USC Institute for Creative Technologies

10/21/2025

Thanks to the for giving us a quiet space to catch up on email, Slack and everything else while some of us were on campus today.

10/21/2025

07/17/2025

Cadet Luke Mawbey from giving his AIAD final presentation here at ICT this morning.

07/11/2025

Cadets Andrew Root and Anthony Pavlik from gave their AIAD final presentation at ICT today.

07/03/2025

Cadets Yamato Uptegrove and Joseph Politi from gave their AIAD final presentation at ICT today.

06/12/2025

Can large language models generate behavior, not just dialogue, for embodied agents—aligned with personality traits? Bin Han, PhD student, Affective Computing Lab, ICT will be presenting this research at https://ict.usc.edu/news/essays/on-crafting-personalities-with-code-iva-25/

05/26/2025

We shall remember them.

05/21/2025

Worth reading: "Facing the Future: the AI Revolution" ✍ for

As an aside....if anyone wants to interview researchers of inspiration to HBZ do DM us 👇

Suggestions:

Sharon Mozgai, Director, Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab, ICT

Dr. Leslie Saxon, Executive Director, Center for Body Computing, ICT

Dr. Ning Wang, Director, Human-Centered AI Lab, ICT

Dr. Gale Lucas, Director, Technology Evaluation Lab

Dr Yajie Zhao, Director, Vision and Graphics Lab (txt2Avatars)

Dr. Deniz Marti, AI Researcher, ICT

05/15/2025

Congratulations to our researchers!

Betül Dincer; Dr. Haiwei Chen; Tanmay Rode; Dr. Jacqueline (Lina) Brixey

04/24/2025

ICT was honored to welcome Congressman Gil Cisneros, representative for California’s 31st Congressional District, to ICT today, together with Jacob Wolak, District Director, and Robert Llewellyn, Director of Federal Relations, USC Washington. 

Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr, Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media), Executive Director, ICT, led the briefing, highlighting ICT’s commitment to national defense, followed by research demos from four of our labs: Mixed Reality / Modeling & Simulation, Geospatial Terrain, Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab, and Vision & Graphics Lab (including our Academy Award-winning Light Stage, below). 

04/02/2025