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2025

The Hindu Business Line, July 2025: Calling for care: How AI is answering India’s maternal health crisis
Business Today, July 2025: How AI is revolutionising maternal health: A conversation with Google DeepMind’s Dr Milind Tambe
Google blog, July 2025: Making every call count: How AI is supporting mothers in India
Times of India, July 2025: Kilkari and mMitra: How Google Deepmind is helping improve maternal health
Yourstory.com, July 2025: How AI is saving lives: Google DeepMind and ARMMAN use predictive models to boost maternal health in India

2024

CNBC TV18, October 2024: NGO ARMMAN Joins Force With Google To Help Expecting & New Mothers | | N18V | CNBC TV18

October, 2024

Financial Express, August 2024: Democratising healthcare delivery: Maternal health gets an AI boost

August 5, 2024

India Today, July 2024: Restless Bandit, Google AI and NGO ARMMAN are helping save lives in India

July 26, 2024

Indian Express, July 2024: AI models help improve health communication in India: Google DeepMind’s Milind Tambe

July 23, 2024

AI Hub, March 2024: #AAAI 2024 Invited Talk: Milind Tambe — Using ML for Social Good

March 1, 2024

Harvard University News and Events, January 2024: Tambe receives AAAI award for AI for the Benefit of Humanity

January 8, 2024

2023

Harvard University News and Events, May 2023: Harvard Researchers Part of NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making

May 4, 2023

Laxmi Mittal Institute at Harvard University, February 2023: Milind Tambe Earns Prize for Outstanding Artificial Intelligence Research

February 8, 2023

Harvard University News and Events, February 2023: Milind Tambe honored by international AI society, Will receive AAAI Feigenbaum Prize at 2023 conference

February 3, 2023

AAAI News. February 2023: Milind Tambe of Harvard University and Google Research Wins 2023 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize

February 2, 2023

2022

Machine Learning for Maternal Care

November 4, 2022

Conservationists are using artificial intelligence to map out the best ways for saving threatened wildlife and resources

October 21, 2022

Teamcore Lab celebrates 27th Anniversary

September 9, 2022

These New Technologies Could Transform Wildlife Conservation

February 4, 2022

The Global Health Innovators Seminar — Prof. Milind Tambe

January 21, 2022

Wildlife Rangers Use AI to Predict Poachers’ Next Moves

January 4, 2022

2021

Teamcore’s Lily Xu Wins “Doing Good with Good OR – Student Paper Competition”

February 7, 2022

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Solve Complex Societal Problems

October 25, 2021

How we’re supporting 30 new AI for Social Good projects

July 29, 2021

PAWS: Anti-Poaching AI Predicts Where Illegal Hunters Will Show Up Next

March 19, 2021

ARMMAN scales its AI efforts to improve maternal and child health in India, with support from Google.org

February 26, 2021

AI can help reduce the risk of HIV in high-risk communities

February 19, 2021

AAAI 2021 Best papers announced, Synced review

February 4, 2021

2020

CREATE Detlof von Winterfeldt Outstanding Research Award, 2020: Professor Milind Tambe

December 26, 2020

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

December 26, 2020

Milind Tambe: matchmaking AI experts and non-profits can make the world a better place

December 26, 2020

It’s Kitchen Sink Time’: Fast, Less-Accurate Coronavirus Tests May Be Good Enough

August 7, 2020

US urged to consider cheaper, faster COVID-19 tests to contain outbreaks

August 5, 2020

Radical shift in COVID-19 testing needed to reopen schools and businesses, researchers say

August 3, 2020

America Needs to Radically Rethink Our COVID-19 Testing Approach

July 29, 2020

The New York Times: “We Made a Mistake With Masks. Now It Could Be Tests”

July 28, 2020

BBC “People fixing the world”, June 2020: How tech is tackling wildlife trafficking

June 23, 2020

10 Wonderful Examples Of Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Good

June 22, 2020

Preventing Poaching

June 16, 2020

KNX 1070, Los Angeles, News Radio Interview, May 2020 (4 minutes): What is the right strategy to limit the spread of COVID-19?

