Are You at Risk for Diet-Related Disease? Where You Spend Your Day Plays a Role
A USC and MIT led research team finds smartphone mobility data to be a good predictor of diet and diet-related disease.
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Gratitude, Family and Legacy Celebrated in Sheryl and Yannis C. Yortsos Endowed Scholarship
USC Viterbi alum parent Tina Isaris-Nauman recently surprised Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Sheryl Yortsos with a new scholarship created in their names.
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Receives $700,000 Air Force Grant for GPU Cluster
New GPU cluster will allow the next generation of students and researchers to investigate the world of AI and machine learning as part of USC Frontiers of Computing initiative.
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Neil Siegel Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation
ISE Professor and Alumnus recognized at the White House with the highest honor for technological innovation
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Maged Dessouky Named as a 2023 INFORMS Fellow
Dessouky has been honored by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science for his outstanding contributions to the field.
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Ali Ghafelebashi awarded ITS California and California Transportation Foundation Scholarship
Ghafelebashi is a Ph.D. student in the Optimization for Data-Driven Science Research Group.
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USC at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
USC researchers present 14 papers at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), showcasing leading-edge research in robotics.
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Faculty and Students Pay Tribute to Software Engineering Pioneer Barry Boehm
Boehm is remembered as a dedicated researcher and a “wonderful advisor”, who greatly shaped the life of his students and colleagues.
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USC Viterbi-Led Startup Science of Sport Connects Kids to STEM
USC Viterbi alumnus Ricardo Valerdi teaches students STEM through the joy of sports, including partnerships with MLB and the NBA
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Epstein Department Hosts 20th Mixed Integer Programming Workshop
The workshop is a leading international event in the field of integer programming and discrete optimization.
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Phebe Vayanos Named Co-Director of USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society
Vayanos leverages operations research and artificial intelligence to help underserved and marginalized communities.
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Computer Science Student Wins Award for Diabetic Eating Disorder Research
Natalie Humber created the first scoping review for diabulimia, a potentially fatal disorder that occurs when people with Type 1 diabetes stop taking insulin to lose weight
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Six USC Viterbi Faculty Honored with NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty will boost USC research in disease modeling, groundwater systems, machine learning and robotics.
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Don’t Feel Like Waiting 5+ Hours at the ER? Meet Your New Allies.
USC Viterbi students in health systems management engineering have developed strategies to reduce hospital wait times and increase overall efficiencies.
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Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test
Can language models be trusted to reason like humans do? Are they good at making decisions? These researchers set off to find out.
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Are You More Vaccine Hesitant Than A 57-Year-Old?
Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute used machine learning and deep statistical analysis to look for answers about vaccine hesitancy.
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Carl Kesselman Honored with 2023 IEEE Internet Award
The Information Sciences Institute Fellow will receive the prestigious award.
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Wide Awake and Dreaming: USC Viterbi’s 2023 Master’s Commencement Ceremonies
The class of 2023 is “the best educated, the most representative in our history.”
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“At Heart, We’re Problem Solvers:” USC Viterbi Undergraduate Commencement 2023
This year’s ceremony at Alumni Park was headlined by alumnus and venture capitalist, Mark Stevens, who praised the power and versatility of an engineering degree
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“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”
The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.
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The Trojan Empowering Student Entrepreneurs
Sarah Hakim, ’23, helped create Trojan Marketplace, a student-run market featuring exclusively Trojan-owned small businesses.
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ISE Award Winner a Fierce Advocate for Mental Health
Claire Barbrack successfully overcame a difficult sophomore year to be named the 2023 Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Student of the Year.
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A Passion for Equity in Education Drives USC Viterbi ISE Award Winner
Janet Choi (B.S. ISE ’23) was recently honored for her research into improving access to online education for students with learning differences.
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Just Like Dad’s White T-Shirt: Trojan Engineer Unlocks Memories with Fragrance
For Aidan Niswender, B.S. ISE ’23, a COVID lockdown hobby became a passion, which could lead to a career in perfumery.
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USC Computer Scientists Are Tackling Dental Health and Birth Defects
FaceBase researchers are advancing dental, oral and craniofacial research with data.
