USC-Led Team Receives DARPA Grant to Develop Light-Based Computing Chips
Four-year Defense-funded effort to explore ultralow power photonic computing.
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USC and Capital One Establish New Center for Responsible AI in Finance
Housed under the USC School of Advanced Computing, the center aims to advance responsible AI for financial services
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Unlocking the Road Ahead: Exploring the Challenges and Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
A Glimpse into the USC Center for Autonomy and AI’s Efforts
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Teaching robots to walk on the moon, and maybe rescue one another
USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center are teaching dog-like robots to navigate craters of the moon and other challenging planetary surfaces in research funded by NASA.
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Could Computer Science Aid the Next Jimi Hendrix?
With award-winning music education app ‘Notey’s World,’ Adithya Bellathur and a team of USC alumni seek to encourage new guitarists and musicians.
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Mengjie Yu Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Honored for proposal titled ‘On-chip electrical synthesis of few-cycle light via optical frequency comb.’
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California Has Microelectronics DREAMS
USC is tapped to lead the Defense Ready Electronics and Microdevices Superhub of Southern California.
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Mike Shuo-Wei Chen wants seamless communication between the digital and analog worlds
The analog-to-digital converter architecture developed by Chen and his team has been implemented in advanced CMOS technology.
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What If Autonomous Devices Could Program Themselves, Out in the Wild?
Paul Bogdan, fellow researchers publish research explaining how heterogeneous processors in cyber-physical systems could adapt and self-program.
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Wade Hsu Wins IEEE Photonics Society’s 2024 Young Investigator Award
Recognized for ‘seminal work on bound states in the continuum in optics, and for breakthroughs in computational electromagnetics and imaging.’
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New Chip Design to Enable Arbitrarily High Precision with Analog Memories
Paper in Science published by team led by J. Joshua Yang of USC shows high-precision computing achieved with low-precision devices.
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Could AI Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic?
Computer science doctoral student Elizabeth Ondula leverages AI to enhance pandemic response strategies
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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.
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New Algorithm Disentangles Intrinsic Brain Patterns From Sensory Inputs
Shanechi and her team unmask consistent intrinsic brain patterns across different subjects.
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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.”
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Looking Back on the Incredible Undertakings of AI4Health in 2023
The Center on AI Research for Health debuted projects on radiation oncology, neurodegenerative diseases and mental health
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Joshua Yang Secures Center of Excellence for Work on Neuromorphic Computing
USC will lead Air Force-funded Center that includes four other universities.
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Three USC Viterbi Researchers Named IEEE Fellows for 2024
ISI’s Terry Benzel, ECE’s Mike Shuo-Wei Chen and Maryam Shanechi, are honored for their contributions.
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Zaijun Chen Receives Awards from Optica, Sony for Research on Photonic Sensors and AI Accelerators
Diminishing bandwidth, high energy consumption make smart sensors a necessity.
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Trojan Photons: Trapping Light in Nowhere Land using Lagrange points
Article in Nature Physics shows the utility of Lagrange points in guiding light.
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Eun Sok Kim, Chongwu Zhou Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professors are among 162 inductees in the class of 2023
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New AI Algorithm Enables Advanced Real-Time Decoding for Neurotechnologies
Algorithm can enhance decoding accuracy of brain signals in real-time brain-computer interfaces.
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Balakrishnan Award Honors Legacy of Engineer Who Chose Math Over the Movies
Third ECE award goes to Washington University’s Xudong Chen.
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USC SAIL Media Intelligence Research Recognized by U.K.’s Royal Historical Society
Interdisciplinary work receives 2023 Deswarte Prize in Digital History
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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
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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.
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USC at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
USC researchers present 14 papers at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), showcasing leading-edge research in robotics.
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Faculty and Students Pay Tribute to Software Engineering Pioneer Barry Boehm
Boehm is remembered as a dedicated researcher and a “wonderful advisor”, who greatly shaped the life of his students and colleagues.
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DEN@Viterbi celebrates 50 years of high-impact distance learning
The progressive pedagogy of the pioneering distance learning program has changed the lives of graduate students worldwide.
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A Tribute to Excellence and Equity: the John Brooks Slaughter Center for Engineering Diversity
From Topeka to the White House, Slaughter has lifted as he climbed
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Qian, Bansal study the way robots move, interact with the world around them
The researchers share some commonalities in their work, apart from winning an NSF CAREER Award.
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Paul Bogdan joins team researching nanotechnology for NSF-funded center
The UMich-led Center for Complex Particle Systems (COMPASS), one of four new Science and Technology Centers, will look to nature for inspiration on particles.
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Port Cities in North Africa and the Middle East are Losing the Battle Against Climate Extremes
Studies warn against major hydroclimatic, and environmental vulnerabilities
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New Laser-Array Processor Could Vastly Improve AI Computing Efficiency
Study conducted by team including USC, MIT shows 100x improvement over existing technology.
