Essays
Modeling Social Dynamics in Human Interaction
USC Institute for Creative Technologies is proud to announce that Kevin Hyekang Joo, PhD student in Computer Science and AI researcher at ICT under...
Animating Stillness: Physics-Informed Neural Dynamics for Fluids
By Emily Yue-Ting Jia, PhD Computer Science Student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Graduate Research Assistant, ICT Vision and Graphics Lab...
How ICT Trains AI to Understand Humans (and vice versa)
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr., Executive Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan...
Future Fiction: Between the Lines: Log in and LEAD on
BYLINE: David Nelson, Director, Mixed Reality Lab (MxR), Project Leader, Leaders Enhanced & Applied Doctrine System (LEADS), and David Cobbins,...
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Future Fiction: ShipSim: DRY RUN [2030]
Byline: David Nelson, Director, Mixed Reality (MxR) LabThey say no plan survives first contact. But that doesn’t mean you don’t plan like hell. I’m...
At the Intersection of Perception and Intelligence: Early Research in AI
By Annabelle “Belle” Hsieh, AI Researcher (intern), Intelligent Human Perception Lab, USC ICT I am an undergraduate at the University of...
Using AI to Help Students Tell Better Backstories
When a student is starting out, or heading towards their doctoral defense, knowledge alone is not enough anymore. A breakthrough in artificial...
Future Fiction: When AI tutors adapt like teammates, not textbooks
This is part of a new ICT series projecting into the Future via Fictional narratives: This story is rooted in the very real PAL3 initiative—USC...
Immersive AI for Real-World Impact
BYLINE: Dhruv Rajvansh, Master’s Student, Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Student Researcher, Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab,...