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SIER Technologies Wins 2023 Min Family Challenge
The student startup is developing specially outfitted glasses with built-in speakers that will issue warnings to the visually impaired as they near unseen objects
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What Delivery Apps Reveal About Food Disparities in Los Angeles
The NIH National Institute of Minority Health recently honored new USC Viterbi research that harnesses online menu data to draw a detailed nutrition map of the city.
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Our Grandparents Ate Healthier Fruits and Veggies. A Trojan Engineer Seeks to Restore This.
How alumnus Andrew Johnson pushes the boundaries of agriculture with his industrial systems and engineering knowledge
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Jong-Shi Pang awarded Distinguished Professorship, USC’s Highest Honor
Pang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of operations research, optimization, and applied mathematics.
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Jong-Shi Pang included in Research.com’s Top 500 Best Scientists for 2022
Pang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of operations research, optimization, and applied mathematics.
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Renyuan Xu wins SIAM Early Career Award
Renyuan Xu, a former Oxford researcher, has won one of the highest early career honors in financial mathematics.
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USC’s Petros Ioannou, Gérard Medioni and J. Joshua Yang Elected as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The trio joins a distinguished class of 169 new inductees whose innovations have tangibly impacted society.
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USC Celebrates 20 Years of Daniel J. Epstein’s Naming Gift to Industrial and Systems Engineering
The USC Alumnus’ $25 million gift forged the rapid growth and continued excellence of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
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Engineering Transformer K-12 STEM Program Launches In L.A. Schools
ISE Sophomore, Family Help To Provide Hands-On Experiences To Young Students
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34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters
USC Viterbi New Faculty Hires 2022-2023
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Harnessing Data to Improve Food Safety and Nutrition
Abigail Horn joins the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, bringing expertise in fighting global challenges in food systems.
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New Faculty to Boost USC Strength in Optimization and Quantum Algorithms
Giacomo Nannicini, whose work spans fields as varied as map navigation and optimized building design, comes to the Epstein Department following six years at IBM Research.
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Leading Analytics Consultant Joins Epstein Department as Full-Time Teaching Faculty
Bruce Wilcox comes to USC Viterbi after a distinguished career working within top-tier consulting firms.
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Joint Appointments to Bring New Expertise in Machine Learning, Algorithm Design, and Network Design to the Epstein Department
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Bistra Dilkina and Vishal Gupta will take up joint appointments in Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC Viterbi.
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Vishal Gupta Awarded INFORMS Wagner Prize for System to Curb COVID Spread in Greece
The prize was awarded to Gupta and his collaborators for the “Eva” system, which was deployed across all Greek borders to limit the influx of asymptomatic travelers.
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Qiang Huang Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Huang is an expert in engineering-informed machine learning and data analytics for advanced manufacturing systems.
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New Academic Program for Healthcare Professionals to Lead the Urgent Redesign of America’s Healthcare Systems
Program is the First Master of Science in Health Systems Management Engineering Program on the West Coast
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The Cook Using Lessons from a Nuclear Disaster to Promote Safer Kitchens
USC Viterbi student Jose Hernandez is harnessing his industrial and systems engineering background for new research into restaurant kitchen safety culture.
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Wanda Austin Receives 2022 ISE Distinguished Alumni Award
USC’s former interim president and ex-CEO of the Aerospace Corporation won the accolade for her myriad contributions over the decades.
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USC Viterbi Research to Streamline our Robot Delivery Future
A new study into optimized symbiotic vehicles for use in warehouses and for robot deliveries has been funded by Toyota’s University Research Program.
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Student Achievements Celebrated at ISE Spring Banquet and Awards
Students, faculty and staff gathered at USC’s Town and Gown to honor the achievements of the past year.
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USC-Meta Center Brings Progress to AI Education and Research
The inaugural event introduced new initiatives and presented research to industry partners
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ISE Graduate Balances Film Composing with Advocacy for First Generation Students: Q&A
Joel Jimenez (B.S. ISE ’22) was recently awarded the 2022 USC Viterbi Community Impact Award.
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Qiang Huang Elected Fellow of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
Huang is an expert in the field of advanced manufacturing technologies.
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Where Does Vaccine Hesitancy Exist? USC AI Researchers Can Predict on the Zip Code-Level, in Real-Time
New software can outperform local and national survey data in gauging public opinions.
