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USC Viterbi analytics students are creating a new, comprehensive database so the USC Trojans football team can better access the insights needed to win on the gridiron.
USC Viterbi analytics and health systems management students are creating a forecasting system with an interactive analytics dashboard that helps USC Keck Medicine professionals better anticipate future patient demand and operational needs.
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With an expanded role in NSF AI4OPT’s second phase, USC will lead AI for Optimization research, bring together a larger interdisciplinary team and host the Seth Bonder summer camp
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Applications are now open for the interdisciplinary Ph.D. certificate program at the frontier of AI for decision-making. This world-first program in Operations Research (OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) trains students doing research at the interface of the two fields.
Apply Now for the USC ORAI Ph.D. Program
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From Olympic crowds to satellite manufacturing, USC Viterbi junior Mila Mattson is driven to make complex systems work better for everyone
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USC Viterbi’s Karmel S. Shehadeh introduces a framework to help organizations better balance procurement cost, shortages, and waste under uncertainty.
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USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers trace a costly, invisible bias in AI systems back to a single factor: your address

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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringNews and Media Coverage

Mila Mattson (Photo/courtesy of Mila Mattson)
From Olympic crowds to satellite manufacturing, USC Viterbi junior Mila Mattson is driven to make complex systems work better for everyone
Carl Kesselman (Photo/USC Viterbi)
USC pioneer honored for grid-computing breakthroughs that helped reshape large-scale science and anticipated the cloud
Illustration representing artificial intelligence and mathematical optimization for complex systems. (Credit: Dall-E)
With an expanded role in NSF AI4OPT’s second phase, USC will lead AI for Optimization research, bring together a larger interdisciplinary team and host the Seth Bonder summer camp

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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on October 2nd, 2026