RECENT DEVELOPMENT: As many of you may have learned, on September 22, 2020, the Trump administration issued an EO on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The EO applies to federal contractors and federal grant recipients, and seeks to prohibit employment training that implicates race or sex stereotyping and alleged “divisive concepts” like unconscious bias or “white…
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The USC+CHLA Alpha Clinic is one of nine Alpha Clinics (ACs) funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) at top medical centers in California. With its AC network partners, the USC+CHLA Alpha Clinic engages patients, clinicians, researchers, community providers and community members in clinical research, education and outreach to accelerate the development and…
CONGRATULATIONS! We are happy to announce the FY21 awardees for all USC Research and Innovation (R&I) award programs. Seventy-two proposals were submitted to seven award programs, of which 33 were awarded (16 to female lead PIs) for a total of $2.9M. Details on program awardees can be found here: Core Instrumentation & Dean’s Matching Fund; Ming Hsieh; Collaboration Fund; Zumberge Diversity & Inclusion; Zumberge Individual; Zumberge Interdisciplinary Large. The Request for Proposals for the 2020 Provost’s New Strategic Directions in Research award will be announced…
CONGRATULATIONS! The USC Research and Innovation (R&I) is proud to announce the University’s support of COVID-19 research. Since March, we created multiple calls for research proposals for work on COVID-19. We received 65 proposals across 11 USC schools, with a total of 63 PIs and 97 team members; 39 USC faculty provided thoughtful volunteer peer review.…
At USC’s Department of Computer Science, we are pioneering breakthroughs in a full spectrum of topics related to AI, including machine learning, computer vision and image processing, human- robot interaction, speech and language analysis, information extraction and privacy-protection. Our researchers are working in areas where artificial intelligence has been under study for decades—like language—and where…
Established in 1999, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a Department of Defense (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), sponsored by the US Army. Harnessing Hollywood-derived creativity with academic innovation and military-domain expertise, ICT conducts award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Learning Sciences, Modeling, Simulation & Gaming,…
The Artificial Intelligence division at the USC Information Sciences Institute is one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research labs, with top researchers in all areas of AI. The division conducts research in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge graphs, scientific data analysis and discovery, multi-modal understanding, common sense representation and reasoning, computational social science,…
The Center for Generative AI and Society was founded in 2023 with the mission of understanding how the new field of generative AI is impacting society, with the additional goals of finding ways of minimizing negative impacts while enhancing positive ones. The Center currently consists of two major subgroups. The first, co-headed by Profs. Holly…
Internal Research Grants: Good news! We received a grant from funds originally allocated to Senate Strategic Planning Committees. In the face of the pandemic, the Senate proposed, and the Provost agreed, to redeploy those funds. The grant significantly expands our ability to support well-reviewed COVID-19-related research proposals of the 67 submitted to funding opportunities advertised earlier…
USC Award Programs: We received a tremendous response to the Zumberge Special Solicitation – Epidemic- & Virus-Related Research and Development Award (63 proposals received) and the Provost New Strategic Directions for Research Award (43 proposals received)! The review process is underway. Tech Transfer Working Group (TTWG): TTWG was constituted in January 2020 to provide faculty input on USC’s technology transfer practices…