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USC ISI Researchers Receive Amazon Research Awards
ISIers Greg Ver Steeg and Xiang Ren are among 82 researchers worldwide to receive the 2018 Amazon Research Awards.

Stop The Spoofing
USC ISI researcher Wael Abd-Almageed and an international research team are building enhanced biometric security technologies to thwart would-be malefactors.

USC Researchers Use AI to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer’s
USC researchers found “hidden factors” in medical data that could improve Alzheimer’s disease prediction and lead to better outcomes.

Breaking the Cycle of Victimization
ISI researchers are developing cutting-edge software to help law enforcement capture traffickers and save victims.

Computer Science Students Unleash Power of Social Web Data
As part of a new USC data science course, more than 100 master’s and PhD students unveiled their final research project posters to professors and industry members.

Can taking breaks enhance test-taking performance?
Computer scientists find a connection between our test-taking abilities and resting

USC ISI To Pilot Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence for NSF’s Largest Scientific Facilities
$3 Million grant will develop a strategic plan for a Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence

Alexa To USC: “Congratulations! You Have Been Chosen.”
The prestigious Amazon Alexa Innovation Fellowship will allow the USC Viterbi School of Engineering to infuse voice technology into several of its innovation programs.

Predicting the next Taylor Swift—with algorithms?
Want to discover the next big thing in music? A new USC study used data mining to predict what artists will hit the big-time in the next year.

Undergraduate Students From Across the Nation Join ISI for Summer of Research
Students try their hands at research at ISI as part of the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program.