Kristina prominently featured in the Washington Post Wonkblog
Kristina’s research on how the popularity of certain people can create the illusion that their positions are more commonly held than they really are receives an entertaining treatment in the Washington...
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DIG team led by Pedro Szekely receives Best Applied Paper Award at ISWC 2015
A paper describing the work of the DIG project submitted to the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, won an award for Best Applied Paper today.
View ArticleKevin and Marjanâs research prominently featured in the Washington Post...
Marian and Kevin’s work on how to create good passwords by generating easy to remember poems has been featured in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog. The article also contains a link to their system, which...
View ArticleEmilio Ferrara named one of "Top 100 Big Data Experts to Follow in 2016"
Maptive, a company specializing in data visualization, has described ISDer Emilio Ferrara as one of the 100 top big data experts to follow this year, ranking him number 28.
View ArticleBusiness Insider notes that USC was âmost accurateâ in DARPAâs 2015...
A recent article in Business Insider mentions ISI researchers’ successful participation in DARPA’s Twitter Bot Challenge.
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Congratulations Dr. Montazeri!
Niloofar Montazeri passed her Ph.D. dissertation defense on Tuesday, January 19, giving an outstanding talk on her excellent thesis entitled "Buildiing a Knowledge Base for Deep Lexical Semantics"....
View ArticleEmilio Ferrara and Kristina Lermanâs work featured in the press
Two news sites are reporting on ISD members’ work this week. The first article is about Emilio Ferrara’s work: Nautilus: "How Ebola Infected Twitter”
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Kristina Lerman's expertise relied upon for New Yorker article
A New Yorker columnist consulted Kristina to check how realistic his theory about LA billboards advertising Oscar-nominated films was....
View ArticleFarshad Kooti Wins Best Research in STEM Award at USC Graduate Research...
The USC Graduate Research Symposium is an annual event hosted by the USC Graduate Student Government (GSG). The symposium presents top research produced by USC graduate students. A panel of USC faculty...
View ArticlePostdoctoral Openings in Forecasting
The USC Information Sciences Institute seeks applicants for two Postdoctoral Researcher positions with a focus on modeling and forecasting with multivariate and heterogeneous time series data. The...
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DIG Sheds Light onto the Dark Webâs Shadows, Connects the Dots on Gun...
An article on the DIG project was published in the recent Viterbi Magazine by Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely....
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NPR reports on computer-generated poetry created by ISDers
NPR featured a sonnet submitted by Marjan GhazviniNejad, Xing Shi, Yejin Choi, and Kevin Knight of the USC Information Sciences Institute that won a competition calling for computer-generated poems to...
View ArticleTwo ISD Summer Students Recognized as this year's Director's Interns
Beginning this year, ISI has awarded the recognition of Director’s Intern to a small number of outstanding individuals participating in the summer internship program. The ISI Director’s Interns...
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Welcome to our 2016 Summer Intern and visitors
Nada Aldarrab Nada Aldarrab is a graduate student at USC, working on her thesis under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Knight. She is currently working on the decipherment of historical...
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Yolanda Gil elected AAAI President
Yolanda Gil has been elected president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the world’s premiere organization of AI researchers. A AAAI fellow since 2012, Yolanda...
View ArticleFarshad Kooti is Newest ISI Ph.D.
On July 27, 2016, Farshad Kooti executed what his advisor Kristina Lerman calls “a masterful job” of defending his dissertation, “Predicting and Modeling Human Behavioral Changes Using Digital Traces.”...
View ArticlePedro Szekely on NOVA site
ISI research lead and USC research associate professor Pedro Szekely is quoted on the PBS NOVA science show’s website about AI’s potential for disrupting sex trafficking. The September 21, 2016 NOVA...
View ArticleCongrats, Emilio!
The Complex Systems Society (CSS), which promotes development of complex systems science in and beyond Europe, has granted its junior scientific award to ISD’s Emilio Ferrara. The award recognizes...
View ArticleTerminator 2 and Craig Knoblock Feature in AI Ethics Video
The science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a mayhem-laced blockbuster that also exposed ethical issues in AI, is now 25 years old. According to a new video on the film site A.V. Club, those...
View ArticleISI Takes Laurels in Semantic Web Research
Over the past five years, ISI has captured more Best Paper awards at the two most prestigious Semantic Web conferences than any other university or industry participant. The events are the European...
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