Through collaborations with government agencies, industry partners, and academic colleagues and students, ISI Centers and Labs cover a diverse range of disciplines. Utilizing rigorous design, modeling, and prototyping techniques, our broad capabilities facilitate the development of novel approaches to address issues in the natural and digital world.

ISI Centers and Labs are at the forefront of innovation, enabling trailblazing research to advance science, and usher in a more robust and secure technological age.

The California Defense Ready Electronics And Microdevices Superhub (DREAMS)

California DREAMS will concentrate its efforts in 5G/6G technologies and on the broader effort to establish advanced communications networks, focusing mainly on hardware. One goal of the superhub will be to accelerate the transition from invention to impact.

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Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation (SPHERE)

SPHERE will be a research infrastructure for at-scale, realistic and reproducible cybersecurity and privacy experimentation across very diverse hardware. SPHERE will facilitate novel, transformative research endeavors in cybersecurity and privacy.

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AI Research for Health

Over the past several decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has matured to be an essential tool in business and science. No longer restricted to toy problems, much AI research is now inspired by its use in a myriad of domains. As part of the new University of Southern California Silicon Beach Campus, the center on Artificial Intelligence Research for Health aims to nurture collaborations between researchers in AI and those in the health sciences.

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Analysis of Network Traffic (ANT) Lab

The ANT Lab is a research group spanning several departments at USC, and includes members from Colorado State University’s Computer Science Department and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The lab's goal is to improve the Internet by discovering new ways to understand network topology, traffic, security, use and abuse.

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Application Specific Intelligent Computing (ASIC) Lab

At the ASIC Lab, ISI scientists are working on changing the vision for computing. Researchers apply “alternate state variables,” such as electrons, photons, phonons, and magnetic spins, to deliver next-generation hardware fabrics for AI, smart sensors, smart and secure manufacturing, quantum information, and novel device integration.

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Center on Knowledge Graphs (CKG)

ISI's Center on Knowledge Graphs research group combines artificial intelligence, the semantic web, and database integration techniques to solve complex information integration problems. The CKG group leverages general research techniques across information-intensive disciplines, including medical informatics, geospatial data integration and the social Web.

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CI Compass: An NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence for Navigating the Major Facilities Data Lifecycle

CI Compass provides expertise and active support to cyberinfrastructure practitioners at NSF Major Facilities in order to accelerate the data lifecycle and ensure the integrity and effectiveness of the cyberinfrastructure upon which research and discovery depend.

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cyber DEfense Technology Experimental Research Laboratory (DeterLab)

ISI’s DeterLab emulates real-world complexity and scale necessary to evolve next generation solutions to help protect against sophisticated cyber attacks and network design vulnerabilities. The state-of-the-art scientific computing facility is a shared testbed providing a platform for research in cybersecurity and serving a broad user community, including academia, industry, and government.

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Laboratory for Quantum-Limited Information (QLIlab)

ISI’s new QLIlab is dedicated to understanding and demonstrating the fundamental physical limits for extracting information from physical signals using quantum mechanics. QLILab focuses on developing revolutionary designs for information processing systems that allow us to communicate and sense at the fundamental limits of nature, delivering capabilities in computing, communications, and sensing that are not possible using classical physics.

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USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC)

A joint effort of Lockheed Martin Corporation and the University of Southern California, QCC is one of the world’s leading computer science and engineering research entities. Utilizing a D-Wave quantum annealing system for processing, applications include Big Data analysis, classification, optimization, and machine learning, helping support breakthroughs in aerospace, medical imaging, robotics, finance, web search, bioinformatics, and other disciplines.

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Science Automation Technologies (SciTech)

The SciTech research group aims to empower the scientific community by tightening the relations between the domain scientists and current computational resources. As a result, scientists can focus on their research questions, while the group's open-source tools provide the computational foundations to seamlessly run their experiments and analyses in local and distributed resources.

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Space Engineering Research Center (SERC)

As a joint effort of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and ISI, SERC combines disruptive space R&D, hands-on education of the second-generation workforce, and industry collaboration. The only "engineering teaching hospital" of its kind within the context of a diverse research university, SERC teaches students to build, test, and fly actual spacecraft and satellites, collaborating with government labs, industry and other USC schools and departments.

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STEEL Lab

Founded in 2012, the STEEL lab comprises members that conduct cutting-edge research in cybersecurity and testbed experimentation. The lab focuses on research in network-based cyber attacks, human aspects of cybersecurity, embedded cybersecurity, and binary analysis.

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Secure and Robust Electronics Center (SURE)

SURE seeks to meet an urgent cybersecurity need: electronics hardware safety. Dedicated to creating a US center of excellence for secure hardware R&D that helps protect national security, advance industry capabilities, and ensure citizens can rely on the integrity of their own devices, researchers at SURE utilize applied research to make chips trustworthy, secure, resilient, and reliable.

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Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory (VIMAL)

VIMAL's mission is to empower students to create visual intelligence and multimedia forensics technologies to make the world a better place, one day at a time. VIMAL strives to be one of the best artificial intelligence research groups in the world, by empowering students to innovate world-class artificial intelligence algorithms, create solid engineering prototypes, and improve the quality of life of all humanity.

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