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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 18/09/2025

🚀 Curious about the future of tech? Come tour USC’s Information Sciences Institute during #LATechWeek! 🗓️ Oct 14 • 10:30 AM | Marina del Rey ❄️ Quantum computer colder than space 🛰️ Small satellites + docking tech tested on the ISS 🛡️ Cybersecurity testbeds shaping the future RSVP 👉 techweek.isi.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 29/07/2025

ISI research reveals the Susceptibility Paradox: your friends are more influenceable than you are! This award-winning work at #ICWSM2025 sheds light on why trends & misinformation catch on online. Read more: bit.ly/45aq02q #SocialMedia @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu @csatusc.bsky.social

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 29/07/2025

Ten ISI papers are being presented in Vienna this week at #ACL2025! From #AI teaching and safety to authorship and mime, our researchers are pushing #NLP forward. bit.ly/454O2vt @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 22/07/2025

New research by ISI’s Mayank Kejriwal (Daniel J. Epstein Dept. of ISE) shows male ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) students are 3x more likely to drink than females. Read more: bit.ly/4o1kM1t #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu @universitypress.cambridge.org

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 19/07/2025

Wrapped up the AI Index panel with rooftop views and great company! Thanks to everyone who joined us for some sunshine and refreshments after a packed afternoon discussing the most critical trends in AI. Read @stanfordhai.bsky.social's 2025 AI Index Report: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 18/07/2025

Packed room for today’s AI Index event! Co-hosted by @stanfordhai.bsky.social and USC ISI. We had a fascinating panel featuring Ray Perrault, Yolanda Gil, Karl Jacob, Karina Montilla Edmonds, and moderator Vanessa Parli. Thanks for joining us! 🔗 More about the AI Index: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 09/07/2025

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. ⁠ In this episode, Steve Crago, Associate Director at ISI, shares his experiences in how preparation and luck relate to success. ⁠ Listen here: bit.ly/44Velp6

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 07/07/2025

🚨 New research from ISI, @annenberg.usc.edu & @viterbischool.usc.edu tracks real-time impact of #AI on #jobs. Some roles (like software engineer, maintenance tech) are seeing high exposure; others (HR, legal) much less. But more AI doesn’t always mean more pay. Full story 👉 bit.ly/4nxulFf @usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 01/07/2025

Join us tomorrow for a cybersecurity seminar w/ Jade Sheffley, a Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst’s SPIN lab, introducing CensorLab, a new emulation platform for studying and testing tools to fight Internet censorship. More info here --> bit.ly/3I7q6ji

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 26/06/2025

Big news from #ICWSM2025! "The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence” by @luceriluc.bsky.social, @jinyiye.bsky.social, Julie Jiang & @emilioferrara.bsky.social was named a Top 5 Paper & won Best Paper Honorable Mention! 👏 Congrats to all!

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 26/06/2025

New ISI study looked @ 3.5M tweets abt abortion. Liberals & conservatives used different arguments but matched each other’s hostility. One place they overlapped: talking about exceptions related to health & safety Read more: 🔗: bit.ly/44kEJHE #AbortionDebate #Polarization #AI #ICWSM

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 25/06/2025

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. ⁠ In this episode, Terry Benzel, the Associate Director of ISI, discusses discusses why fostering connection and communication is so vital to teamwork.⁠ ⁠ Listen here: bit.ly/4li1bI8

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 23/06/2025

📢 You are invited: AI Index on July 17, 2025 at 4PM Location: USC Information Sciences Institute in Los Angeles PANEL AND NETWORKING EVENT Hosted by Stanford AI Index and ISI 📅 REGISTER NOW: lnkd.in/gNEfEqD9

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 23/06/2025

🇩🇰 Catch our work in Copenhagen this week! From #AI & labor to #TikTok in crises, #ISI researchers are presenting 11 papers at #ICWSM25, all asking the question: how do online systems shape our lives? More here --> bit.ly/3ZLxfMi @icwsm.bsky.social @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 17/06/2025

Joe Kemp retired last week after 42 years at ISI. He started as a computer operator and spent the last three decades supporting the Networking and Cybersecurity Division. A steady, generous presence. Congrats on your retirement, Joe! You'll be missed!

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 13/06/2025

An international team of astronomers, using a neural network trained on millions of synthetic black hole simulations and data from the Event Horizon Telescope, has uncovered new insights—thanks to advanced computational support from ISI. Read the story: bit.ly/44e5AGf

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 11/06/2025

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. ⁠ In this episode, Craig Knoblock, the Keston Executive Director of ISI, discusses the differences between running a company and a research institute.⁠ ⁠ Listen here: bit.ly/43Xspg4

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 10/06/2025

An ISI study led by Principal Scientist Fred Morstatter found nearly 40% of AI “facts” contain bias, a stat cited in this new piece on Hirundo, a startup tackling AI hallucinations with machine unlearning. ISI research is making waves! 🔗 Story here: bit.ly/43VLnng 🔗 Even more here: bit.ly/4e20EaW

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 04/06/2025

It was a pleasure to host Visa leadership at USC ISI's Quantum Computing Center (QCC), where we house our D-Wave Advantage quantum computer. Thank you for engaging with our quantum computing research and discussing quantum’s future in finance, cryptography, and beyond.

