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Flagged for Being Queer
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Becca Dorn, USC/ISI
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Probing Covert Racism in Language Models Through the Lens of Dialect Prejudice
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Towards Socially Aware and Safe AI Agents
Xuhui Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University
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Rebecca Dorn is a PhD candidate at USC ISI. In this seminar, they'll explore the tendency for LLMs to inaccurately flag texts authored by gender-queer individuals as harmful based on evaluations with a novel dataset.
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Christina Chance is a 3rd year Phd student at UCLA. In this talk, she'll explore how reclaimed words from marginalized communities are disparately perceived between individuals from the communities and algorithmic systems.
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This year we DOUBLED Tech Week—75,000+ people joined across 2,000 events.
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In this episode, Elizabeth Boschee, director of ISI’s Boston office and associate director of the AI division, speaks on her hopes for AI to make lives easier.
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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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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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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.
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.
Computer Hardware PhD Researcher
Arlington, VA
Hybrid Eligible
Work with some of the best minds in the field to develop advanced computer architectures and implement designs on applied research programs from top research sponsors such as DARPA, IARPA, and the CHIPS Act.
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.
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