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Moving at the Speed of Light: USC Celebrates Stevens School Naming

The USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence pairs more than 50 years of computing history with connections across the university.
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From Field Hockey to WhatsApp: A USC Master’s and a Career Building for Billions

Today, Narang is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta and tech lead for WhatsApp Growth, leading a team of 10-plus engineers. One of his projects, on-device message translation, launched in September ...
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USC’s Yasser Khan Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to Develop Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Brain Injury

USC researcher Yasser Khan, a 2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient, will develop chemical and physiological sensors to ...
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Three USC Engineers on What the Next Big Earthquake Could Mean for Los Angeles

Researchers across USC Viterbi explore what the next major earthquake could mean for Los Angeles, from amplified ground motion and unstable geology to AI-powered traffic systems and the materials that ...
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How Los Angeles’ Geology Can Intensify an Earthquake

Assistant Professor Chukwuebuka Nweke explains how the region’s sedimentary basins can amplify seismic waves – and why ...
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Buildings May Survive an Earthquake but Remain Unusable

USC Engineering Insights – USC Viterbi’s Professor Bora Gencturk explains why meeting seismic code does not guarantee that a ...
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After an Earthquake, the Road Map Changes. This AI Model Was Built for That

USC Engineering Insights - When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, our best traffic models will be reading a map that no longer exists. USC Viterbi professor Cyrus Shahabi is building the system ...
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Two USC Viterbi Professors Named INFORMS Fellows

Ali Abbas and Johannes Royset receive one of the highest honors in operations research for helping people make better decisions in an uncertain world ...
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USC Professor Azad Madni Awarded 2026 John Fritz Medal

Established in 1902, the medal honors pioneering leaders whose work has fundamentally advanced human progress. Madni joins a distinguished group of recipients that includes Thomas Edison, Alexander ...
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NSF Awards $20M to USC and Collaborators to Renew AI Institute

With an expanded role in NSF AI4OPT’s second phase, USC will lead AI for Optimization research, bring together a larger interdisciplinary team and host the Seth Bonder summer camp Over the next five ...
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A new way to help CAR-T cells fight solid tumors could change cancer treatment

USC researchers developed a technique that uses focused ultrasound to temporarily “light up” solid tumors, giving cancer-fighting immune cells a target they can finally recognize. For more than a ...
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Can AI Read the Room? USC Study Finds AI Is Better at Reading Than Listening

Researchers identified why audio AI models miss tone, emotion and other audio cues – and developed new solutions that dramatically improve their ability to interpret speech beyond words Today, users ...