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USC ISI - 4 minutes ago
Check out our AI seminar tomorrow!
Rajiv spent a decade as faculty at USC and then a decade building the startup Second Spectrum. In this seminar he'll discuss the path that took him from one to the other and answer questions about the journeys.
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USC ISI - 23 hours ago
Join our seminar Thursday!

Matthew Finlayson is a PhD student studying NLP at USC. He'll discuss work showing it's possible to learn a large amount of non-public information about an API-protected LLM from a relatively small number of API queries.

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USC ISI - April 23
What can we do to ensure that our AI systems cause no harm? At ISI, scientists across a range of disciplines and expertise are chipping away at the emerging question of AI safety.

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USC ISI - April 17
AI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. In this week's episode,

In this week's episode, @HJCH0 , a Research Assistant at ISI, explains why he’d consider himself a “global citizen.”

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USC ISI - April 17
Space systems are often exposed to operational threats. USC ISI researchers are building tools to solve safety problems in space operations, and creating test beds to simulate cyberattacks in space.

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Research Engineer II

Marina del Rey, CA

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The Networking & Cybersecurity Division at ISI is looking for a Research Engineer II. Help develop technologies that tackle two high risk attack vectors for 5G communications.

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Senior Research Engineer I

Arlington, VA

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The Reconfigurable Computing Group (RCG) is a leader in disrupting and advancing the fields of front-end ASIC and FPGA design, reconfigurable architectures, and EDA tools. We are looking for a Senior Research Engineer I to help in our research efforts.

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Microelectronics Fabrication Engineer

Marina del Rey, CA

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Join the CA DREAMS team, which will play a critical role in providing access to university nanofabs and industry prototyping and production fabs in support of rapid prototyping for Government- and Industry-funded R&D projects.

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