May 18, 2020

Harvard University news and Events, May 1 2020: What is the right strategy to limit the spread of COVID-19?

May 1, 2020

ABC7 WJLA interview: COVID-19 modeling

April 30, 2020

New Model Shows How Deadly Lifting Georgia’s Lockdown May Be

April 28, 2020

Model finds ‘middle ground’ for India’s lockdown exit

April 27, 2020

Coding for uncertainty increases security

February 20, 2020

A real introduction to artificial intelligence

January 8, 2020

2019

The Financial Times: Science v poachers: how tech is transforming wildlife conservation

November 28, 2019

Synced: AI In Wildlife Conservation

October 10, 2019

New Computer Science Professor Milind Tambe Aims for Social Impact

September 13, 2019

BBC: Using technology to take on poachers

August 14, 2019

AI expert Milind Tambe joins Harvard University

July 5, 2019

Who are the most-cited scholars of all time by AAAI papers?

January 18, 2019

2018

USC Annenberg Media: Artificial intelligence helps wildlife rangers combat poaching

November 1, 2018

USC Viterbi News: Research partnership awarded $2.1m for landslide prediction project

October 29, 2018

Microsoft Research Blog: Workshop yields concrete AI solutions for advancing societal good

October 10, 2018

The Indian Express: Maharashtra signs MoU with US university on artificial intelligence

October 2, 2018

USC Viterbi School of Engineering: Can AI Reduce Race Bias in Homelessness?

October 1, 2018

USC Viterbi Magazine: COPING WITH AI ANXIETY

October 1, 2018

USC Viterbi News: Chasing the Viterbi Algorithm

September 1, 2018

USC News: How artificial intelligence can help us eat better

August 6, 2018

Globe Series: Artificial Intelligence: The power is in the data

June 20, 2018

USC News: Department of Defense funds futuristic USC research in electronics and beyond

June 8, 2018

USC Viterbi School of Engineering: USC Center for AI in Society Seeks to Reduce Military Suicides

May 1, 2018

USC News: Second USC summit on ending homelessness in L.A. reports progress

April 24, 2018

USC Viterbi School of Engineering, April 11 2018: You Are What Your Friends Eat

April 11, 2018

PC Magazine: How AI Can Outsmart Criminals and Improve Society

April 9, 2018

USC Viterbi School of Engineering: AI Tool Promotes Positive Peer Groups to Tackle Substance Abuse

March 22, 2018

VentureBeat: AI could help fight the spread infectious disease around the world

March 14, 2018

HealthData Management: USC algorithm could reduce spread of infectious diseases

February 26, 2018

The Tribune: New AI system may help check TB spread in India

February 21, 2018

India Times: This Is How AI Is Helping Save Endangered Wildlife Species, By Turning Poachers Into Prey

February 16, 2018

Sciences et Avenir: Deep learning to hunt down night poachers

February 15, 2018

Digital Trends: Poachers don’t stand a chance against these A.I.-powered camera drones

February 14, 2018

USC Viterbi School of Engineering: A New Way to Fight the Spread of Infectious Diseases

February 8, 2018

EurekAlert: AI computer vision breakthrough IDs poachers in less than half a second

February 8, 2018

Daily Trojan: Center for Artificial Intelligence forms new partnership with Microsoft

January 18, 2018

IEEE Spectrum: This AI Hunts Poachers

January 6, 2018

KPFK interview with USC CAIS Co-Directors Milind Tambe and Eric Rice

January 1, 2018

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2017

Discover Magazine: ‘Predator’ Vision Drones get AI to Spot Poachers

December 30, 2017

Good Health: How AI can help prevent the spread of STIs

December 20, 2017

Huffington Post Blog: Forget Killer Robots, AI as a Tool for Social Justice

December 7, 2017

Thrive Global: The Future of AI in Solving Humanity’s Greatest Challenges

November 30, 2017

Citylab.com: How AI Could Slow the Spread of HIV

October 26, 2017

USC Viterbi School of Engineering: Meeting of the Minds

October 11, 2017

Tech Republic: Tech leaders share how Star Trek inspired them to pursue a career in technology

September 22, 2017

Venturebeat.com: AI is targeting some of the world’s biggest problems: homelessness, terrorism, and extinction

August 11, 2017

Electronics 360: AI: The New Tool for HIV Prevention Among Teens

August 9, 2017

Phys.org: Can AI prevent the spread of HIV in homeless youth?

