University of Pennsylvania Receives $25 Million Gift to Create Data Science Building President Amy Gutmann, alum Harlan M. Stone, and Penn Engineering Nemirovsky Family Dean Vijay … Read More ›
Author: Evan Lerner
Danielle Bassett Receives New Scholarly Chair Danielle Bassett Danielle Bassett has been named the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering. Dr. Bassett is a Professor … Read More ›
To Improve Algorithms, Embed Human Principles Into Code ‘The Ethical Algorithm,’ a new book from computer scientists Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, describes the social challenges … Read More ›
Using Systems Engineering to Design a ‘Masterpiece Spreadsheet’ For Sustaining Human Life in Space Connor Anton poses in front of a Saturn V rocket at NASA’s … Read More ›
The Atlantic Profiles Penn Research on Twitter and Mental Health Word clouds with the kind of language the researchers’ algorithms predicted would be more frequently posted … Read More ›
After President’s Innovation Prize, InstaHub has Even More Spark Winner Michael Wong co-founded the energy-saving start-up with Bioengineering graduate student Dayo Adewole Michael Wong was awarded a … Read More ›
César de la Fuente’s Antibiotic Resistance Research featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer César de la Fuente César de la Fuente, assistant professor in the Perelman School … Read More ›
Robots to the Rescue Penn researchers created a fleet of robots to navigate unknown underground environments as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Subterranean … Read More ›
Algorithms, the digital decision-making tools at the core of some of the most successful and powerful technologies of the modern era, don’t come to conclusions … Read More ›
Russell Composto Receives New Scholarly Chair Russell Composto Russell Composto has been named the Howell Family Faculty Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied … Read More ›