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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

ISI builds a new career path for its research engineers
USC’s Information Sciences Institute has decided to offer new job positions to its research engineers to give them more opportunities for growth.

Talented early career researchers recognized again by NSF
The NSF CRII program helps outstanding researchers launch their research, consistently recognizing USC’s Information Sciences Institute junior talents.

Kristina Lerman elected an AAAI Fellow
She is the third researcher at USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute to receive the prestigious honor.

USC at the AAAI ’22 conference: 3D objects recognition, teaching robots to think on their own, finding information in any languages
New models help information detection in many languages and 3-D objects recognition, as well as robots training.

Michael Pazzani, pioneer in machine learning, joins ISI to strengthen its AI strategy
His research on explanation can’t always be explained to a ten year old, but his contribution to the machine learning field has led to very concrete innovations, from media personalization to salary predictions for athletes.