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The university will name the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence to honor their investment in research and innovation at the intersections of AI and health sciences, business, security and the arts. The post Mark and Mary Stevens give $200 million to power AI research across USC appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

CLASS OF 2026 - Having earned her Bachelor's in Industrial & Systems Engineering in December 2025, this USC Viterbi graduate is now crossing the finish line of her Master's in Engineering Management — and she's just getting started. The post Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

USC hosts 20th Viterbi Keynote Lecture featuring Andrew Viterbi and UC San Diego professor Paul Siegel The post 10 Times Faster, 10 Times Less Energy: Solving AI’s Memory Bottleneck With Algorithms and Coding Theory appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

CLASS OF 2026 - Graduating PhD candidate Abel Salinas used his time at USC Information Sciences Institute to develop CommonGround: an AI platform that helps organizations forecast violence and civil unrest, enabling them to proactively protect people, operations and supply chains. The post Thinking Fast and Slow: How to Turn a PhD into a Startup Incubator appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of…

CLASS OF 2026 - When Duke and Wellington Bristow cross the stage this May, they'll be completing something their father started decades ago — a family tradition of engineering that's now four members deep. The post Four Engineers, One Family: The Bristow Brothers Bring It Home at USC appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

Researchers and industry leaders across engineering, law, philosophy, business and more gathered to discuss key issues in ethical and trustworthy AI at IETC's first summit The post USC Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing Launched Inaugural Summit appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

CLASS OF 2026 - The daughter of Turkish immigrant physicians, Maui-raised Alara Berkmen is graduating from USC Viterbi with a bachelor's in Biomedical Engineering on the pre-med track, a business club she built from scratch, and a hard-won clarity about who she wants to be and why. The post From Maui to Medicine, Viterbi Helped Her Chart Her Own Path appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engi…

Her research aims to advance the state-of-the-art contextual stochastic optimization methodologies, providing tools for making smarter decisions when the future is uncertain. The post USC Viterbi’s Karmel S. Shehadeh Lands Prestigious AFOSR Grant appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

CLASS OF 2026 - The first engineer in her family, this Industrial & Systems Engineering graduate from USC Viterbi's Daniel J. Epstein Department is heading to PwC this fall — with two degrees, a passport full of band trips, and a philosophy she learned the hard way. The post From First-Gen Engineer to PwC: A Four-Year Yes Strategy appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

A new USC study shows that a tiny electrode array can restore coordinated bladder control in rats - proof of concept for a neuroprosthetic device that could transform life after spinal cord injury. The post A USC team is targeting the spinal cord to solve paralysis’ most overlooked problem appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

CLASS OF 2026 - From building LEGO airplanes as a kid to winning back-to-back AIAA regional awards and co-founding USC's Human-Powered Flight Research Team, Long Beach native Nicholas Lototsky is finishing his bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering at USC Viterbi the same way he started it: full throttle. The post Engineering Lift-Off: Four Years of Flight, Research, and Curiosity appeared first on …

BME students will present their work at the 10th World Congress of Biomechanics this summer. The post From Backhands to Breakthroughs: USC Viterbi Students Take Bold Biomechanics Research Worldwide appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

CLASS OF 2026 - For graduating USC Viterbi senior Avery Gonzales, engineering and running follow the same logic: break the system down, find inefficiencies and keep improving. That mindset has taken her from a struggling 8th grader to a Boston Marathon qualifier, and from ISE student to a future full-time role at United Airlines. The post Graduating Engineer, Boston Marathon Qualifier: She Turned…

Emilio Ferrara was interviewed about the site Agent4Science The post No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

Research by Essam Heggy was cited. The post The world has entered a ‘global water bankruptcy appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

Bistra Dilkina commented that cities far from rising seas will feel the effects of climate change, since they will have to take in millions of “climate refugees.” The post US cities mapped that will be underwater within a lifetime as sea levels rise appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

The publication wrote a profile of Professor Matarić's career including the use of robots for mental health support. The post The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

Yannis Yortsos, Andreas Molisch, Azad Madni, Amy Childress, Satyandra K. Gupta , Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Massoud Pedram and Shang-Hua Teng were all celebrated The post USC Viterbi Faculty Recognized at Academic Convocation appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

USC researchers set record for oral presentations at ICLR 2026, with key breakthroughs in language model reliability, multimodal reasoning and robotics The post USC at ICLR 2026 appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

USC biomedical engineer Keyue Shen has been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows for developing tools that measure how living cells signal and interact in real time - without destroying them. The post How Watching Living Cells Could Transform Disease Research and Treatment appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .