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ICT featured in the latest edition of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Magazine! Randall Hill William Swartout David Nelson Yajie Zhao Leslie Saxon

ICT’s Rong Liu, Research Engineer, within the #GeospatialTerrain Research Group, presenting AtomGS: Atomizing Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Radiance Field at the British Machine Vision Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. More here: https://lnkd.in/eSBmmA3z Rong Liu USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Interdisciplinary work FTW! Congrats to the entire University of Southern California team behind another #EMNLP2024 Outstanding Paper: "OATH-Frames: Characterizing Online Attitudes Towards Homelessness with?LLM?Assistants." Rebecca Dorn & Brihi Joshi from USC Information Sciences Institute were part of the team with Jaspreet Ranjit & Swabha Swayamdipta from USC Viterbi School of Engineering and colleagues from USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Incredible work blending AI and social science! ?? Learn more about the work ? bit.ly/3Z0rqKW & https://lnkd.in/gNi2hRBE

Psychology Pathways Project (my #NSF project) is looking for volunteer mentors with a background in Psychology that are currently working in STEM (out in industry)! Please share with colleagues and mentees that may be interested. Thanks!!

Recently in Huntsville, Alabama the HON Aprille Ericsson, Ph.D. the assistant secretary of defense for science and technology had the opportunity to visit the U.S. Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center. At DEVCOM Dr. Ericsson met with the recipients of the 2025 Applied Research for the Advancement of S&T Priorities (ARAP) Program award. The Hypersonic Infrared Target Sensing (HITS) team was selected as the recipient. The award is a three-year, $45-million project involving the collaboration of more than 50 federal scientists and engineers across the military service labs. "Investments into our military labs and facilities are imperative for the DoD to invest in technological solutions that attract and retain the future workforce,” said?Dr. Aprille Ericsson. “The ARAP funding for the HITS project will support our DoD lab researchers, graduate and postdoctoral researchers on-site and at academic partners labs, thus growing the DoD's depth in multiple emerging research areas." Dr. Ericsson also congratulated the awardees last month at a Pentagon award ceremony.

Thanks to Flavia Camargos Pereira, North America Editor, Shephard Group for writing about ICT's Center for Body Computing and its #LightningPlatform, a wearable digital health and human performance software solution. EXTRACT: "Warfighters from the US Army, Marine Corps (USMC) and Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) recently tested a wearable digital health and human performance software solution to individually measure service members’ health and enable them to?improve their performance. Named Lightning Platform, it is a cyber-secure and custom-built mobile app developed by the Center for Body Computing (CBC) at the?USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT),?in partnership with the US Army and the DoD. It can connect to a variety of body-worn sensors including Apple Watch, glucose monitors and medical-grade wearable devices enabling the platform to detect, record and display real-time and highly accurate measurements of the soldier." Full article here: https://lnkd.in/ev9FepJP [Subscription required] Leslie Saxon Randall Hill USC Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California Keck Medicine of USC

ICT is ready for Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference! Here's our briefing: https://lnkd.in/dPbGsi4G Do come and find us at Booth 2135?in the South Concourse of the Orange County Convention Center from Dec 2 - 6. Randall Hill Ryan McAlinden William Swartout Bayley Camp Allison Aptaker Meida Chen Andrew Feng Paul G. David Nelson Benjamin Nye Yajie Zhao

Cheryl Birch wrote an essay about our ICT Demo Day for Kids and Teens: https://lnkd.in/d4gQyUmx --- VIDEO CREDITS: Thanks to Director: Jennifer Stockert; Editor: Chris Fessenden Writer Cheryl Birch and ChatGPT Cheryl Birch Jennifer Stockert Christopher Fessenden

ICT’s Rong Liu, Research Engineer, within the Geospatial Terrain Research Group, is heading to Glasgow to present?AtomGS: Atomizing Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Radiance Field?at the?35th British Machine Vision Conference?(25th – 28th Nov 2024). https://lnkd.in/eSBmmA3z Rong Liu

Extremely happy and grateful to share that I’m starting a new position as a Software Developer at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, under the guidance of Dava Casoni . In this role, I’ll be focusing on both frontend and backend development for projects with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), is a research and development organization under the Naval Air Systems Command, focused on testing and evaluating air warfare systems for the United States Navy. This opportunity marks an exciting step forward in my career, allowing me to hone my technical skills while collaborating with an incredible team to turn innovative ideas into reality. I’m eager to embrace this new journey and look forward to the growth and opportunities it will bring, both personally and professionally.