Artificial Intelligence and Social Work

AI for social good.

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Register by April 4th

Join us for a daylong, interdisciplinary symposium featuring student and faculty presentations related to AI for social good.  Find our schedule and registration information  for ShowCAIS 2025 here.


Want to know what ShowCAIS is all about?  Read about last year’s event here, or watch the oral presentations via our YouTube channel below.  Over 80 presentations representing 9 USC schools showcased student and faculty AI for social good projects.

Meet Our Leadership

Bistra Dilkina
(Director)

Computer Science
Areas: Combinatorial Optimizations, Machine Learning, Sustainable Development

Eric Rice
(Director)

Social Work
Areas: Network Science, Community-based Research, Homelessness

Phebe Vayanos
(Director)

Industrial & Systems Engineering
Areas: Robustness, Interpretability, and Fairness, Public Policy, Homelessness

Ajitesh Srivastava
(Associate Director)

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas: Graph Machine Learning, Mathematical Modeling, Public Health

Swabha Swayamdipta
(Associate Director)

Computer Science
Areas: Applying language models for societal good

Lindsay Young
(Associate Director)

Communication
Areas: Network Science, Digital Epidemiology, Health Disparities 

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