A cochlear implant helped Ray Goldsworthy regain his hearing. Now, he’ll use his research — and a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health — to help others with implants connect to music.
AI systems like natural language generation are only as good as the data that trains them, and USC Viterbi experts want to uncover why and how that data can be biased against women and minorities.
A $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health will help USC Dornsife’s Assal Habibi advance her studies into how musical training boosts childhood brain development.
Gianluca Lazzi of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Neil Siegel of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
In oceans and lakes across the country, tiny organisms create big problems.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health — the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research — was $68 million last year, a substantial increase from $13 million in 2015.
Do you feel like everyone else is more popular than you are? A researcher at the USC Information Sciences Institute explains the concept of the “friendship paradox.”
Researchers compared feathers from 21 bird species to learn from their biological architecture and potentially apply that knowledge to modern technology.
Researchers at the USC Viterbi Center for Advanced Manufacturing have reduced robot path planning through complex workspaces from minutes to seconds with minimal human input.
The USC scientists join 36 other faculty members as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
According to a team of USC computer scientists, showing robots “tough love” can help them succeed at new tasks.
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy will launch a training program in all 50 states to prepare election officials for digital attacks.
USC researchers’ economic analysis shows the enormous benefits of treating wet age-related macular degeneration.
A $1.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will help USC build a foundation in the burgeoning field of transfer learning.
As a USC Viterbi PhD student, Lt. Col. Ashok Deb is training to combat deep fakes while teaching students about cyber threats.
As USC celebrates Military Appreciation Week, veteran Kevin Moran explains how he wants to use his engineering skills to make the world a better place.
A team of computer scientists and psychologists teamed up to investigate how listening to music impacts how we act, feel and think.
A team led by USC Viterbi’s Adam Smith has found that purified water returned to Southern California aquifers for storage and reuse blends with antibiotic-resistant bacteria already found in the aquifer.
Wellsayer, an app developed by an entrepreneurial USC Gould student, focuses on well-being by helping users schedule and manage relationships.
While living in Saigon, Kyle Le was asked to find someone’s long-long sister. He filmed the phone reunion, which started him down a path to YouTube fame and now a master’s in digital social media from USC Annenberg.
Researchers found that 64% of teens using flavored e-cigs were still vaping six months later, compared to 43% who used more traditional flavors.
Professor Thomas Lozito’s lab at USC compares limb and tail regeneration in lizards and salamanders and ponders its application in humans.
A researcher at USC’s Information Sciences Institute explains how social networks further decrease the distance between ourselves and others.
Geology researchers at USC Dornsife have found evidence that rivers can carry fresh wood from far inland to deep in the ocean.