating A Strong Partnership

A USC Viterbi delegation accompanied USC leaders to further highlight and multiply the ties between USC Viterbi and India

Advancing Excellence and Equity in Engineering Education

USC Viterbi's inaugural John Brooks Slaughter Leadership in Engineering DEI Summit brought together leaders from across the country to discuss how an infusion of diversity, equity and inclusion could improve AI, health, games, and the overall student experience

From Drug-Detection to Eco-Entrepreneurship: Introducing Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz

Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz brings a wealth of experience to her role as assistant professor at USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Mitul Luhar joins the National Academies' New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Luhar will be part of the 2024-26 cohort of 26 outstanding early and mid-career scientists, engineers and medical professionals selected by National Academies.

Shri Narayanan Honored With Awards From IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society

Receives McCluskey, Shannon-Nyquist technical achievement awards for work related to speech, language, multimedia and affective computing.

Ready for Takeoff: USC Viterbi Aviation Safety and Security Program Rolls Out New Course Based on Emotional Intelligence

Students learn to promote safety and resilience in organizations through a mix of theoretical modules and hands-on exercises

New Algorithm Disentangles Intrinsic Brain Patterns From Sensory Inputs

Shanechi and her team unmask consistent intrinsic brain patterns across different subjects.

AI Platform to Revolutionize the Discovery of the Materials of the Future

The $2 million NSF project will harness AI to generate new optimized superalloys for game-changing applications from aerospace to healthcare.

Does AI understand common sense?

ISI researchers dive deep into evaluating how well language models can reason about our everyday world.

Nanoparticles "Hitchhike" on Immune Cells to Catch Cancer Metastasis Early

USC Viterbi researchers have designed particles that can light up the lymph node cancer cells otherwise undetectable by MRI.

Narayanan, Pedram, Medioni Named 2023 Fellows of Association for Computing Machinery

They're among 68 ACM fellows honored for "transformative contributions to computing science and technology."

Three USC Schools Collaborate to Reimagine the LA River

Researchers in landscape architecture, fluid mechanics and augmented reality have created an interactive hydraulic model installed alongside the Los Angeles River.

Joshua Yang Secures Center of Excellence for Work on Neuromorphic Computing

USC will lead Air Force-funded Center that includes four other universities.

Being There

While his friends went to high school football games, biomedical engineering student Dominic De La Torre cared for his ailing grandmother. He has no regrets.