Konstantinos Psounis
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Designs AI-enabled, privacy-preserving networked and distributed systems.
Konstantinos Psounis's lab at USC works on efficient training & inference and distributed, cloud & edge systems. 16 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ECCV. 7 PhD students. 16 alumni, most often to Meta and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 25%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 16
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 1
- 1 papers2024 · T1 0
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ECCV, ICML, TMI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Efficient training & inference3 papers
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems3 papers
- ai-enabled0 papers
- privacy-preserving0 papers
- distributed systems0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- CVPR WorkshopBridging the Granularity Gap: Object-Centric Masking for Contextual Visual Learning
- in Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and PrivacyCIAPlates: Covert, Intelligent, Adversarial Attack on Automated License Plate Recognition Systems using Digital License Plates
- ICML (T1)From Shortcuts to Reasoning: Robust Post-Training of Theory of Mind with Reinforcement Learning
- TMI (T1)Med-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Medical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
- ECCV (T1)TIR-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Agentic Thinking-with-Images Reasoning
20255 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular TechnologyCATS: A framework for Cooperative Autonomy Trust & Security (opens in a new tab)
- in Proceedings of PETSEchoes of Privacy: Uncovering the Profiling Practices of Voice Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)EEE-Bench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Electrical And Electronics Engineering Benchmark
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular TechnologyOnline distributed offloading of time-sensitive vehicular tasks in edge-cloud systems (opens in a new tab)
- in Proceedings of PETSSpinML: Customized Synthetic Data Generation for Private Training of Specialized ML Models
20241 paper
- in Proceedings of AAAIEfficient Toxic Content Detection by Bootstrapping and Distilling Large Language Models
20235 papers
- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive SystemsEdgeMart: A Sustainable Networked OTT Economy on the Wireless Edge for Saving Multimedia IP Bandwidth (opens in a new tab)
- in Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (AIHADR) at ICCVFireFly: A Synthetic Dataset for Ember Detection in Wildfire
- in Proceedings of PETSHow Much Privacy Does Federated Learning with Secure Aggregation Guarantee? A. Elkordy
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingLocation Leakage in Federated Signal Maps (opens in a new tab)
- in Proceedings of PETSNo Video Left Behind: A Utility-Preserving Obfuscation Approach for YouTube Recommendations
Where alumni went16 listed, 67% to industry
Industry 8Academia 4
Most often to
- Meta
- Apple
Also to
- Cyprus University of Technology
- MIT
- Technical University of Crete
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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- Single round (Dec 15)
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