August 8, 2017

USC.edu: How a PhD student’s algorithm brought order to a chaotic world and won him a Google Fellowship in the process.

July 18, 2017

USC News: USC researcher, and AI, give homeless youth a helping hand with HIV education

July 14, 2017

USC Viterbi Magazine, July 2017 USC Viterbi meets Game of Thrones

July 1, 2017

USC: Engineering a Better World

June 29, 2017

The Front Row, 2U: Data for Good

June 26, 2017

My Social Good News: Artificial Intelligence For The Greater Good? USC Brings In Top AI And Social Work Scholars To Explore Solutions

June 7, 2017

USC Viterbi Magazine, June 2017: Making AI a Force of Good

June 1, 2017

ACM Tech News: Spreading Awareness About HIV Among Homeless Youth Using Artificial Intelligence

May 31, 2017

xinhuanet.com: Feature: from chat to intellectual – chat robot “evolution”

May 26, 2017

financialexpress.com: How machine learning and game theory are trumping poachers

May 13, 2017

Financial Express: How machine learning and game theory are trumping poachers

May 13, 2017

USC.edu: World’s knowledge pool just got deeper

May 12, 2017

Indianexpress.com: Engineering plus X: Tech must align with other disciplines in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

April 11, 2017

Entrepreneur.com: How to Embrace AI for Enacting Humanitarian Change

April 4, 2017

Providencejournal.com: Robots, Artificial Intelligence take the stage at Brown

March 30, 2017

Vocativ.com, Mar 2, 2017: Great, A.I. Now Beats Top Poker Players Too

March 2, 2017

Mundoviolento.com, Feb 2, 2017: The use of science to combat crime

February 2, 2017

Prof. Milind Tambe on CNN Newsroom – Firm replacing workers with Artificial Intelligence

January 9, 2017

2016

Intel.com: Artificial Intelligence for Animal Lovers

December 7, 2016

Federalnewsradio.com: Meet your artificial officemate

December 7, 2016

Futurelab.assaabloy.com: Computers doing the thinking

December 5, 2016

CBIinsights.com Cybersecurity’s Next Step: Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Predict, Prevent, And Defeat Attacks

November 2, 2016

Quartz (qz.com), October 3, 2016: A combination of machine learning and game theory is being used to fight elephant poaching in Uganda

October 3, 2016

Reuters.com: Rangers try gaming technology to protect African wildlife

September 30, 2016

IEEE Spectrum: Modern Airports Offer No Easy Way Out for Panicking Crowds

September 6, 2016

LA Times: Could artificial intelligence help humanity? Two California universities think so

August 31, 2016

PR Newswire: Armorway Is Now ‘Avata Intelligence’

August 24, 2016

USC News: Artificial intelligence for a better tomorrow

August 21, 2016

Elsevire: Putting Artificial Intelligence On The Hunt For Poachers

July 1, 2016

Fast Company, June 27 2016: Putting Artificial Intelligence On The Hunt For Poachers

June 27, 2016

Government Computer News: Advanced game theory goes to work for homeland security

June 13, 2016

National Geographic: Ranger Use Artificial Intelligence to Fight Poachers

June 12, 2016

LA Times: More than boots and bullets: This app could help turn the tide on poaching

June 8, 2016

PR Newswire: Armorway Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Round Funding for Pioneering Artificial and Prescriptive Intelligence Enterprise Initiatives

June 7, 2016

Wall Street Journal: Security-Analytics Startup ArmorWay Grabs $2.5M

June 7, 2016

National Defense Magazine: Company Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Security

