Our Research Areas

Workflow Management Systems for Science
Machine Learning for Science
Enhancing National Cyberinfrastructure
Modeling and Simulation of distributed computing systems

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Seminars, Presentations, Research Outcomes...

Job: Postdoctoral Fellow

The USC Information Sciences Institute’s Science Automation Group (SciTech) is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow with a Ph.D. degree in computer science.

Tue, Aug 29, 2023

Seminar: A Federated Learning Framework for IoT: Application to Industry 4.0

Predictive maintenance aims at anticipating the failures of industrial equipment to allow an early scheduling of corrective actions. Such an approach to maintenance is based on a detailed analysis that considers the...

Wed, Apr 12, 2023

Scitech at eScience22

The Pegasus (SciTech) group actively participated in several events and presented talks in workshops, posters, and presented papers at eScience 2022.

Sun, Sep 11, 2022

New Hire Spotlight: Zaiyan Alam

Fall 2021 USC Computer Science Masters graduate, Zaiyan Alam tells the SciTech Group a little bit about himself

Wed, May 18, 2022

New Hire Spotlight: Shobana Chandrasekaran

Graduate Student Researcher Shobana Chandrasekaran, intoduction to the SciTech Group

Mon, May 16, 2022

Student Researcher Spotlight: Shubham Nagarkar

Fall 2021 USC Computer Science Masters graduate, Shubham Nagarkar talks about his experiences as a student researcher in the SciTech Group.

Wed, Jan 05, 2022

Research Projects

Featured Research Projects

PosEiDon: Platform for Explainable Distributed Infrastructure
PosEiDon aims to advance the knowledge of how simulation and machine learning (ML) methodologies can be harnessed and amplified to...
CI CoE: CI Compass: An NSF Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Center of Excellence for Navigating the Major Facilities Data Lifecycle
CI Compass provides expertise and active support to cyberinfrastructure practitioners at NSF Major Facilities in order to accelerate the data...
Pegasus: Automating Compute and Data Intensive Science
The Pegasus project encompasses a set of technologies that help workflow-based applications execute in a number of different environments including...
Panorama 360: Performance Data Capture and Analysis for End-to-end Scientific Workflows
Provide a resource for the collection, analysis, and sharing of performance data about end-to-end scientific workflows executing on DOE facilities....
WRENCH: Simulation-driven Evaluation of Cyberinfrastructure Systems
WRENCH enables novel avenues for scientific workflow use, research, development, and education in the context of large-scale scientific computations and...
Dynamo: Delivering a Dynamic Network-Centric Platform for Data-Driven Science
Coupled with innovations in network-aware workflow management, DyNamo will bridge a crucial gap between data-driven, observational science workflows and novel...
RobustScience: A Community Roadmap to Robust Science in High-throughput Applications
The project recruits a cross-disciplinary community working together in three virtual mini-workshops called virtual world cafes to define, design, implement,...