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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
Five students in black tshirts stand before a blackboard. one of them demonstrates while talking.
Research + Innovation, Students

Innovation in Action: Penn Engineering’s 2024 Senior Design Project Competition

How do you make robotics kits affordable for children in low-income countries? Speed up the manufacturing of organs-on-a-chip? Lower the environmental impact of condiments in … Read More ›

Posted on July 18, 2024July 18, 2024
A cube on a blue background. The cube is green and gray, with a mixed pattern, showing what a bicontinuous hydrogel looks like.
Research + Innovation

Highways to Health: Bicontinuous Structures Speed Up Cell Migration

One of the most important but least understood aspects of healing is cell migration, or the process of cells moving from one part of the … Read More ›

Posted on July 17, 2024July 16, 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
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
Participants from Penn Engineering included Vijay Kumar, the Nemirovsky Family Dean, and René Vidal, alongside Penn Medicine’s Dan Rader (pictured left to right).
Events, In the News

Showing Up for Penn in London

Sharing the exciting work happening at Penn with alumni, parents, and friends throughout the world is a priority for Interim President J. Larry Jameson. Shortly after … Read More ›

Posted on July 11, 2024
From left: Jamie Moffa, Konrad Kording, Kaela Singleton and Arjun Raj
In the News, Research + Innovation

From Chance to Certainty: Solving Science’s Reproducibility Crisis

One of the pillars of science is the idea that experimental results can be replicated. If they cannot be reproduced, what if the findings of … Read More ›

Posted on July 10, 2024July 17, 2024
Picture if an orange microbe
In the News, Research + Innovation

Penn Pioneers a ‘One-Pot Platform’ to Promptly Produce mRNA Delivery Particles

Imagine a scenario where a skilled hacker must upload critical software to update a central server and thwart a potentially lethal virus from wreaking havoc … Read More ›

Posted on July 10, 2024
Sam Dillavou, a postdoc in the Durian Research Group in the School of Arts & Sciences, built the components of this contrastive local learning network, an analog system that is fast, low-power, scalable, and able to learn nonlinear tasks. (Image: Erica Moser)
Research + Innovation

A First, Physical System Learns Nonlinear Tasks Without a Traditional Computer Processor

Scientists run into a lot of tradeoffs trying to build and scale up brain-like systems that can perform machine learning. For instance, artificial neural networks … Read More ›

Posted on July 8, 2024
Lasya Sreepada stands with her arms crossed, looking into the distance, with trees and campus buildings in the background
Research + Innovation, Students

Who, What, Why: Lasya Sreepada on decoding Alzheimer’s disease

Lasya Sreepada has always been fascinated by the brain and the underlying biology that shapes how people develop and age. “My curiosity traces back to … Read More ›

Posted on July 5, 2024July 5, 2024

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