June 1, 2016

Collection of 30 articles: Outwitting poachers with artificial intelligence

April 22, 2016

“Outwitting poachers with artificial intelligence” featured in 30 news sources

Featured in 30 news sources, including the following

First Post
Popular Science
R&D magazine
International Business Time
Economic Times
Times of India

Silicon Republic
Gadets360
Tech2
SSLivenews
Al Journalist.com
BizRadar

Latestnews360
MyInforms
DNA India
Christian Science Monitor
Techtimes
ZMEScience

Immortal News
CIO News
Nature World News
Science World Report
News Quench
International Business Times UK

Express Computer
BigNewsNetwork
leiphone.com (Chinese)
ScienceTimes (Korean)
24 Brasil
USC News

A century ago, more than 60,000 tigers roamed the wild. Today, the worldwide estimate has dwindled to around 3,200.

Poaching is one of the main drivers of this precipitous drop. Whether killed for skins, medicine or trophy hunting, humans have pushed tigers to near-extinction. The same applies to other large animal species like elephants and rhinoceros that play unique and crucial roles in the ecosystems where they live.

RSA Conference: ARMORWAY highlighted for innovation at RSA conference

March 8, 2016

Local Government News Article, January 20, 2016: Grounding AI: Artificial Intelligence is Closer — and Less Awesome

January 20, 2016

2015

USC News: Hot tech startups get investors’ attention at ‘Real Deal @ USC’ event

November 6, 2015

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India: Can Game Theory Help Clean the Ganga? Randomized Inspection is a Case in Point

September 28, 2015

Business Wire: Big Data Software System from Armorway Uses Game Theory to Enhance Campus and Major Event Security for USC and Others

February 19, 2015

C-SPAN News Article: Researchers including Dr. Tambe speak about how their work is being used to improve homeland security

April 24, 2014

USC News: The 33rd Academic Honors Convocation lauds faculty, students

April 14, 2014

USC Viterbi School of Engineering News: Save the animals: PAWS, an ¨intelligently¨ randomized scheduling system, holds the promise to frustrate poachers in Uganda and elsewhere.

February 7, 2014

Create Homeland Security Center News: CREATE Researcher Milind Tambe Wins USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research.

February 4, 2014

The Times of India News: Mumbai taught us to expect the unexpected: LAPD

January 21, 2014

2013

LUSC Viterbi School of Engineering News: ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY NAMES MILIND TAMBE A 2013 ACM FELLOW

December 10, 2013

LA Business Journal Article: USC:ARMORWAY INC.

August 12, 2013

Federal News Radio Article: US Coast guard Testimony at House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation mentions our research on game theory for security

July 31, 2013

Government Technology Article: Counter-Insurgency Software Goes Stateside: Use of game theory by Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department

July 24, 2013

USCG: Acquisition Directorate News Article: Acquisition Update: U.S. Coast Guard Awarded the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice

April 10, 2013

USC Stevens News Article: New Startup Formed to Commercialize Patented USC Technology that uses Game Theory to Intelligently Randomize Security Patrols for Safer Airports, Borders, Municipalities and Waterways

March 13, 2013

CREATE News Article: LISTEN: CREATE Director Steve Hora Interviewed about ARMOR-PROTECT Rollout

March 6, 2013

The Maritime Executive News Article: USC Engineered Anti-Terrorism System Deployed at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

February 28, 2013

Press-Telegram News Article: Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles using USC software to beef up security

February 27, 2013

Annenberg TV News Article: USC-Developed Software Protects Ports from Terrorism

February 27, 2013

Viterbi News Article: A Safe Harbor – A Software Program Created by USC Viterbi Computer Scientist Milind Tambe Protects U.S. Ports from Terrorists

February 27, 2013

Contra Costa Times News Article: Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles using USC software to beef up security

February 27, 2013

USC Stevens Center for Innovation Newsbites Article: Six USC Research Teams Complete Startup Boot Camp and Receive Nearly $500K to Commercialize Technologies

February 5, 2013

2012

USC Trojan Family News Article: At USC, the first U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded Center of Excellence fights terrorism with game theory, computer algorithms and weapons of social science.

December 15, 2012

USC Viterbi Magazine Fall 2012 News Article: Milind Tambe and the Phantom Armies

December 15, 2012

Informs News Article: US Coast Guard, USC Win INFORMS Wagner Prize for Protecting America’s Ports, Waters from Terror Attack

November 21, 2012

Testimony by Robert S. Bray, Assistant Administrator, T.S.A. before the United States House of Representatives, Transportation Security Subcommittee, Homeland Security Committee: Testimony by Robert S. Bray

February 15, 2012

Homeland Security Today Magazine Article: Technology Developer Honored

November 1, 2010

Daily Trojan News Article: University starts fund for research collaboration

October 13, 2010

Viterbi News Article: Milind Tambe Honored for Security Research

October 4, 2010

USC News Article: New Fund Builds Research Communities

September 16, 2010

2009

Testimony of Bradley I. Buswell Under Secretary (Acting), Science and Technology Directorate, DHS, before the U.S. House Science and Technology Subcommittee, mentioning ARMOR, IRIS and GUARDS

October 27, 2009

ARMOR in House Committee Hearings: The Armor system, deployed at the Los Angeles International airport, discussed at the Congressional Committee Hearings on Homeland Security

September 1, 2008

2007

Viterbi/CREATE Collaboration on Airport Security Makes International News

October 25, 2007

Viterbi/CREATE Collaboration on Airport Security Makes International News

Viterbi grad student’s computer science PhD thesis becomes basis for CREATE-developed randomization software

Stories distributed all over the world discussed the work of team lead by Milind Tambe creating randomization software make vehicle checkpoints at airports unpredictable for observers. Tambe and his team collaborated with USC’s Department of Homeland Security-funded Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events on the project.

Examples included:

Newsweek: The Element of Surprise
To help combat the terrorism threat, officials at Los Angeles International Airport are introducing a bold new idea into their arsenal: random placement of security checkpoints. Can game theory help keep us safe?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21035785/site/newsweek/

Los Angeles Times: USC student’s computer program enlisted in security efforts at LAX
Program developed by a USC student is intended to thwart terrorists by making the frequency of searches unpredictab le.

The International Herald Tribune (Associated Press): Los Angeles International Airport uses randomization software to prevent terrorist attack
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Los-Angeles-Airport-Random-Security.php

<< Yuvá (Mumbai, India): Anti Terror Squad
Sriharikota-born researcher and his Mumbai-born professor help improve airport security in the US.

Homeland Security Today: From Routine to Random
Developed by Viterbi School of Engineering computer scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC), Calif., ARMOR aims to enhance security measures by making them totally unpredictable.
http://hstoday.us//content/view/1705/92/

Government Computer News: LAX goes reliably random
Game theory algorithm improves security by putting police on unpredictable schedules
http://www.gcn.com/print/27_3/45758-1.html

Homeland Security Daily Wire: LAX uses random numbers theory to place security check points
Using random numbers generator developed by a USC engineering student, LAX security authorities place check points and security details at random, unpredictable locations throughout the sprawling airport
http://hsdailywire.com/currentIssue.html#article4763

New Scientist: Game software could boost airport security
PLAYING games with airport security guards sounds like a bad idea, but Praveen Paruchuri of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles is trying to thwart criminals by doing just that.
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19626256.400-game-software-could-boost-airport-security.html

Times of India: Indian researcher in US makes software to boost airport security
An Indian origin researcher in the US has designed a new software, based on a game theory that could prove to be a valuable tool for law enforcement officials manning security check points at international airports.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indians_Abroad/Indian_researcher_in_US_makes_software_to_boost_airport_security/articleshow/2460214.cms

Lenta.ru: Компьютер научит полицию действовать непредсказуемо
Computer studies how to make police unpredictable.
http://lenta.ru/news/2007/10/03/police/

The story also appeared on numerous radio reports.

Disaster game to the rescue (missing article)

March 30, 2006