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“The Best Educated Class In Our History”
At the 2022 commencement ceremony, undergraduates shared laughter, tears and hugs as they embark on a new journey
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“The World Impatiently Waits For You”: 1100 USC Viterbi Master’s Students Graduate
First in-person, satellite ceremonies in two years feature four-star general and former CEO of Yahoo and Verizon Media as speakers
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The USC Badminton Star Who Wants to Make Ethical and Sustainable Shuttlecocks
USC Viterbi 2022 graduate Saket Venkatesh is harnessing his industrial and systems engineering skills to develop badminton shuttlecocks that avoid animal cruelty and cut waste.
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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Phebe Vayanos and Meisam Razaviyayn Honored at 2022 USC Viterbi Faculty and Staff Awards
The annual event celebrates the school’s achievements over the past year and recognizes the individual excellence of faculty and staff members.
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Class of 2022 Graduate Gets Thrifty in the Startup World
Product Development Engineering graduate Patricia Garcia is winning accolades for her company that allows students to thrift their collegiate gear.
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ISE and CS Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships for Research to Combat Homelessness
Bill (Yongpeng) Tang and Nathan Justin are developing tools to improve housing resource allocation to the homeless. They have recently been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships.
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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.
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Andrés Gómez Awarded Fourth National Science Foundation Grant in Five Years
The optimization expert will work on research related to spatio-temporal graphical models.
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8 USC Viterbi Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty has now been received by 13 USC Viterbi faculty over the past two years
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New 3D Printing Technique: A Game Changer for Medical Testing Devices
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a 3D printing technique to fabricate microfluidic devices for biomedical applications at a microscale not previously possible.
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Najmedin Meshkati Honored as an Inaugural Titan of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Meshkati, an expert in the field of risk reduction in complex technological systems, was recognized at The HFES February Symposium.
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USC Launches New Center for Autonomy and AI
The new center will bring together researchers and industry leaders to fuel innovation and provide hands-on learning opportunities for students.
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‘Information Is Powerful, But Only If We Can Organize It Right’ — New AI Potential Boon to Businesses
Algorithm created by USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) helps e-commerce companies better organize their products and makes it easier for customers to find what they want
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What Can Traffic Tell Us About How Viruses Spread?
A new National Institute of Health-funded project will examine Los Angeles traffic data to help us better understand the spread of COVID.
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USC Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
Fish that glow; a tailor-made microscope; a new way to catalog science. After six years, researchers produce the first snapshots of memory in a living animal.
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Meisam Razaviyayn Awarded Young Investigator Grant by Air Force Office of Scientific Research
The Assistant Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering is an expert in the area of large-scale optimization.
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USC and Meta Collaborate to establish the USC-Meta Center for Research and Education In AI and Learning
New Joint Research Center Strengthens USC Viterbi’s Commitment to Improving AI
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Startups for A Better Tomorrow
The Min Family Challenge, a business model contest to develop startups that benefit the underprivileged, held its 2021-2022 kickoff
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USC Collaboration Helps FaceBase Reach 1,000-Dataset Milestone
The data repository allows craniofacial scientists to share data, which could ultimately lead to improved care for patients with craniofacial developmental disorders.
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Workshop Series Explores the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research
USC Viterbi Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Computer Science Phebe Vayanos was one of the organizers of a recent workshop, which set out a strategic vision for researchers in the fields of AI and operations research.
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Understanding an Uncertain World Using Math
Renyuan Xu, former Oxford researcher, joins USC Viterbi, bringing expertise in probability to improve finance and COVID-19 public health policy.
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If You Can’t See Inside a Cell, Let the Math Look For You!
Researchers at USC and beyond develop a new structure for modeling the inner functions of a cell
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Neil Siegel Honored for Achievements in AI with a New Fellowship
A leader in the field of systems engineering, Siegel has now been named a 2021 Fellow by the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
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Machine Learning Method to Predict 3-D Printing Accuracy Wins at 2021 IEEE CASE in France
A research team from the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering was awarded the best conference paper for a new fabrication-aware small-sample machine learning method for 3-D printing.
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A Spirited Engineer
USC Viterbi senior Alexandra Rennie brings enthusiasm, energy, and spirit to Trojan athletics as captain of the Spirit Leaders
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Randolph Hall to Return as Director of CREATE
The USC Center studying unpredictable threats is expanding its focus to analyze and predict the risks from the most dangerous global emergencies—from terrorism to climate change.
