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USC Center for AI in Society
Research
Los Angeles, California 573 followers
Collaborating with communities for a more just, healthy, and sustainable world.
About us
The University of Southern California Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (USC CAIS) is a joint venture between the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the Viterbi School of Engineering. Our mission is to conduct research in Artificial Intelligence to help solve the most difficult social problems facing our world. When we consider what problems to tackle, we focus our efforts on low resource communities both here in the United States and globally. We draw inspiration from the Grand Challenges of Social Work, the Grand Challenges of Engineering, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Together, they outline a set of goals which if attained would greatly benefit the wellbeing of countless persons across the world. Simultaneously, these set of goals provide important new directions for AI and social science research. Based on these goals, our initial projects focus on ending homelessness, fighting substance abuse, preventing suicide, improving access to health care, social responses to global climate change, reducing gang violence, and protecting wildlife.
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http://cais.usc.edu
External link for USC Center for AI in Society
- Industry
- Research
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- artificial intelligence, computer science, social work, public health, conservation, public safety, operations research, optimization, and machine learning
Locations
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Primary
941 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, California 90089, US
Employees at USC Center for AI in Society
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Bistra Dilkina
Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of Center on AI in Society at University of Southern California (USC) | Cornell'12 (PhD) |…
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Phebe Vayanos
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southern…
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Hannah Murray
CS PhD Student @ USC | Data Scientist
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Caroline Johnston
PhD Candidate at USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society
Updates
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🔐 Curious about how to detect if your data was used in LLM pretraining? Tomorrow at ACL 2024, Johnny Wei & Ryan Wang will present their research on using data watermarks to detect if your data was used in LLM pretraining. This method offers a strong solution for data provenance detection in AI, even with limited model access. Attend their session to learn more or visit https://lnkd.in/gvEkXtau #AI #LLM #DataProtection #TechResearch #MachineLearning #Copyright USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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🥳 🎉 Congratulations to Alyssa Donawa on her newly accepted paper in JMIR Formative Research! The study explores how Apple's ResearchKit & CareKit UIs can be adapted with minimal changes to meet the needs of older and rural cancer patients. Findings suggest that even without a co-design process, these interfaces can achieve usability comparable to industry standards, making mHealth solutions more accessible to underserved populations. This research is a significant step forward in enhancing digital health equity! Read more: https://lnkd.in/g4Mkcx2t #mHealth #DigitalHealth #HealthEquity #TechForGood USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Ming Hsieh Institute - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering JMIR Publications
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Professor Lindsay Young has presented groundbreaking research on social media discourse surrounding fatal violence against the Black transgender community. Traditional news often overlooks these tragedies, treating them as isolated incidents. By analyzing 624 tweets, Dr. Young et al. identified 16 key themes across 4 clusters: victims, responses, positioning & framing, and roots & causes. This study highlights the power of social media to capture real-time sentiment and inform more responsive policies. Stay tuned for the next steps of this study, which include a computational approach to observe if it confirms, diverges, or challenges the findings of human-centered coding. Check out Dr. Young’s presentation: https://lnkd.in/gydyFhxm. Let’s harness the power of social media to drive meaningful change! 🌐✨ USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism #ShowCAIS2023 #BlackTransLivesMatter #SocialMediaResearch #PolicyChange #TransRights
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Missed the Tech for Nature webinar on AI revolutionizing conservation efforts with Bistra Dilkina? No worries! Catch the full recording and discover how tech is optimizing planning, monitoring, & predicting extinction risks. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gaRY-vqG USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science #biodiversity #conservationtech #AI #natureconservation #techfornature #socialjustice #conservation
Tech for nature - WABSI Big issues in biodiversity webinar 25 July 2024
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CAIS Associate Director Swabha Swayamdipta recently presented a paper on using LLMs to understand language in social media posts on homelessness and suicides. Discover how large language models (LLMs) can effectively process and characterize large-scale social media conversations, shedding light on critical issues like homelessness and suicides. Learn about the innovative use of mixed human and AI annotations, significantly speeding up the process while maintaining high accuracy. Key Highlights: * Characterized 3.1M homelessness-related tweets. * Achieved rapid, high-quality annotations using GPT-4 and expert collaboration. * Demonstrated the potential of LLMs in easing the burdens on social workers and mental health professionals. Dive into the methodologies that are transforming social work and mental health support. 🔗 Check out the recording: https://lnkd.in/gufH3JVv USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science #AI #LLMs #SocialWork #MentalHealth #DataScience #TechForGood #ShowCAIS2024
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Discover methods to enhance classification tree robustness in public health & social work at Nathan Justin's #ISMP2024 presentation. Learn about mixed-integer robust optimization to improve accuracy under distribution shifts USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science https://lnkd.in/g7ZxsD2M #Optimization #MachineLearning #PublicHealth #AI
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Join panelist Bistra Dilkina for an exciting webinar hosted by The Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute on how AI is revolutionizing conservation efforts worldwide. Discover how technology is optimizing planning, monitoring, & predicting extinction risks. Register: https://ow.ly/Mmbu50SyWUb USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science #biodiversity #conservationtech #AI #natureconservation #techfornature #socialjustice #conservation
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Join us tomorrow at #IC2S2 for Eugene Jang's talk on how social media & academic research address racial health disparities. Explore the gaps between Twitter discourse and scholarly articles For more info: https://lnkd.in/gHD2T2Hw USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism #HealthDisparities #SocialMedia #SocialJustice
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Join panelist Bistra Dilkina for an exciting webinar hosted by The Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute on how AI is revolutionizing conservation efforts worldwide. Discover how technology is optimizing planning, monitoring, & predicting extinction risks. Register: https://ow.ly/Mmbu50SyWUb USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science #biodiversity #conservationtech #AI #natureconservation #techfornature #socialjustice #conservation
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