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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
PIP and PEP Winners
Honors + Awards, In the News

Class of 2024 President’s Engagement, Innovation Prize Winners Announced

University of Pennsylvania Interim President J. Larry Jameson today announced the recipients of the 2024 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes. Awarded annually, the Prizes empower Penn undergraduate … Read More ›

Posted on April 19, 2024April 18, 2024
Penn’s new AAAS Fellows for 2024, clockwise from top left: Dolores Albarracín, T. Tony Cai, Noam A. Cohen, Shu Yang, Edward A. Stadtmauer, and Michael Lampson.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Six from Penn Elected 2024 AAAS Fellows

Six faculty researchers representing six University of Pennsylvania schools have been elected 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. They are among … Read More ›

Posted on April 19, 2024April 18, 2024
Kyle Vining poses in his lab.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Engineering Hope: Kyle Vining Earns Hartwell Foundation Award to Study Childhood Leukemia

Every year, thousands of American children are diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. The disease begins in bone … Read More ›

Posted on April 15, 2024April 17, 2024
Deep Jariwala
Honors + Awards, In the News

Deep Jariwala Receives Optica’s 2024 Adolph Lomb Medal

  Deep Jariwala, Peter and Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar and Associate Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected … Read More ›

Posted on April 15, 2024
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
Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth sit side-by-side in front of a blackboard covered in math- and computer science-related notes.
Academics, Research + Innovation

The Science of Designing Ethical Algorithms: Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth on Ethical AI

In 2019, Michael Kearns, National Center Professor of Management & Technology in Computer and Information Science (CIS), and Aaron Roth, Henry Salvatori Professor in Computer … Read More ›

Posted on April 10, 2024June 2, 2025

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