Tackling Blindness with Nanotechnology
Last year, seniors Brandon Kao of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of The Wharton School were named winners of the Y-Prize, a competition that challenges participants to find commercial applications for emerging technologies being developed at Penn. With support from the President’s Innovation Prize, their work […]
Commemorating the Career of Portonovo Ayyaswamy
On May 9, an all-day symposium will celebrate the career of Portonovo Ayyaswamy, Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), who will retire this year. The symposium will feature presentations by top researchers from across the U.S., in the areas of heat and mass transfer, fluid […]
Anne Cocos Receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship
Anne Cocos, a PhD student in Computer and Information Science working with Chris Callison-Burch, has received a 2018 Google PhD Fellowship for her work in natural language processing. Google created the PhD Fellowship program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its […]
Penn Engineering 2018 Teaching Awards
The recipients of the annual Penn Engineering teaching and advising awards are selected directly by Penn Engineering students after thoughtful consideration. The School is filled with gifted educators who inspire students with their dedication and excellence. The S. Reid Warren, Jr., Award Santosh Venkatesh, Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the S. […]
Charles Yang Named Guggenheim Fellow
Charles Yang, professor in Computer and Information Science and in Linguistics in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. The Guggenheim Fellowship is designed to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and […]
Taking Penn Engineering Technology to Market
Boon Thau Loo, professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) and associate dean of Master’s and Professional Programs, acknowledges that there is a divide between the worlds of academia and industry. By collaborating on the CIS department’s first-ever spinoff, a startup called Netsil, Loo and his lab members gained the skills to […]
Aaswath Raman at TED2018: ‘The next renewable resource? The cold of space’
Aaswath Raman, one of the newest members of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, is using his background in optics and materials science to take an ancient idea and apply it to a pressing, modern-day problem: cooling.
Students Compete in Healthcare Innovation at Rothberg Catalyzer
In late March, over a hundred students gathered in the Towne Building to take part in a 36-hour blitz of innovation at the Rothberg Catalyzer Makerthon, powered by the Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology (Penn Health-Tech). Undergraduate and graduate students from Penn Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Medicine, Dental Medicine and Nursing, as well […]
Chloé le Comte: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni
This is part of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alumni, about their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. Our next article is written by Chloé le Comte, who graduated with a master’s in Systems Engineering in 2016. She currently works in Seattle as a Marketing Analytics & Business Planning […]
Q&A with Reeham Sedky
Reeham Sedky, a junior in the Department of Computer and Information Science, is a national champion in squash and Ivy League Player of the Year. Sedky spoke with Penn Today’s Greg Johnson about dedication, on and off the court.