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Our team has achieved CMMC Level 2 certification, meeting the Department of War’s latest cybersecurity standards. We are joining a select group of research institutes certified to work with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), sensitive data that falls between publicly accessible information and classified materials.
This milestone reflects our strong commitment to protecting sensitive data and supporting the Defense Industrial Base with trusted, mission-focused expertise.
This achievement strengthens ISI’s ability to advance secure research and collaboration across defense and critical technology domains.
Learn more about what this means for our research and mission: https://lnkd.in/gZpuRqni
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Imagine this:
🔹 It’s two weeks before an election.
🔹 A flood of posts appears across social networks pushing the same narrative, all reinforcing one another.
🔹 At first glance, it looks like a grassroots movement, but it isn’t real.
🔹 Behind the scenes, a network of AI “agents” writes posts, learns what works, and amplifies each other’s messages.
This isn’t sci-fi: It’s what the research by ISI's Jinyi Yi and Luca Luceri , among others, shows is technically possible now.
The implications for elections, public health, policy discussions, and whether we trust we information we see online are huge.
Read the article here. https://lnkd.in/guKrEP4g
The research was led by Pithayuth Charnsethikul, a Ph.D. student in computer science, and Jelena Mirkovic, principal scientist at ISI and research associate professor of computer science at USC.
Key takeaways:
• Most people use password managers — but few generate strong, unique passwords with them.
• Password reuse is still common because it’s easier to remember.
• Even when a premium password manager was offered for free, adoption stayed low.
💡 What this tells us: People won’t switch tools unless the benefit clearly outweighs the effort. Security has to be easy and practical.
Read about it here https://lnkd.in/gG8Y6E3c
USC Information Sciences Institute operates B-Root, one of only 13 DNS root servers on the planet. These servers are the backbone of the internet's "phone book", translating human-readable domain names into the IP addresses computers actually use.
Now, Public Interest Registry has made a gift to USC ISI in recognition of that decades-long commitment and the team's pioneering work in DNS privacy research. Read about it here: https://lnkd.in/gxZMR2f3
USC School of Advanced Computing USC Information Sciences Institute
Read about Professor Narayanan’s unique accomplishments here: https://lnkd.in/gYnGz2P5
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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 USC establishing The MOSIS Service at ISI — a silicon prototyping and low volume production service for custom and semicustom integrated circuits.
Over the past 40 years, The MOSIS Service has collaborated with over 50 US government laboratories and agencies, 800 domestic and foreign colleges and Universities, and more than 100 commercial companies, and continues to support the advancement of microelectronics.
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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.
Analog Design & Layout Engineer
Marina del Rey, CA
In Office
Seeking an engineer skilled in analog/RF and digital circuit design, and physical layout. The role involves working with MOSIS 2.0 customers, supporting USC’s tape out classes, and contributing to funded research projects in the USC ECE department.
EDA Infrastructure Engineer
USC University Park Campus
In Office
Manage and support multi-vendor EDA tool flows with a focus on digital design. Oversee cloud platforms for tool access and IP repositories, providing support to internal and external users in a collaborative, cloud-based EDA ecosystem.
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.
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