AI becomes fairer
The pandemic around the world over the last year has shed a cold, bright light on many things multiple levels of preparedness to respond; collective attitudes towards health, technology and science; and large financial and social disparities. As the world continues to navigate the covid-19 health crisis and as places begin to gradually return to work, school, travel, and recreation in some places, it is crucial to compete for priorities to equitably protect public health while ensuring privacy.
The protracted crisis has led to a rapid change in work and social behavior, as well as increased confidence in technology. It is now more critical than ever for companies, governments and society to be careful when applying technology and handling personal information. The widespread and rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) shows how they adapt to technologies that may tend to interact with humans and social organizations in dangerous or inappropriate ways.
Graduating senior founds two humanitarian nonprofits during her time at USC
Inspired by her experience at a refugee camp in Greece, biological sciences and global medicine student Lauren Yen launches organizations that improve health care documentation and shelter conditions for vulnerable populations.
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May 5, 2021
Graduating senior Lauren Yen founded two nonprofits following overseas service learning experiences at refugee camps. (Photo: Courtesy of Lauren Yen.)
In high school, Lauren Yen would often help out at her mother’s internal medicine clinic, tidying up documentation and converting paper medical records into electronic ones. When she traveled to a refugee camp in Greece in February 2020, she was struck by how health workers struggled to create a centralized medical recordkeeping system, especially as they relied on paper-based notes for most of their documentation. When papers went missing or health workers didn’t have the records on hand, patients suff
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Photonics research harnesses power of light
In a lab at USC, Mercedeh Khajavikhan engineers new structures that change the shape of light as it is transported. She creates groundbreaking structures in a field of science called photonics. Her work is important because it affects many things used in daily life, including lasers for imaging and sensing, fiber optic cables for advanced communications and computer chips to increase processing capabilities to a level earlier generations couldn’t have dreamed of.
We caught up to Khajavikhan, the IBM Early Career Chair and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, to talk about the project her team is working on.