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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, 2025October 29, 2025
Pictured from left to right: Helen Jin, Arjun Krishna, Christopher Watson, Neelay Velingker, Vivian Lin, Ezra Edelman, Alex Shypula, Nicolas Menand and Thomas Zhang. Not pictured: Behrad Moniri, Joey Velez-Ginorio and Yue Yang.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Students

The ASSET Center Advances Trustworthy AI with Support from AWS

As AI continues to evolve, its integration into safety-critical domains, such as autonomous vehicles or medical diagnosis tools, has raised pressing concerns. Current machine learning … Read More ›

Posted on April 9, 2025June 2, 2025
A picture of the exterior of Amy Gutmann Hall, Penn's new mass timber building for AI and Data Science.
Events, In the News

AI Month at Penn

In an era defined by rapid technological transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a central force reshaping nearly every facet of human life—from health … Read More ›

Posted on April 1, 2025June 2, 2025
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Honors + Awards, In the News

César de la Fuente, Jason Altschuler Named Sloan Research Fellows

The University of Pennsylvania’s Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang have each been selected to receive a 2025 Sloan … Read More ›

Posted on February 18, 2025June 2, 2025
A pair of lasers face one another, with a translucent chip in between them.
Research + Innovation

Qubits to qudits: Using quantum mechanics to transmit information more securely

In the realm of quantum information distribution, sending a signal from point A to point B is like a baseball pitcher relaying a secret pitch … Read More ›

Posted on February 10, 2025February 10, 2025
Illustration from 2024-25 Penn Engineering magazine by Michael Artman
Research + Innovation

Is Moore’s Law Really Dead?

In 1965, Gordon Moore defined a relationship between cadence and cost for computing innovation that came to be known as “Moore’s Law.” This rule both … Read More ›

Posted on January 16, 2025June 2, 2025
A quartet of male researchers stands behind their lab equipment, which includes mirrors and cameras.
Research + Innovation

Revolutionizing Data Centers: Penn Engineers’ Breakthrough in Photonic Switching

Every second, terabytes of data — the equivalent of downloading thousands upon thousands of movies at once — travel around the world as light in … Read More ›

Posted on January 7, 2025October 29, 2025
An artistic representation of the minute nucleic differences detectable using the form of nuclear quadrupolar resonance described in the new paper.
Research + Innovation

New Quantum Sensing Technology Reveals Sub-Atomic Signals

Since the 1950s, scientists have used radio waves to uncover the molecular “fingerprints” of unknown materials, aiding in tasks as varied as scanning the human … Read More ›

Posted on January 6, 2025December 23, 2024
Honors + Awards, In the News

George Pappas and Nikolai Matni Receive 2024 IEEE Control Systems Society Best Paper Awards

George Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) and Associate Dean for Research for Penn Engineering, and Nikolai Matni, Assistant … Read More ›

Posted on December 18, 2024June 2, 2025
Cherie Kagan
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Cherie Kagan Receives 2024-25 Heilmeier Award

Cherie Kagan, Stephen J. Angello Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), has been named the recipient of the 2024-25 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award … Read More ›

Posted on December 12, 2024

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