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Category: Research + Innovation

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Penn Engineering Ph.D. Students Receive Funding from Amazon to Advance Trustworthy AI

AI tools are being rapidly integrated into our daily lives, therefore their responsible development and regulation are paramount. This is the core mission of Penn … Read More ›

Posted on April 26, 2024April 27, 2024
Left to right: Hong-Huy Tran, Chrissie Jaruchotiratanasakul, Manali Mahajan (Photo Courtesy of CiPD)
Academics, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

The CiPD Partners with the Mack Institute for Innovation and Management to Develop Tooth-Brushing Robots

  The Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry (CiPD), a collaboration between Penn Engineering and Penn Dental Medicine, has partnered with Wharton’s Mack Institute for … Read More ›

Posted on April 25, 2024
Stack of the layers in the ontogenetic device.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

Illuminating the Unseen: Former Penn iGEM Team Publishes Award-Winning Optogenetic Device

For bioengineers today, light does more than illuminate microscopes. Stimulating cells with light waves, a field known as optogenetics, has opened new doors to understanding … Read More ›

Posted on April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
In the News, Research + Innovation

Episode 4 of Innovation & Impact: Exploring AI in Engineering

With AI technologies finding their way into every industry, important questions must be considered by the research community: How can deep learning help identify new … Read More ›

Posted on April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
Surbhi Goel wearing a brightly patterned blouse.
Research + Innovation

Surbhi Goel Explains How ChatGPT Actually Works

How do large language models (LLMs), which power chatbots like ChatGPT, actually work? Few are better qualified to answer this question than Surbhi Goel, Magerman … Read More ›

Posted on April 23, 2024June 2, 2025
A portrait of Ro Encarnacion, wearing a black long-sleeve top and with one hand on her hip. Her hair is in braids and she has glasses.
Research + Innovation, Students

Fighting for Algorithmic Justice: Ro Encarnación Puts Users at the Center of Her Research

For Ro Encarnación, a doctoral student in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at Penn Engineering, computers have always been a source of wonder. She still … Read More ›

Posted on April 22, 2024June 2, 2025
A portrait of Aashika Vishwanath in front of Towne Hall
Research + Innovation, Students

From Blackjack to Chatbots: Aashika Vishwanath’s AI Odyssey

Aashika Vishwanath, a sophomore in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at Penn Engineering, is well-acquainted with the rigorous demands of her coursework. “It’s about wrestling … Read More ›

Posted on April 12, 2024June 2, 2025
Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface. (Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso)
In the News, Research + Innovation

Teaching Doglike Robots to Walk on the Moon’s Dusty, Icy Surface

At an elevation of around 6,000 feet near Mount Hood, located roughly 70 miles east of Portland, an interdisciplinary team comprising members from the University … Read More ›

Posted on April 12, 2024
vortex structures colored with the Reynolds shear stress, a marker of turbulence production, which can show high regions (red) of turbulence producing motions behind the dunes and low (blue) as they flow over top.
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Uncover Universal Structure in Turbulent Air Flows Over Dune Fields

Penn Engineers have uncovered an unexpected universal pattern in how turbulent airflows behave over natural dune fields, offering insights into one of the most perplexing … Read More ›

Posted on April 11, 2024
A virtual space created by holodeck, which resembles an apartment.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Recreate Star Trek’s Holodeck Using ChatGPT and Video Game Assets

Using everyday language, users can prompt Holodeck to generate a virtually infinite variety of 3D spaces, which creates new possibilities for training robots to navigate … Read More ›

Posted on April 11, 2024June 2, 2025

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