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Portrait of Nandan Tumu
Research + Innovation, Students

Nandan Tumu: Pioneering Efficient Traffic Control and Sustainable Energy Solutions

In the bustling corridors of the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center, groundbreaking research is unfolding. Led by Nandan Tumu, … Read More ›

Posted on August 27, 2024June 2, 2025
A rendering of the human intestines with bacteria outlined in bright colors.
Research + Innovation

Mining the Microbiome: Uncovering New Antibiotics Inside the Human Gut

The average human gut contains roughly 100 trillion microbes, many of which are constantly competing for limited resources. “It’s such a harsh environment,” says César … Read More ›

Posted on August 19, 2024August 15, 2024
In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Detecting Machine-Generated Text: An Arms Race With the Advancements of Large Language Models

Machine-generated text has been fooling humans for the last four years. Since the release of GPT-2 in 2019, large language model (LLM) tools have gotten … Read More ›

Posted on August 12, 2024August 16, 2024
Jacob Gardner smiles while wearing a button-down shirt.
Research + Innovation

The Electron Microscope of AI: Jacob Gardner’s Mission to Supercharge Scientific Research

In North Carolina, where Jacob Gardner, Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science, grew up, hurricanes arrive like unwelcome relatives — Fran, Matthew, Florence. In … Read More ›

Posted on August 5, 2024June 2, 2025
Eric Lu, left, sits next to his advisor, Insup Lee
Research + Innovation, Students

Pengyuan Eric Lu: Embracing the Power of Deep Learning in Safety-Critical Systems

What if the technology that powers our cars, medical devices and energy grids could guarantee safety and reliability like never before? Pengyuan “Eric” Lu, a … Read More ›

Posted on August 1, 2024June 2, 2025
Fact versus opinion road sign.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector

Every day, American news outlets collectively publish thousands of articles. In 2016, according to The Atlantic, The Washington Post published 500 pieces of content per … Read More ›

Posted on June 25, 2024June 2, 2025
Six robots gather around an oversized typewriter using their own laptops, tablets, and phones, illustrating the concept of writing or journalism work being performed by artificial intelligence. Illustration uses a unified palette of neutral and turquoise colors, comprised of vector shapes over a dark gray background on a 16x9 artboard, and presented in isometric view.
Research + Innovation

Censoring Creativity: The Limits of ChatGPT for Scriptwriting

Last year, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) labor union, which represents film and TV writers, went on strike for nearly five months, in part … Read More ›

Posted on June 10, 2024June 2, 2025
A cartoon of a Facebook newsfeed with an image of a vaccine syringe, a COVID-19 viral particle, and the phrase "FAKE NEWS" stamped across the image.
Research + Innovation

Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

What threatens public health more, a deliberately false Facebook post about tracking microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine that is flagged as misinformation, or an unflagged, … Read More ›

Posted on May 30, 2024June 2, 2025
Nader Engheta and Firooz Aflatouni chat animatedly over cups of tea in the latter's office.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Brewing Brilliance: Nader Engheta and Firooz Aflatouni of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science turn tea time into new ideas.

According to Chinese legend, the first cup of tea was an accident. Shennong, a mythical emperor, boiled a pot of water, only for the wind … Read More ›

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024
From left: Vijay Kumar, Nemirosvky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, and Board members Rajendra Singh, Harlan Stone (C'80, P'13) and Fred Warren (ME’60, WG’61)
Alumni, In the News

Investing in Innovation: Philanthropy Powers AI Education at Penn Engineering

In 1943, Warren McCullough, a psychiatrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Walter Pitts, a runaway prodigy, co-authored a paper in the Bulletin … Read More ›

Posted on May 22, 2024June 2, 2025

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