The U.S. Department of Energy is proposing a single national platform for AI-driven scientific research, as reported in an August 17, 2026 Communications of the ACM article that quotes ISI's Ewa Deelm…
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…
USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute scientists Amir Kalev and Naman Jain developed QuFeX, a quantum feature extraction module integrated into U-Net to create Qu-Net, a hybrid quantum-classica…
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…
Six projects involving University of Southern California researchers, including three led by USC, have been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission awards to advance artificial inte…
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…
The 2026 AI Index Report, published by Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and chaired by Yolanda Gil, a principal scientist at USC's Information Sciences …
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 …
A USC-led study used AI to analyze biomarkers including sweat, brain signals and eye movements to classify depression and suicidal ideation, offering a potential objective testing method for mental he…
A USC study evaluated AI chatbots ChatGPT-4, Llama 3.3, and Gemini 1.5 Pro on mental health questions, finding that while AI offers accessible support, licensed professionals rated responses as often …
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers will present work at ICML 2026 in Seoul addressing AI location bias, missing vocal clues, and other challenges. Their projects aim to make AI systems more creat…
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers will present papers at ACL 2025 on using AI for suicide prevention and generating long-horizon web tasks. One study analyzed 270,000 suicide records with AI to …
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…