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Two ISI Division Directors Named ACM Fellows for Transformative Contributions to Technology
Carl Kesselman and Craig Knoblock are among the top one percent of ACM members worldwide honored for outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology

USC ISI to Develop Translation and Information-Retrieval System for Uncommon Languages
Researchers receive $16.7 million grant to automatically translate and summarize “low-resource” language documents into English

ISI Research Director Ewa Deelman Named IEEE Fellow
Deelman has been named a 2018 Fellow for “contributions to scientific workflow management.”

ISI Computer Scientist Drives Boundary-Pushing Networking Project
Heidi Morgan is spearheading the development of infrastructure for research and education between the U.S. and Latin American countries.

ISI’s Networking Group Creates Interactive Internet Outages Heatmap
ISI researchers develop geographic internet outages map to report data related to outages around the world.

What Lies Beneath: “PipeFish” Robot Patrols City Pipes to Detect Underground Water Leaks
Supported by the Keston endowment, ISI researcher Wei-Min Shen is working to combat deterioration in LA’s aging underground water networks

ISI Spotlight: Emily Sheng, PhD candidate
Learn more about the talented people that make up ISI

Carl Kesselman of ISI and USC Viterbi to help develop a powerful national NIH Data Commons Platform
The virtual, cloud-based platform will help researchers share and manage vast amounts of data online.

One Tool to Rule Them All: ISI Postdoctoral Researcher’s Ontology Wizard Wins Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award recipient Daniel Garijo created a tool to simplify a notoriously tedious process for ontology developers.

ISI awarded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site by NSF
As a new NSF REU site, ISI will welcome top undergraduate students from across the country to explore the theme of human communication in a connected world.