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Author: Melissa Pappas

In the News, Research + Innovation

Nathan Wei on Renewable Energy, Fluid Mechanics and the Shaping of Humble Engineers

With a research career dedicated to atmospheric wind and fluid mechanics, Nathan Wei, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), takes his endeavors … Read More ›

Posted on September 24, 2024September 24, 2024
Honors + Awards, In the News

Rajeev Alur Receives the 2024 Donald E. Knuth Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Foundations of Computer Science

Rajeev Alur, Zisman Family Professor in Computer and Information Science (CIS) and the Founding Director of the ASSET Center for safe and trustworthy AI-enabled systems, … Read More ›

Posted on September 19, 2024September 16, 2024
In the News, Research + Innovation

Preparing the Next Generation of Engineers to Solve the World’s Energy and Sustainability Problems

Lorena Grundy, Penn Engineering’s new Practice Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, decided she wanted to be an engineer to make a difference in … Read More ›

Posted on September 10, 2024September 9, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

Liang Feng Receives Experimental Physics Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Liang Feng, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the recipient of a $1.25 million award from the Gordon … Read More ›

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024
Honors + Awards, In the News

Atomic Engineer and Research Guide, Dawn Bonnell Elected to American Philosophical Society

As the Senior Vice Provost for Research at Penn, Dawn Bonnell, Henry Robinson Towne Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, forges paths that allow Penn … Read More ›

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024
In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Detecting Machine-Generated Text: An Arms Race With the Advancements of Large Language Models

Machine-generated text has been fooling humans for the last four years. Since the release of GPT-2 in 2019, large language model (LLM) tools have gotten … Read More ›

Posted on August 12, 2024August 16, 2024
In the News, Research + Innovation

Pushing the Limits of Scientific Discovery with Machine Learning

What if scientists and policy-makers could automate and optimize the filtering of the massive amount of data available across each system they interact with to … Read More ›

Posted on July 30, 2024July 23, 2024
Academics, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

2024 CAREER Award Recipient: Flavia Vitale

Neurological disorders such as epilepsy, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s and certain forms of dementia are the leading cause of disability and second-leading cause of disease worldwide. These … Read More ›

Posted on July 24, 2024July 23, 2024
Research + Innovation

Measuring Chaos: Using Machine Learning to Satisfy Our Need to Know

How do we measure chaos and why would we want to? Together, Penn engineers Dani S. Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in Bioengineering and in … Read More ›

Posted on July 22, 2024July 16, 2024
Academics, Research + Innovation

Shedding Light on Cellular Metabolism to Fight Disease

Enamored by the chemical processes of life, Yihui Shen, J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Bioengineering, started her research career as … Read More ›

Posted on July 15, 2024July 15, 2024

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