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Building Better Models Starts With Reexamining the Metrics
USC computer scientists present a better way to measure the performance of generative AI models at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
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Keeping the Lights On
USC Viterbi’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari and USC economist Matthew Kahn have proposed an ethical plan to promote power and water conservation that targets the biggest users while protecting the poor.
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Maryam Shanechi Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist
She was recognized for her “pioneering brain-machine interfaces that can model, decode, and control complex neural activity patterns by the intersection of engineering, computing, and neuroscience”
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Six USC Viterbi Faculty Honored with NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty will boost USC research in disease modeling, groundwater systems, machine learning and robotics.
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USC Review Touts Benefits of Newer Materials for Memristive Devices
A USC review published in the journal Nature Electronics suggests that the “unique features of vdW materials provide a greater freedom for creating precisely engineered memristive devices.”
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Unbiased Medical Devices for All
Yasser Khan wins a prestigious Google Research Scholar Award for racial bias correction in a medical device that measures oxygen levels
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USC to Lead Interdisciplinary Project on Mental Health
A collaborative effort with UCLA will predict psychological health risk factors
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Kosko receives Hebb Award from International Neural Network Society
USC professor honored for his research work in the field of neural learning.
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Quantum Computers Are Better at Guessing, New Study Demonstrates
USC researchers leverage techniques to manage error accumulation, demonstrating the potential of quantum computing in the error-prone NISQ era
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Advancing Computer Vision One Pixel at a Time
USC Viterbi researchers propose a novel framework to address challenges in computer vision.
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Wide Awake and Dreaming: USC Viterbi’s 2023 Master’s Commencement Ceremonies
The class of 2023 is “the best educated, the most representative in our history.”
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“At Heart, We’re Problem Solvers:” USC Viterbi Undergraduate Commencement 2023
This year’s ceremony at Alumni Park was headlined by alumnus and venture capitalist, Mark Stevens, who praised the power and versatility of an engineering degree
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“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”
The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.
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Engineering the Ultimate Ride: Hannah Rose’s Quest to Push the Limits of Theme Park Innovation
A Taylor Swift theme park? For Rose, a leader in USC’s themed entertainment student group, why not?
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Two Graduating Seniors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Both students are among the first cohort of the Ming Hsieh Institute Undergraduate Scholars program.
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Powered by Algorithms – and Jazz
Graduating Ph.D. student Lillian Clark’s dissertation explores how to improve robot communication in remote environments. Her study of jazz helped her think on her feet.
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Graduating Electrical and Computer Engineering Major Receives the USC Viterbi Community Impact Award
Nomar Rodriguez is being honored for his leadership and service to USC Viterbi’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
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Daniel Lidar to Lead MURI on Quantum Computing Research
The Department of Defense MURI Award will allow Lidar’s multi-institutional team to investigate techniques that may unlock the full potential of quantum computing.
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Using AI to Diagnose COPD In One Minute with 98.5% Accuracy
Paul Bogdan has developed a new and improved method to detect chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for early diagnosis and better treatment
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The Quiet Revolution of AI on the Edge
AI is running on mobile phones, sensors, and home appliances thanks to the engineering innovations that make the most of the limited memory, reduced computational power, and little energy available in these devices.
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Fetal Heart Disease Visible for First Time on Real-Time MRI Scan for Expectant Mothers
Breakthrough imaging procedure can be used to better characterize congenital heart disease and to plan immediate care for newborns
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New Chip Design to Provide Greatest Precision in Memory to Date
Will enable powerful AI in your portable devices.
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Smart(er) Cameras, A New Vision for the Future
USC Viterbi researchers partner with Samsung to develop energy saving, “self healing cameras.”
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Giving Back and Looking Forward: 8th Annual Scholarship and Fellowship Dinner
Gratitude takes center stage as donors come face to face with the students they support.
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Stressed at work? USC Researchers Aim to Change That
An interdisciplinary team, including three USC Viterbi researchers, recently received a $1.1M National Science Foundation grant for managing, mitigating on-the-job stress
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Shri Narayanan Receives the 2023 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
The award is the highest honor in the field of speech communication research.
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Making a Computer Observe Like a Human
USC ISI Research team combines multiple types of machine learning techniques to improve how a program can identify people and things
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New NSF Center on Soil Research Launched
USC to lead Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Soil Technologies
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TREBUCHET: A High-Powered Processor for Cutting-Edge Encryption
Researchers from USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute are part of a team working to keep sensitive data secure with accelerated computing.
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The USC Signal and Image Processing Institute Celebrates its Golden Anniversary
Past and present SIPI students and faculty gather to toast 50 years of innovation – from JPEGs to brain-computer interfaces
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Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a fairness enhancing algorithm that also keeps data secure.
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A Faster, More Efficient Way to Solve Partial Differential Equations
A new method from Wade Hsu’s group is up to 30,000,000 times faster than existing methods – a game-changer for nanophotonics research and many other disciplines
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The Single Oil Spill that Can Disrupt the Global Energy Supply
A maritime area three times the size of the city of London holds the highest risk for oil spills in the Gulf which can have devastating consequences locally and globally.
