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In the News, Research + Innovation

Cloudy with a Chance of Lifesaving and More Cost-Effective Weather Predictions

When Hurricane Katrina reached the Gulf Coast in 2005, emergency responders were blindsided by a storm surge that defied predictions. In Japan six years later, … Read More ›

Posted on May 21, 2025June 2, 2025
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In the News, Research + Innovation

How Penn is Reimagining Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

In a sunlit conference room in Amy Gutmann Hall, a group of researchers convenes for a regular lunch meeting. Physicists converse with linguists, computer scientists … Read More ›

Posted on May 20, 2025June 2, 2025
Honors + Awards, Students

Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge

To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is … Read More ›

Posted on May 6, 2025June 2, 2025
Academics, Students

Empowering Futures: How PRECISE Center’s Mentorship with Google is Transforming Academic Careers and Innovation

“It takes a village to raise a child,” the old saying goes. In the world of academic research, the same principle holds true. At the … Read More ›

Posted on May 2, 2025June 2, 2025
In the News

Innovation & Impact Podcast: The Future of AI with Yann LeCun

AI is at the forefront of technological advances and is also reshaping creativity, ownership and societal interactions. In episode 7 of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & … Read More ›

Posted on April 29, 2025June 2, 2025
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Academics, Alumni, Events, Research + Innovation, Students

Scaling Up: How AI Month 2025 Brought Big Ideas to Life at Penn Engineering

In the world of AI, experts frequently discuss so-called “scaling laws,” which describe how large language models (LLMs) grow exponentially more powerful as their training … Read More ›

Posted on April 28, 2025June 2, 2025
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Academics, Research + Innovation

Meet Jean, Penn Engineering’s AI Tutor, Available 24/7

Imagine that you’re a first-year student in the Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) program, Penn Engineering’s most popular online degree. You’ve spent hours … Read More ›

Posted on April 23, 2025June 2, 2025
Students

How MLR@Penn Supports Student AI Researchers

Last year, researchers published over 50,000 papers on machine learning — a nearly 50% jump from the previous year. “Figuring out what’s worth reading is … Read More ›

Posted on April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
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Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers First to Train AI at Lightspeed

Penn Engineers have developed the first programmable chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light — a breakthrough that could dramatically speed up AI … Read More ›

Posted on April 15, 2025June 2, 2025
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Research + Innovation, Students

Zixuan Yi: A ‘Question-Driven’ Approach to Improving AI and Machine Learning

In any business, time is money. So it’s hardly surprising that many sectors have embraced systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): … Read More ›

Posted on April 11, 2025June 2, 2025

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