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$1M Investment and a New Director Fuel AI for Health Innovation at ISI’s AI4Health Center

A $1M investment and a new director will propel ISI’s AI4Health center’s mission to advance AI research to tackle some of the most difficult health challenges of our time.

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USC ISI - November 13
Join us Friday for an AI seminar!

@gchochla is a 4th year PhD fellow at USC. He'll discuss experiments to measure the influence of LLM priors on their posteriors and how aggregating human judgments in subjective tasks introduces artifacts and biases.
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USC ISI - November 13
USC ISI researchers are showcasing their work at @emnlpmeeting 2024 this week! From AI-driven storytelling to tools that advance social science, their work highlights how NLP and AI innovations are making waves in both tech and society.

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ISI's mission is to advance society through pioneering research and technological innovation. We cultivate an intellectually vibrant environment where researchers are empowered to imagine bold solutions to complex problems and to develop into world-class leaders. Guided by integrity, inclusion, and a commitment to excellence, we create unprecedented capabilities that harness information to transform lives.

Research & Development

Part of the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI is a pioneer in research and development across an exceptionally wide range of advanced information processing, computer, and communications technologies.

Our broad expertise spans artificial intelligence, computational systems and technology, space engineering, informatics systems research, and networking and cybersecurity. Bridging multiple technology disciplines through both academic and industry expertise, ISI continues to shape the technologies of tomorrow.

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Centers

ISI Centers are internationally renowned for pioneering research in a multitude of areas and disciplines, with collaborations with Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and numerous other organizations. From quantum computing to global space applications, ISI Centers push forward the boundaries of innovation.

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MOSIS

In 1981, a request from DARPA led to USC establishing The MOSIS Service at ISI — a silicon prototyping and low volume production service for custom and semicustom integrated circuits.

Over the past 40 years, The MOSIS Service has collaborated with over 50 US government laboratories and agencies, 800 domestic and foreign colleges and Universities, and more than 100 commercial companies, and continues to support the advancement of microelectronics.

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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.

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Featured Job Openings

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.

Transformational Computer Engineering Researcher

Arlington, VA

Hybrid Eligible

Pursue transformational applied research while helping to invent a better and more secure future. Help research and develop new hardware solutions for problems of national importance.

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Research Engineer II

Marina del Rey, CA

Hybrid Eligible

The Networking & Cybersecurity Division at ISI is looking for a Research Engineer II. Help develop technologies that tackle two high risk attack vectors for 5G communications.

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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.

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Danny Cohen and his ISI team developed Voice over IP (VoIP) for secure communication, culminating in the first IP conference call in 1978. By 1986, they conducted the inaugural real-time multimedia teleconference.
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