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 04/06/2025

Great first day at the FaceBase 2025 Community Forum, hosted at USC’s Information Sciences Institute! The sessions focused on integrating clinical tools and #AI into #craniofacial pain research, featuring work from USC and UCSF, and poster presentations. @viterbischool.usc.edu @usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 28/05/2025

ISI researchers used Medicare & census data to find out where doctors go after med school. Grads from top schools were less likely to work in underserved areas. Full story here! bit.ly/3FD32YK @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 28/05/2025

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. In this episode, Yolanda Gil, Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives in AI and Data Science at ISI, shares why there’s reason to stay optimistic about the future. Listen here: bit.ly/4dD0ir6

Announcement for ISI/nsiders episode 14 featuring Yolanda Gil

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 27/05/2025

🧠 Can AI understand when it’s breaking the law? ISI researchers tested #LLMs on legal questions, including U.S. biological weapons #law. The results? Sometimes the models followed the rules. Sometimes they gave risky answers. Read about it here: bit.ly/4koooID

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 16/05/2025

Congratulations to the ISI Class of 2025! 🎉 Yesterday, we celebrated the remarkable accomplishments of our graduating Ph.D. and M.A. students. Wishing our graduates the very best on their next adventure. From all of us at ISI: congratulations and good luck!

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 01/05/2025

Join us tomorrow for an AI seminar! Ruolin Li is a Gabilan Assistant Professor at USC. In this seminar, she'll examine a series of representative transportation scenarios to explore how AVs can be leveraged to improve traffic efficiency and overall system performance. Join here: bit.ly/3GzD2Oi

Announcement for AI seminar on May 2 featuring Ruolin Li

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 30/04/2025

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. In this episode, Joe Barnes, a Senior Research Engineer at ISI, describes how thinking of concepts in terms of systems has extended to parts of his life outside of work. Listen here: bit.ly/4k0fq3H

Announcement for ISI/nsiders episode 12 featuring Joe Barnes

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 29/04/2025

ISI researchers are presenting 9 papers this week at #NAACL2025 on topics ranging from creativity, reasoning, human alignment, and more! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4jGOvKv @viterbischool.usc.edu @usc.edu @csatusc.bsky.social #NLP #AI

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 29/04/2025

ISI’s Luca Luceri partnered with Financial Times to uncover a coordinated online campaign influencing Canadian voters. Read about it here: bit.ly/3Sb598U @luceriluc.bsky.social @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 24/04/2025

Join us tomorrow for a NL seminar! Skyler Hallinan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at USC. He'll introduce N-Gram Coverage Attack, a membership inference attack that relies solely on text outputs from the target model, enabling attacks on completely black-box models. Join here: bit.ly/4cKP2IF

Announcement for NL seminar featuring Skyler Hallinan on April 24 at 11am

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 17/04/2025

Join us for an NL seminar today! Hao Zhu is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. In this seminar, he'll outline three foundational approaches developed to address challenges in training language agents. Join here: bit.ly/42iDI31

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 10/04/2025

Join us tomorrow for an AI seminar! Dr. Regli is a computer scientist who has focused on interdisciplinary and use-inspired problems. He'll summarize his personal views regarding AI he has developed during his decade away from academia in various forms of public service. Join here: bit.ly/4j3FcUP

Announcement for AI seminar featuring William Regli

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 08/04/2025

Join us this Thursday for an NL seminar! Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí is a Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford University. In this seminar, she'll discuss investigating the output of the modality adapter of spoken language models. Join here: bit.ly/4cmBQJL

Announcement for NL seminar on April 10th on Investigation of Intermediate Representations in Spoken Language Models

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 04/04/2025

Join us for an AI seminar! Nathan Lambert is a Senior Research Scientist and post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI. He'll present historical context on language modeling and new research with RL to forecast how the industry of language models may change in the future. Join: bit.ly/3LiIMuL

Announcement for AI seminar featuring Nathan Lambert on April 4th

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 02/04/2025

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. In this episode, Federico Spedalieri, Managing Director of the Quantum Initiative at ISI, shares why physics appealed to him from a young age. Listen to the episode here: bit.ly/42sozMn

ISI Podcast announcement featuring Federico Spedalieri

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 27/03/2025

Our next AI seminar is this Friday! Audrey Olivier is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC. In this seminar, she'll introduce enhanced algorithms based on ensembling with anchoring for approximate Bayesian learning of neural networks. Join here: bit.ly/43Zjdta

Announcement for an AI seminar on Friday March 28 with Audrey Olivier

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 27/03/2025

#Space, #Cybersecurity & #AI — SCYWAI, a 2-day workshop hosted by USC, ISI, sponsored by NSF, brought together defense leaders, engineers, investors, and researchers to tackle one urgent question: how do we secure space systems in the age of AI? 🔗 bit.ly/42sm8bN @usc.edu @viterbischool.usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 26/03/2025

Join us this Thursday for an NL seminar! Julie Kallini is a second-year Ph.D. student in CS at Stanford University. In this seminar, she'll introduce MrT5 (MergeT5), a more efficient variant of ByT5 that integrates dynamically shortens input sequence length. Join here: bit.ly/427UMYc

Announcement for NL seminar on March 27th featuring Julie Kallini

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 25/03/2025

Can #AI help us stop wildfires before they spread? Scientists at ISI are developing a novel system using deep learning & satellite imagery to detect wildfires early — esp in fire-prone areas like Southern California🌲🔥 🔗: bit.ly/4l6C7oo #Wildfires #Research @viterbischool.usc.edu @usc.edu

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USC Information Sciences Institute @isi.edu · 24/03/2025

Join CA DREAMS next Weekly Technical Seminar, this Friday, March 28th, featuring Mark Rodwell of UC Santa Barbara! He will talk on the theme: Role of InP Technologies in Next-Generation 50-300 GHz Systems. Register now, it's free and online: ca-dreams.org/events/ At 12PM PT/3PM ET - See you then!

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