AI could save lives by identifying relapse risk in potential liver transplant patients
Predicting the variables that could lead to damaging alcohol use in post-surgical cases may spur lifesaving interventions, a USC study finds.
When imprecision makes for better decisions
USC Viterbi’s Wei Wu believes better understanding how the cerebellum makes decisions can lead to greatly improved micro-drone technology.
USC’s cutting-edge biometrics research receives technology-transfer government contract
Cyberattacks are increasingly sophisticated as institutions of all kinds turn to biometrics to confirm user identity. USC Information Sciences Institute researchers are on the front lines, developing systems to guard against security breaches and hacking attempts.
Could a computer ever learn the same way people and animals do?
USC Viterbi researchers and colleagues outline how robots and other machines of the future can achieve lifelong learning.
USC researchers teach robots to think, identify objects and more
At an industry-leading AI conference, USC experts lead the discussion on topics such as language learning, 3D-object recognition, thinking robots and data management.
Reimagining AI: How values-driven artificial intelligence can reshape the way we communicate
USC Annenberg faculty, students and alumni are exploring the immense potential — and the often less-obvious pitfalls — presented by such technologies as algorithms, bots and machine learning.
With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon
Reasoning and creativity challenge the USC artificial intelligence researchers who are working to improve human-centric AI.
Five Ways Artificial Intelligence Promises to Change Our Lives
USC scientists use smart machines to treat and cure disease, build safer cars and much more.
How ‘deepfaking the mind’ could help people with disabilities
USC Viterbi researchers are using the same technology that creates deepfake videos and photorealistic human faces to improve brain-computer interfaces.
How AI could help screen for autism in children
A computer adaptive test, powered by machine learning, helps clinical practitioners decide what questions to ask next in real-time based on caregivers’ previous responses.
USC Viterbi students developing AI-based Alzheimer’s diagnosis tool
The team is using machine learning tools to detect early-onset Alzheimer’s disease by examining speech patterns.
USC Viterbi professor and undergrad team up to improve AI
Combining Mercedeh Khajavikhan’s background in photonics with Haoqin Deng’s experience designing neural networks helped build a novel chip and a faster network.
Enlisting the power of AI to fight California wildfires
USC Viterbi artificial intelligence experts are helping firefighters strategize how best to plan controlled burns and manage unexpected blazes.
How Greece let in tourists and kept out COVID-19
Researchers from USC and the University of Pennsylvania collaborated with a private company CEO to help Greece do more with less and curb COVID-19’s spread when the country reopened to tourists.
Is it a horror film or a rom-com? AI can predict based solely on music
USC Viterbi’s Shrikanth Narayanan and his research group examined the role of music in film through a computational lens to determine how it affects the audience’s perception of genre.
Creating the materials of the future using machine learning
USC Viterbi master’s students harness data and combine modeling and simulations, experiments and machine learning technologies to create a new approach for materials discovery and manufacturing.
USC collaborates in $20 million effort to push new frontiers in AI and optimization
The NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization will fuse AI and mathematics to tackle tough challenges, such as food security, supply chain operations and hardware design.
Enabling the ‘imagination’ of artificial intelligence
A team of USC researchers is helping AI envision the unseen, a technique that could lead to new medicines and increased autonomous vehicle safety.
AI expert Kate Crawford maps a world of extraction and exploitation
The new USC Annenberg research professor explores the human and environmental costs of artificial intelligence.
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers using AI to decode unique cultures
Following a $2.2 million DARPA grant, researchers will use AI to better understand the social science that drives group behavior.
How AI and health care records could lead to faster and better treatments
An algorithm developed at USC Viterbi could comb through millions of electronic medical records, suggesting diagnoses and tests to improve patient outcomes and lower costs.
How to each AI decision-making skills and common sense: Play games
Jon May and his team at USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute teach artificial intelligence how to react when encountering new environments through text-based video games.
Artificial intelligence aims to outsmart the mutating coronavirus
How do you develop vaccines and therapies that keep up with the ever-changing virus that causes COVID-19? USC Viterbi engineers turned to AI.
USC and Amazon establish Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning
The center, which will be housed at USC Viterbi, will support new approaches to machine learning and AI innovation with privacy and security as priorities.