The USC+Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning, established in January 2021 to support fundamental research and development of new appro

USC+Amazon Center Announces its Selected Projects for 2021-2022

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2021-07-13 17:30:09

The USC+Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning, established in January 2021 to support fundamental research and development of new approaches to machine learning (ML) privacy, security, and trustworthiness, today announced it has selected five research projects for 2021-2022.

“We had a very enthusiastic response by USC faculty for the first call for proposals for the USC+Amazon center,” said Salman Avestimehr, the inaugural director of the USC+Amazon Center, a Dean’s Professor of electrical and computer engineering, and computer science at USC, and an Amazon Scholar. “We received innovative proposals from our faculty proposing exciting research into various aspects of trustworthy machine learning. The response was so overwhelming that we decided to fund one more project than our original intention.” The following five research projects will be funded for the first year of the center:

Prem Natarajan, vice president, Alexa AI, and executive liaison for the center added, “We are delighted by the quality and diversity of the proposals from the faculty at USC. It is exciting to see this partnership gather momentum and we look forward to the advances that these research efforts will generate.”