USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a unit of USC Viterbi, is a DoD University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), sponsored by the US Army.

Playa Vista, CA
Joined January 2010
ICT Chief Science Officer Dr. William Swartout presents "Re-thinking Education in the Face of AI" at @RealAAAI Fall Symposium, Nov 6. He'll showcase how our Army Writing Enhancement tool uses AI to augment—not replace—human critical thinking. ict.usc.edu/news/dr-william-…
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Less than 1,000 days to @LA28! The brightest minds in sports gathered at USC’s Next Level Sports Conference at the Intuit Dome to discuss the future of the industry. 🔗 uscne.ws/nextlevelsport
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Want to help us research how #AugmentedReality reality annotations can improve decision-making and situational awareness? Research sessions: 75–90 mins each | Receive $40 | Email: MxR@ict.usc.edu to sign up
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ICT's Vision and Graphics Lab presented two papers #ICCV2025. Student researchers Wenbin Teng, Gonglin Chen, and Emily Jia showcased physics-informed #AI for fluid simulation from single images + adversarial diffusion distillation that accelerates 3D novel-view synthesis by 90%+
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AI reporting for duty: A new @USC_ICT tool helps soldiers strengthen their writing skills without replacing the essential role of human critical thinking. ✍️ 🔗 uscne.ws/ai-for-army
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Behind the Scenes at ICT today: USC student writer Ava Izadi interviewed David Cobbins, Creative Producer, Mixed Reality Lab (MxR), for an upcoming @USCViterbi article on his work at ICT and prior service as a @USArmy non-commissioned officer and combat medic. #USCResearch
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👇want to participate in some cool #USCResearch?
ICT #TrojanFamily Tales: Alesia Gainer, Project Leader and Project Manager, Virtual Humans Group, ICT and her daughter Claudia Egan, a marine biology junior @USCDornsife. ict.usc.edu/news/essays/ict-… @USC @USCViterbi
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ICT's researchers Wenbin Teng, Gonglin Chen, and Emily Jia are presenting their work to the international #ComputerVision community at #ICCV2025 under the guidance of Dr. Yajie Zhao, Director, Vision and Graphics Lab.
Great visit with ⁦@UCLA⁩ robotics colleagues yesterday and speaking at ⁦@UCLAMechAeroEng⁩ seminar. Thanks, ⁦@anushridixit111⁩ for inviting and hosting me.
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This week's Lamp newspaper: -AMSC transforms Civilian Education System -TRADOC inactivation marks new chapter in Army transformation -Brown delivers Powell Lecture to CGSC Class of 2026 For the full edition, visit: home.army.mil/leavenworth/11… #News #Newspaper
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David Nelson, Director of the Mixed Reality Lab at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, spoke with @DEADLINE Senior Film Reporter @mattgrobar_AL about @OpenAI #SORA2 blurring the line between the real and the unreal: deadline.com/2025/10/sora-2-…
Happening NOW: I'm live at @AUSAOrg 2025, kicking off the Annual Meeting with opening remarks. “We must change or become obsolete.” Don't miss this moment. Watch the livestream 👇 x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAjlvB…

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RT @SecArmy: At @AUSAOrg, we launched the first-ever FUZE competition: xTechDisrupt, powered by Y Combinator. Think Shark Tank, but for Sol…
Soldiers aren’t just adapting—they’re driving transformation. SecArmy Driscoll’s vision sets the stage for #AUSA2025 starting Monday. Read how empowerment and engagement are shaping the Army’s future: #ReadMore: loom.ly/G94tGsk #AUSA2025 #AUSAorg #engagement #leadership
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1st in a new series spotlighting our staff and faculty whose children are also Trojans! Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr. and his daughter, Aria Haver-Hill (M.S. Biomedical Engineering ’25 @USCViterbi @USC #TrojanFamily ict.usc.edu/news/essays/troj…
Thanks to the @USC University Communications Digital Media team for a great shoot at ICT today! Director Sean Dube, Digital Media Production Manager; Kristopher Head, Digital Media Specialist; and photojournalist Brian Van Der Burg, formerly of @latimes
Dr. Randall Hill’s 30-year research arc—from NASA tutors to virtual lieutenants—set the foundation for today’s human-centered AI at @USC_ICT. ict.usc.edu/news/essays/thre…
Dr. Gaurav Sukhatme, Director of USC’s School of Advanced Computing, discusses ICT’s role in USC’s computing initiatives in a new interview: ict.usc.edu/news/icts-role-i… #USC #ICT #Computing
Congratulations to ICT's Bin Han - co-author of the #BestPaper Award at the 2025 Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) conference.  “Steal and Smile: Impact of Emotion Regulation and Social Values on Smiles in Social Conflicts."