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How a USC Student Startup Became the Industry Leader
Two former USC Viterbi students founded a 3-D printing company. In just five years it became the go-to resource for dentists.
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Angelenos Versus New Yorkers: What Do They Talk About Online?
A new novel computational social science tool detects similarities/differences of topics in online conversation
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Method to Improve 3-D Printing Output Honored by Manufacturing Conference
Industrial and systems engineering Ph.D. research led by Christopher Henson and Nathan Decker receives honorable mention from 2021 North American Manufacturing Research Conference.
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Viterbi K-12 STEM Outreach: From Molecular Modeling to Addressing Social Problems Using AI to Fighting Hate Speech
Even in the midst of the pandemic, USC Viterbi professors continued to prioritize K-12 outreach, engaging in projects aimed to foster learning and incite passion for science and engineering
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Neil Siegel Selected as a 2021 INCOSE Fellow
The systems engineering pioneer is one of five new Fellows recognized by the International Council on Systems Engineering.
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Nathanael Jo Awarded USC Discovery Prize for 2020-2021
The Master of Science in Applied Data Science graduate was supported in his research by the Epstein Institute and supervised by Phebe Vayanos and Andres Gomez.
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Commencement 2021: Engineering Grads Take Center Stage at L.A. Coliseum For First Time in 71 Years
In a return to in-person graduation, the Class of 2020 and 2021 celebrate “passage to a post-COVID new world”
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Five USC Viterbi Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
Research spans from self driving cars, virtual touch, AI for good, teaching machines commonsense and electromagnetic device design.
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Hannah Mulroe: ISE Graduating Student Q&A
Mulroe has been researching the impact of digital health interventions on the quality of care for children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Stephanie Thrift: ISE Graduating Student Q&A
Thrift has been involved with Engineers Without Borders, Women in Engineering and has worked with USC’s Center for Sustainability Solutions on plans to reduce USC’s carbon footprint.
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Allison Zubeck: ISE Graduating Student Q&A
Graduating senior, Zubeck was an Eboard member of Robogals USC and will now go on to a role in the Los Angeles office of consulting firm Protiviti.
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Caroline Johnston Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
The Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering student has been awarded the fellowship to pursue research in optimization for group decision making.
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Social Benefit Wins Min Family Challenge
The startup is creating a digital platform that brings transparency to government benefits for low-income populations and their case managers to help end cyclical homelessness and poverty
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The Return of the Viterbi Awards
After last year’s postponement because of COVID-19, the 42nd annual event celebrated honorees General (retired) Ellen Pawlikowski, alumnus Juan Perez of UPS and Geena Davis.
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Undergraduate Diana Bonilla Combines Engineering, Business, Service, and Dance
The ISE student was recently named a finalist for the prestigious Dr. John R. Hubbard Recognition Award
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How a Moving Platform for 3-D Printing Can Cut Waste and Costs
Researchers at USC Viterbi have developed a unique low-cost dynamically-controlled surface for 3-D printers that reduces waste and saves time.
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Mayank Kejriwal Recognized for Public Engagement Work
Kejriwal is a finalist in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2021 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science.
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How Robots Stay on Track in Giant Automated Warehouses
USC Viterbi-developed technology that helps robots navigate labyrinthine retail warehouses honored in international awards.
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Giving Back is Top Priority for First Generation Student
Industrial and systems engineering senior Carlos Acosta is active in a range of student organizations, as well as much-needed volunteer relief efforts for his homeland of Venezuela.
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A Passion for Transportation: ISE Students win WTS-LA Awards
Allison Fischer and Elise Adreon have been honored with Ava Doner Memorial Undergraduate Scholarships.
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USC Viterbi Professors Azad Madni and Jong-Shi Pang Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
An optimization expert who harnesses mathematics to improve industries and a leader in astronautical and systems engineering are USC Viterbi’s newest members of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Data Science Expert is ISE’s Newest Faculty Member
Victoria Stodden brings a background in statistics and law and a research focus on reproducibility to the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
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A Sweeter Way to Surprise People with Gifts
The first Surprise Cake was prototyped during Jordan Long’s time at USC Viterbi – now he’s showcasing them on “Shark Tank.”