Essays
Finding My Place in Tech: A Summer at ICT
By Camerin Lee, USC Viterbi Computer Science student; USC President’s High Tech Scholar, and summer intern at ICT (2025) When I first came to USC to...
How ICT Answers the White House AI Action Plan
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr., Executive Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Vice Dean, Viterbi School of EngineeringOmar B. Milligan...
Ensuring Safety, Ethics, and Efficacy: Best Practices for AI Conversational Agents in Healthcare
By Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Director, MedVR Lab, ICT and Sharon Mozgai, Director, Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab [VHTL], ICT Editor’s Note:...
How Language Models Form Social Impressions (and what that reveals)
By Ala N. Tak, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Assistant, Affective Computing Group, ICT My recent paper,...
Embodied Companion AI Agents & Society
Spencer Lin is an AI & XR researcher/developer at ICT, with a passion for building embodied socially interactive AI agents. He holds both...
Lighting Precision: Building the Next Light Stage
By Stanley Lin, Cinematographer, Imaging Researcher (volunteering at the Vision & Graphics Lab on our next Light Stage) When I first visited the...
Bridging Engineering and Medicine: Improving Health Outcomes Through Wearable Technology
Aleena Imran is a dual-degree graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from USC, and was Commencement Speaker for...
HCI International Conference Accepts FIVE Papers from ICT’s Human-Centered AI Lab
BYLINE: Dr. Ning Wang, Director, Human-Centered AI Lab, USC ICT I am proud to share that the Human-Centered AI Lab at USC's Institute for Creative...
Language Models with Body Language: Advancing Gesture Selection for Virtual Humans
As part of our summer research series, spotlighting early-career scientists advancing the frontiers of human–AI interaction, we’re pleased to share...