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Five young men hold a red and white buoy in front of a Jamaican beach.
Students

A Return to Jamaica Brings Seven Student-Invented Devices to Help People and Wildlife

Penn students have been building their knowledge and hands-on experience in places all over the world through Penn Global Seminars. Last May, “Robotics and Rehabilitation” … Read More ›

Posted on April 5, 2024April 5, 2024
A portrait of Pratik Chaudhari, wearing a dark polo shirt and with a dark glass board with mathematical notation behind him.
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
A group of Penn students in front of College Hall posing with the new electric racecar.
Events, In the News

Unveiling REV 9, Penn Electric Racing’s Latest Race Car

A crowd filled with curious, eager faces gathered on College Green to see the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Penn Electric Racing (PER) team … Read More ›

Posted on April 4, 2024
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
Penn’s 2024 Goldwater Scholars (clockwise from top left) are third-year students Hayle Kim, Kaitlin Mrksich, Eric Tao and Eric Myzelev. Kim, Myzelev and Tao are in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mrksich in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Four Penn Undergrads are 2024 Goldwater Scholars

Four University of Pennsylvania undergraduates have received 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, awarded to second- or third-year students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Penn’s … Read More ›

Posted on April 1, 2024
2024 Penn Engineering Student Choice Award Recipients
Honors + Awards

The 2024 Penn Engineering Student Choice Awards

Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the faculty recipients of the 2024 Student Choice Awards. Each year, the Penn Engineering undergraduate student body thoughtfully selects … Read More ›

Posted on March 28, 2024
Image of an African-American hand holding a cell phone
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
Picture of Jing Li, Andre DeHon and Jonathan Smith
Grants, In the News

Penn Engineering Wins $13.5 Million Grant from DARPA to Enhance National Computer Security

The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has secured a $13.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to … Read More ›

Posted on March 25, 2024November 4, 2024
Penn Engineering Online 5-Year Anniversary
Academics, Alumni, Students

Opening Doors and Changing Lives: Five Years of Penn Engineering Online Master’s Degrees

The technological landscape is changing at a rapid pace, faster than ever before, leaving almost no career path untouched. In addition, professionals looking to augment … Read More ›

Posted on March 25, 2024November 4, 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

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