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Join us tomorrow for a fairness and bias seminar!

Erin has been an ontologist, linguist and researcher at Google for nearly a decade. In this seminar, she'll outline social, cultural, and ethical considerations for LLMs and low-resource languages.

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USC ISI - January 29
Join us on Friday for an AI seminar!

Kevin T. Greene is an Academic Research Manager at Princeton University. In this seminar, he'll highlight the importance of developing scalable context specific approaches to monitoring text-to-image platforms.

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USC ISI RetweetedCA DREAMS - January 29
In our second year of operation, hub partner @northropgrumman leads two major projects: one aims to develop gallium nitride (GaN), and the other aims to create advanced prototypes for next-generation wireless networks.

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USC ISI - January 28
The next-generation of ISI Ph.D.s: Myrl Marmarelis
 
Myrl received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in August 2024. "Academia is an individual pursuit and your research is your brand," he said.
 
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USC ISI - January 22
ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell.

In this episode, Jelena Mirkovic, a Principal Scientist at ISI, shares how pursuing work she enjoyed led her to where she is today.

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To build upon its successes and global reach, ISI actively recruits exceptional talent. We are dedicated to investing in tomorrow’s leaders, providing numerous internship, job, and program opportunities for students, as well as unique opportunities for exceptional researchers in information sciences and related fields.

ASIC/FPGA Research Engineer - Digital Design

Arlington, VA

Hybrid Eligible

Perform front-end digital design of advanced ASIC or FPGA-based prototypes addressing problems of national importance while developing novel computer architectures, RTL models, and systems-on-chip.

Transformational Computer Engineer

Arlington, VA

Hybrid Eligible

Information processing capabilities are more important than ever, including hardware architectures and systems-on-chip that can reach new heights of efficiency, security and more. Such problems of national importance are being tackled by ISI.

Computer Scientist - EDA Researcher

Arlington, VA

Hybrid Eligible

The Reconfigurable Computing Group (RCG) at ISI is a leader in disrupting and advancing the fields of front-end ASIC and FPGA design, reconfigurable architectures, and EDA tools. We are currently recruiting for an EDA Researcher to join the team.

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In 2012, the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC) became the first organization to operate a quantum annealing system outside of its manufacturer, D-Wave Systems, Inc.
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