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Eco Journey, an app developed by Penn Engineering CIS student Rena Li.
Honors + Awards, Students

Rena Li (CIS’27) Wins at 2024 Apple Swift Student Challenge

Rena Li, a sophomore in Computer and Information Science in Penn Engineering, is a winner of the 2024 Apple Swift Student Challenge after developing Eco … Read More ›

Posted on September 17, 2024November 6, 2024
A strand of RNA assembling itself
Grants, In the News, Research + Innovation

Melding AI and RNA: $18M NSF AIRFoundry to Revolutionize RNA Research

In a typical foundry, raw materials like steel and copper are melted down and poured into molds to assume new shapes and functions. The U.S. … Read More ›

Posted on August 28, 2024June 2, 2025
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
Hotel de Ville building Courtyard of the City Hall view Paris France
In the News, Students

Going for Gold: Matt Fallon to Compete for Team USA

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris open today and run through Sunday, Aug. 11. Around 10,500 athletes will be competing, including 114 from the … Read More ›

Posted on July 26, 2024August 22, 2024
Matt Fallon high-fives Leon Marchand after the 200-yard breaststroke at the 2024 NCAA Championships
In the News, Students

Engineering an Olympian: Matt Fallon’s Journey from Penn to Paris

This week, more than 1,000 of the country’s best swimmers have gathered in Indianapolis, the site of the U.S. Olympic Trials. Only 56 of them … Read More ›

Posted on June 17, 2024
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
Michael Kearns wearing a button down shirt while teaching.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Model Disgorgement: The Key to Fixing AI Bias and Copyright Infringement?

By now, the challenges posed by generative AI are no secret. Models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama have been known to “hallucinate,” … Read More ›

Posted on May 17, 2024June 2, 2025

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