Research News Feed

Detecting wildfires with AI
USC ISI researchers are developing a novel wildfire surveillance method using computer vision algorithms

“You want to build resilient systems because bad things can happen fundamentally”
EP. 9 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Alefiya Hussain

Mapping Volcanic Hazards with Pegasus
Researchers at ISI help tackle the computational challenges of volcanology.

“We over rely on technology but lack the resilience we need to depend on it”
EP. 8 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: David Balenson

Bridging Divides: Computer Science Sophomore Takes on Polarization at SXSW EDU 2025
Student-led research and discourse-based curriculum challenge the status quo of civics education

USC at AAAI-25
USC researchers present their latest research at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence conferences

ISI @ AAAI-25
ISI Researchers Push AI Forward in Detecting Online Influence Campaigns, Assessing Risk, and Public Service

Getting chatty
Test

“My career goal is to make difficult technology more usable”
EP. 7 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Wes Hardaker

“I tell my students to get curious, get confident, then get active”
EP. 6 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Jonathan Habif