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Parting Thoughts as Eight ISI Graduate Research Assistants Earn their Doctoral Degrees 

ISI celebrated the 2024 GRA grads with cake, swag, and well wishes.

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A USC ISI research team seeks to bring together the fields of classical networking and quantum mechanical phenomena to create secure, trustworthy, and robust networks that meet increasingly critical societal needs.
 
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USC ISI - 4 hours ago
ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell.

In this episode, @hardaker , a Senior Computer Scientist at ISI, shares why he tries to learn something new every day.

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USC ISI - February 18
ISI Keston Executive Director @caknoblock is featured in this video on CriticalMAAS, a project using AI/ML to accelerate the USGS critical mineral assessment workflow—shrinking timelines from years to days.

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USC ISI - February 18
Binh Vu received his ISI Ph.D. in computer science in August 2024, and he was supervised by Craig Knoblock. "My long term goal is to form my own research team, working on important problems that can help society," Vu said.
 
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Research Engineer II

Marina del Rey, CA

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The Networking & Cybersecurity Division at ISI is looking for a Research Engineer II. Help develop technologies that tackle two high risk attack vectors for 5G communications.

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Senior Research Engineer I

Arlington, VA

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The Reconfigurable Computing Group (RCG) is a leader in disrupting and advancing the fields of front-end ASIC and FPGA design, reconfigurable architectures, and EDA tools. We are looking for a Senior Research Engineer I to help in our research efforts.

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Microelectronics Fabrication Engineer

Marina del Rey, CA

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Join the CA DREAMS team, which will play a critical role in providing access to university nanofabs and industry prototyping and production fabs in support of rapid prototyping for Government- and Industry-funded R&D projects.

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