Information Sciences Institute is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computer and communications technologies. Part of the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI is one of the nation’s largest – and most successful – university-affiliated computer research institutes.

Industry

Research

Company size

201-500 employees

Headquarters

Marina del Rey, California

Type

Educational

Founded

1972

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  I just wrapped up my summer internship at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, where I worked on SPHERE Research Infrastructure, a national testbed for reproducible cybersecurity experimentation. My role involved taking published research artifacts from venues including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACSAC, NDSS, and PETS and getting them running on SPHERE so that other researchers could redeploy and verify them. It sounds straightforward. It is not. What I did not expect was that the hardest failures would be the quiet ones: scripts that report success while producing empty output files, a locale setting that silently corrupts results, or a configuration path with the wrong quotation marks that fills a disk without warning until the build fails 40 minutes later. Almost nothing announced itself as broken. Another major lesson was that testing on the machine you built on proves very little. A development node accumulates state that your installation script never had to earn. The real test is deploying on a fresh node from scratch, and that exposed gaps every single time. Reproducibility is often discussed as a research virtue. Up close, it is mostly unglamorous debugging, careful documentation, and being honest when something does not reproduce, then clearly documenting why. Thank you to Jelena Mirkovic, David Balenson, and the SPHERE Research Infrastructure team for their guidance. And thank you to my fellow interns, Allison Lu, Yizhu Wen, Prathyush Turaga, and Sonali Singh, for making a summer full of stack traces genuinely fun.

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  A great summer of research, collaboration, and discovery at USC Information Sciences Institute! As part of ISI, the SPHERE Research Infrastructure team welcomed students for the 2026 Summer Internship Program, giving 23 interns the opportunity to contribute to hands-on research in cybersecurity and privacy. This summer, interns worked on projects spanning IoT and industrial control systems, experiment automation, reusable research artifacts, and the software and operations that power the SPHERE testbed. Their work is helping strengthen SPHERE as a research infrastructure for the broader cybersecurity and privacy community. Congratulations to all of the interns on an impressive summer of research—and thank you to the SPHERE mentors and teams who helped make the experience possible. We’re excited to see what’s next for this talented group! #USCISI #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Research #Internships #SPHERE #NSF

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  That’s a wrap on the 2026 SPHERE summer internship program! This year, 23 interns worked with SPHERE, including 18 students onsite with our teams at USC Information Sciences Institute, Northeastern University, and the University of Utah, and five virtual interns. Over the summer, they made real contributions to SPHERE, working on projects ranging from IoT and industrial control systems to experiment automation, reusable research artifacts, and the software and operations that keep the testbed running. They capped off the summer by presenting their work at our 2026 SPHERE Intern Showcase. We’re grateful to all of our interns for their hard work, creativity, and enthusiasm, and to the SPHERE team members who mentored them throughout the summer. We wish them all the best in their studies, research, and whatever comes next! Their work also helps make SPHERE a more capable and useful research infrastructure for the broader cybersecurity and privacy community. We’re excited to build on their contributions as SPHERE continues to grow with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science Foundation. #SPHERE #Cybersecurity #Privacy #ResearchInfrastructure #Internships

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  The #GenesisMission just launched — and USC is leading three of its first projects. This week's Full Stack covers USC's role in the new national AI initiative, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean (interim) Gaurav Sukhatme on the state of AI education, USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Massoud Pedram redesigning the next generation of computer chips, and Bermejo-Moreno Ivan on the physics behind flight turbulence. (No word yet on an #AI fix for the Great Ohio Pickle Spill.) Four computing stories, every Thursday. 🥞 Subscribe to get it in your inbox. University of Southern California USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science USC Information Sciences Institute USC Institute for Creative Technologies USC Stevens Center for Innovation

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  $10 million to help USC engineers become founders 👏 That's the gift VIZIO founder William Wang (B.S. EE '86) and his wife, Sakura, just made to TIE Hub - USC Viterbi — one of the largest gifts ever made to an engineering school's entrepreneurship program in the U.S. The gift launches the William W. Wang Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub, building on a program that already supports 70+ student ventures a year, with just two full-time staff. The next five years' ambition: ✌ Train 2,000+ aspiring founders ✌ Help launch 100 startups "I want the kids to be proud to be an engineer," Wang said, "and be comfortable that they can take some chances and be more daring." 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gJAu7hmk Congrats to the team building this work every day: Ellis Meng, Ralph Lin, Tatum Verona, Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett, Dr. David Gerber, Trina Gregory, Denise McKenzie

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  🚀 Opening the doors to the future of space. The first-ever USC Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) Open House welcomed researchers, students, industry leaders, and government partners for an inside look at the groundbreaking work happening at SERC. From lab tours and technology demonstrations to conversations with the people driving innovation, the event showcased how collaboration is advancing the future of space exploration. SERC Director David A Barnhart, also a research professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Astronautical Engineering, shared how bringing together academia, industry, and government is accelerating innovation and preparing the next generation of space leaders. The inaugural open house highlighted SERC's growing role as a hub for cutting-edge research, workforce development, and partnerships that will help shape the future of the space economy. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/g3DRpMCY #USC #SERC #SpaceEngineering #SpaceTech #Aerospace #Innovation #Research #STEM #SpaceIndustry

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  Innovation with lasting impact starts with strong foundations. Established at the USC Information Sciences Institute, a unit within USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Stevens School of Computing and AI, in 1981, MOSIS has enabled generations of researchers, startups, and industry partners to prototype groundbreaking semiconductor technologies. Today, MOSIS 2.0 continues that mission as a cornerstone of California DREAMS, expanding access to advanced microelectronics capabilities through partnerships, like its new collaboration with leading semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries. We're pleased to see All About Circuits feature this milestone and the continued evolution of an ISI innovation that is helping strengthen the U.S. microelectronics ecosystem. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gFfgzXuB

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