A new project called ALICE (Assessing LLM Integrity for Clinical Engagement), led by Marjorie Freedman at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is developing tools to test whether chatbot answers to…
Gaurav Sukhatme, interim dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and director of the USC Stevens School of Computing and AI, argued in a Marketplace Tech interview that universities should focus…
USC computer scientist Robin Jia, who leads the AI, Language, Learning, Generalization, and Robustness (ALLEGRO) Lab, answered five common questions about AI, explaining that AI models do not have emo…
Researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, in collaboration with the US Army Research Laboratory, won the Best Paper Award at MAGMaR for a study on how robots can communicate observat…
USC computer scientists led by Yue Zhao, assistant professor at USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and AI, have developed tools to audit and monito…
Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have shown that the AI model Allegro-FM independently learned the chemical bond concept without explicit instruction, as published in Nature Commun…
Terry Benzel, managing director of USC Information Sciences Institute within the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Stevens School of Computing and AI, is running for 2027 president-elect o…
A USC-led study found that advanced audio large language models (LLMs) such as those in ChatGPT and Gemini struggle to interpret nonverbal cues like tone and emotion, often taking speech literally and…
USC researcher Ruishan Liu has launched a three-year, nearly $900,000 National Science Foundation-funded project to build a traceable, cost-aware AI framework for medical data curation, aiming to auto…
The University of Southern California is launching a campus-wide initiative to integrate artificial intelligence education across all fields of study, according to Gaurav Sukhatme, interim dean of the…
USC researchers developed an AI tool to identify tweets containing COVID-19 misinformation and distinguish users spreading false claims from those countering them, finding that counter-misinformation …
USC computer science researcher Souti (Rini) Chattopadhyay has launched a five-year, $600,000 NSF CAREER Award project to study how humans and AI interact to enhance creativity and critical thinking, …
University of Southern California researchers have developed an algorithm called Vibrotactile Preference Learning (VPL) that efficiently learns an individual's preferred vibration patterns for produci…
Two USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Stevens School of Computing and AI graduate students, Karan Owalekar and Yiyang Ling, have developed IMPACT (Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable C…
USC researchers will present three papers at the 2026 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference in Sydney, Australia, covering robotic foundation models, humanoid loco-manipulation, and robot man…
USC assistant professor Ibrahim Sabek has received a $627,250 NSF CAREER Award for a five-year project titled "Toward Quantum-Augmented Database Systems" that aims to integrate quantum computing into …
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reflects on his 21-year tenure in an exit interview, discussing his mother's wish for him to become a bishop, the genesis of the Grand Challeng…
USC hosted the Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference and the International Conference on Neuro-Symbolic Systems simultaneously in June, bringing together researchers to address the gap between AI…
Three USC faculty members will lead four research projects funded by the Toyota Research Institute, totaling $3 million, to advance self-driving cars, humanoid robotics, and workplace AI adoption. The…
Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a four-fingered, tendon-driven robotic hand called the Musician Hand that can learn to play piano melodies by ear after a two-minute…