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Late-Night Lessons and Diaries

PGS: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Ani Petrosyan, SEAS ’26, one of the PGS Correspondents, shares her experience abroad during the Spring 2024 semester.  It’s 11 PM … Read More ›

Posted on June 4, 2024
Janice Kim, a fourth-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
In the News, Students

Combining the Skills of Engineering and Design


When Janice Kim began her time at Penn, her goal was to become a software engineer. That didn’t exactly go according to plan. Kim, from … Read More ›

Posted on May 15, 2024May 16, 2024
From left: Neeraj Gandhi; Mingmin Zhao, Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science (CIS); Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Associate Professor in CIS and Gandhi's advisor; Oleg Sokolsky, Research Professor in CIS; and Insup Lee, Caitlin Fitler Moore Professor in CIS and Director of the PRECISE Center
In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Safety First: Neeraj Gandhi Ensures the Safety and Security of AI-Controlled Systems

When an Uber car picking up passengers is a robot, passengers want assurance that the ride is going to be affordable, efficient, smooth — and … Read More ›

Posted on May 13, 2024June 2, 2025
Third-year undergraduate Joey Wu has been named a 2024 Udall Scholar. (Image: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)
Honors + Awards, Students

Penn Third Year Named 2024 Udall Scholar

The University of Pennsylvania’s Joey Wu, a third-year student studying bioengineering and environmental science in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) program, has been named … Read More ›

Posted on May 9, 2024
Karen Xu
Honors + Awards, Students

Karen Xu Honored with P.E.O. Scholar Award

Karen Xu, a 2024 doctoral graduate in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada … Read More ›

Posted on May 8, 2024
Picture of two Penn students, Yash Dhir (left) and Rahul Nambiar have been awarded the 2024 President’s Innovation Prize for their web-based educational management tool, Jochi.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Students

Making Life Easier for Students with Learning Differences

Since the initial days of his first year at Penn, fourth-year student Yash Dhir has been steadily working on an idea that came to him … Read More ›

Posted on May 7, 2024
Academics, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

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
Matthew Cleaveland, crossing the finish line of the Philadelphia Marathon
In the News, Students

Overcoming the Odds: Matthew Cleaveland Designs Robots to Deal with Uncertainty, While Outrunning Cancer

During the pandemic, Matthew Cleaveland, a doctoral candidate at the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center, took up running to get outside … Read More ›

Posted on April 24, 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

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