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Research + Innovation

Building Robots that Learn: Pratik Chaudhari Investigates the Underpinnings of AI

Growing up, Pratik Chaudhari, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) and member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, just … Read More ›

Posted on April 4, 2024June 2, 2025
Academics, Research + Innovation

Chris Callison-Burch Talks Empowering Tomorrow’s AI Engineers

Through programs like the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence, the first Ivy League undergraduate degree of its kind, Penn Engineering is addressing … Read More ›

Posted on April 3, 2024June 2, 2025
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In the News, Research + Innovation

Depression in Black People Goes Unnoticed by AI Models Analyzing Language in Social Media Posts

Methods researchers developed to detect possible depression through language in social media posts don’t appear to work when applied to posts by Black people on social media, … Read More ›

Posted on March 27, 2024March 26, 2024
"The manifold of models along training trajectories of networks with different configurations (architectures denoted by different colors, optimization algorithms, hyper-parameters, and regularization mechanisms) is effectively low-dimensional."
Research + Innovation

The Hidden Geometry of Learning: Neural Networks Think Alike

Penn Engineers have uncovered an unexpected pattern in how neural networks — the systems leading today’s AI revolution — learn, suggesting an answer to one … Read More ›

Posted on March 19, 2024March 19, 2024
Sherry (Xue) Gao, Presidental Penn Compact Associate Professor in Bioengineering
Research + Innovation

Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Sherry Gao Pushes the Boundaries of Genetic Engineering

Sherry (Xue) Gao, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), always knew she had a future in the lab. “I grew … Read More ›

Posted on March 18, 2024April 2, 2024
A CAR T cell, colored red, attacks a cancer cell, colored blue.
Research + Innovation

Accelerating CAR T Cell Therapy: Lipid Nanoparticles Speed Up Manufacturing

For patients with certain types of cancer, CAR T cell therapy has been nothing short of life changing. Developed in part by Carl June, Richard … Read More ›

Posted on March 18, 2024
Portrait of Samantha McBride wearing a dark-colored blazer with her hair down.
Research + Innovation

Interfacial Phenomena: Samantha McBride’s Untapped Resource for Water Sustainability

In a typical year, Reno, Nevada, receives just seven and a half inches of rain. For Samantha McBride, the newest faculty member in Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›

Posted on March 12, 2024March 4, 2024
Research + Innovation

Precision Pulmonary Medicine: Penn Engineers Target Lung Disease with Lipid Nanoparticles

Penn Engineers have developed a new means of targeting the lungs with lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the miniscule capsules used by the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 … Read More ›

Posted on March 1, 2024February 29, 2024
A lipid nanoparticle is presented in cross-section, as a bisected hemisphere made of small, orange-colored lipids.
Research + Innovation

A Moonshot for Obesity: New Molecules, Inspired by Space Shuttles, Advance Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery for Weight Control

Inspired by the design of space shuttles, Penn Engineering researchers have invented a new way to synthesize a key component of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the … Read More ›

Posted on February 26, 2024March 1, 2024
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In the News, Research + Innovation

The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People

In recent years, there has been a popular narrative in the media that videos from highly partisan, conspiracy theory-driven YouTube channels radicalize young Americans and that YouTube’s … Read More ›

Posted on February 26, 2024February 26, 2024

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