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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.

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.

“Splendid sunsets on the Marina”: USC ISI’s Class of 2022 is graduating with big dreams and fond memories
Featuring anecdotes and impactful projects of student researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI).

Dr. Ishwar K. Puri, vice president of research at USC, learns about ISI's work on AI, networking, and cybersecurity
Five Ph.D. students presented their work on fairness in job ads, translation, newsworthiness, tables in Wikidata, and vulnerability detection in programs.

USC at ICLR 2022: learning how to learn, decision making in complex environments, better forecasting models
USC researchers advance the state-of-the-art in AI and deep learning at top international conference.

USC and UA students are developing an AR interface to inform lunar astronauts of location, vitals
Finalists in NASA “SUITS Up” Next Generation Astronaut Challenge Hopes to Foster Lunar Exploration

ISI collaborates in a $10 million NSF-funded initiative on cyberinfrastructure
The goal is to establish a suite of cyberinfrastructure coordination services to support researchers from all areas of science, engineering research and education.

AI study finds that males are represented four times more than females in literature
An artificial intelligence study on female prevalence in literature finds a staggering discrepancy in female representation.

I Know What You Did on Venmo
A team led by USC ISI and Viterbi researchers has discovered millions of privacy leaks on the mobile social payments app

Shri Narayanan named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Prolific researcher is one of only two honored nationally for work in computer science