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- July 29
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.

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- July 28
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.


- July 24
Thoughtful insights from Yolanda Gil, Principal Scientist & Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives in AI and Data Science at ISI, featured in the LA Times story on the Trump administration's new AI Action Plan:



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Trump is undermining his own 'action plan' for AI, experts say
- July 22
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.

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- July 18
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.

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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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In 1981, a request from DARPA led to º£½Ç´óÉñ establishing The MOSIS Service at ISI — a silicon prototyping and low volume production service for custom and semicustom integrated circuits.

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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.

Did you know

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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