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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
Eco Journey, an app developed by Penn Engineering CIS student Rena Li.
Honors + Awards, Students

Rena Li (CIS’27) Wins at 2024 Apple Swift Student Challenge

Rena Li, a sophomore in Computer and Information Science in Penn Engineering, is a winner of the 2024 Apple Swift Student Challenge after developing Eco … Read More ›

Posted on September 17, 2024November 6, 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
Daniel Fesbach, a Ph.D. student, holds an origami robot
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Unfolding the Next Generation of Robots: GRASP Researchers Win Award for Kinegami

Researchers in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania are developing an algorithm for designing functioning robots through … Read More ›

Posted on July 29, 2024July 29, 2024
Team Current Care (Andrew Lee, Antranig Baghdassarian, Johnson Liu, Leah Lackey, Brianna Leung, and Justin Liu), took home the $3,000 Grand Prize in the Cornell Hackathon.
Honors + Awards

Penn ADAPT “Hacks” Bedsores, Wins Prize

Brianna Leung, a rising senior majoring in Bioengineering and minoring in Neuroscience and Healthcare Management at the University of Pennsylvania, led a diverse team of … Read More ›

Posted on July 25, 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
Alison Pouch
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Alison Pouch Wins 2024 Cardiac Center Innovation Award

Congratulations to Alison Pouch, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and in Radiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, on … Read More ›

Posted on July 16, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

Cynthia Sung Receives Army Early Career Award to Make Robots Move Like Animals

Inspired by the variety of muscles that control movement in animals, Cynthia Sung, Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) … Read More ›

Posted on June 14, 2024June 11, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News

Six Interdisciplinary Projects Receive Support from ASSET Center Seed Grants in Trustworthy AI Research for Medicine

The ASSET Center at Penn Engineering aims to make AI-enabled systems more “safe, explainable and trustworthy.” AI can have a transformative impact on the broad … Read More ›

Posted on June 6, 2024July 17, 2024

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