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Constantine Sideris One of 25 Researchers Honored by Office of Naval Research
USC Viterbi assistant professor receives three-year grant to pursue work in biomedical sensing, health monitoring.
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USC Viterbi Honors Inaugural A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Award Recipients
Awardees made important contributions in the area of mathematics of systems
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Catching Some Z’s is a Challenge for Millions. Can Wristbands Help Solve the Problem?
Professor Michael Khoo and his SleepHuB partners look at a range of technologies to uncover sleep problems
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Using Computer Generated Images to Create Unbiased Facial Recognition
Information Sciences Institute researchers use machine learning to invent an impartial way to recognize faces
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Lights, Camera…Stereotypes? Film Characters’ Actions Reflect Gender Bias
A machine-learning framework developed by USC researchers reveals a pattern of stereotyped actions by male and female characters in films over 100-year period
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USC’s Petros Ioannou, Gérard Medioni and J. Joshua Yang Elected as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The trio joins a distinguished class of 169 new inductees whose innovations have tangibly impacted society.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Named 2023 IEEE Fellows
USC Information Sciences Institute’s Carl Kesselman and Premkumar Natarajan, and Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari were elevated for their impactful research contributions.
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2022: The Year of the Chip
Forty years after Time magazine named the computer as “Person of the Year,” it’s time to consider another remarkably impactful item.
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USC at NeurIPS 2022
USC researchers present 23 papers at this leading venue for machine learning research.
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A New Mathematical Model to Improve AI and Machine Learning
USC Researchers combine math, graphs, and one humble little plant
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34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters
USC Viterbi New Faculty Hires 2022-2023
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Shanechi Receives the One Mind 2022 Rising Star Award
Maryam Shanechi was honored for her unique engineering approach to mental health.
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New wearable device measures the changing size of tumors below the skin
Electronically sensitive, skin-like membrane can measure changes in tumor size to the hundredth of a millimeter. It represents a new, faster and more accurate approach to screen cancer drugs.
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Legged Robots to Aid with Planetary Research
Feifei Qian is the lead researcher for a NASA grant that could significantly aid planetary explorations.
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Trojans Win Student Design Contest with Autonomous Robots that ‘Learn’
Team of USC Viterbi students places first in a design competition on edge computing
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‘Bekey Changed My Life’
The robotics pioneer’s true gift is not with machines but with people
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IEEE K-12 Education Outreach Initiative
USC faculty and students hold events to encourage careers in signal processing.
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USC Viterbi Student Creates Virtual Reality Button System
Undergraduate student Cami Gomez created a haptics-based virtual reality environment that simulates the feeling of a button clicking.
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New Grant to Help Develop “Forever Implants”
The research, led by USC Viterbi, includes collaborators from USC Keck and Stanford
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USC-Meta Center Brings Progress to AI Education and Research
The inaugural event introduced new initiatives and presented research to industry partners
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Creating Power Without Power: New USC Viterbi Technology Improves the Speed of Data Processing
Jonathan Habif and Alan Willner’s team uses light, first of its kind optical technology to make sharing data on our devices less energy intensive
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In Good Company: Paul Daniel Dapkus Joins Einstein, Curie and Viterbi as Winners of Franklin Medal
USC Viterbi Professor was honored for his groundbreaking contributions in electrical engineering
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What If AI Could Create a Custom App for Small Businesses…In Only 30 Minutes?
Apsy, led by Ph.D. candidate Tooraj Helmi, uses AI to develop inexpensive, quality apps for startups
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USC Viterbi PhD Student Wins Meta Fellowship
The two-year fellowship will support the continued advancement of AI systems.
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“The Best Educated Class In Our History”
At the 2022 commencement ceremony, undergraduates shared laughter, tears and hugs as they embark on a new journey
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“The World Impatiently Waits For You”: 1100 USC Viterbi Master’s Students Graduate
First in-person, satellite ceremonies in two years feature four-star general and former CEO of Yahoo and Verizon Media as speakers
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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USC ISI works with D-Wave to house one of the first U.S-Based Advantage™ Quantum Computers
New D-Wave Advantage system, housed at the University of Southern California-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, brings quantum system and hybrid solver access to business and research clients wanting a US-based solution.
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New Startup Brings AI to the People and Organizations
USC Viterbi researchers’ new AI platform is for everyone
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USC Viterbi-Led Team Wins NSF Expeditions in Computing Award, One of Only Two Announced This Year
Massoud Pedram will be PI for multi-university DISCoVER team focused on green computing, superconductor electronics
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Shri Narayanan Named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Prolific researcher is one of only two honored nationally for work in computer science
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8 USC Viterbi Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty has now been received by 13 USC Viterbi faculty over the past two years
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Achieving Success Through Imprecision
USC Viterbi researchers aim to build a better brain with a never-before-used approach