USC researchers will have the opportunity at the new center to discover large-scale solutions to privacy-preserving machine learning. (Daily Trojan file photo) Housed in the Viterbi School of Engineering, Amazon’s data research efforts have moved to the University of Southern California to initiate the Center of Secure and Trusted Machine Learning. The partnership, announced in January, will look at customer data throughout the United States and develop research projects with the potential to bring about large-scale privacy preserving solutions. “Today, machine learning is everywhere — speech recognition, self-driving cars, web searches and even human genes research,” Provost Charles Zukoski said in an email to the