Two Penn Engineering Professors Named 2018 ACM Fellows
Wall Street Journal’s ‘Moving Upstream’ on Autonomous Flight
The Wall Street Journal’s docu-series “Moving Upstream” takes a closer look at disruptive technologies that are changing the way we live, work and communicate. Topics in its second season include gene editing, cryptocurrencies, and the deceptive videos known as “Deepfakes.” For its latest episode, “The Future of Flight: AI in the Cockpit,” host Jason Bellini visited PERCH to […]
Hari Santhanaraghavan: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni
This is a part of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alums about their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. Our next article is by Hari Santhanaraghavan, who graduated with a master’s degree in Robotics in 2017. Santhanaraghavan currently works as an analyst in the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs.
M&T Student Profiles: Quinn Wu
Quinn Wu is a senior in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology. Students in the M&T program dual major in departments that span Penn Engineering and Wharton; Wu majors in Computer Science in the former and Statistics at the latter. In an interview, Wu explains what drew him to the program and what makes the […]
Sampath Kannan Wins India Research and Engagement Fund Grant for ‘Safe Internet of Things’
During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.
Linguistic Red Flags from Facebook Posts Can Predict Future Depression Diagnoses
Research from the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health and the World Well-Being Project marries social media data with medical-outcomes data for the first time.
Engineering’s New Open Online Course Teaches Computational Thinking
In a world increasingly dependent on data-driven decision making, understanding the way computers process information has become an asset in almost every field and career. Penn Engineering’s newest open online course — Computational Thinking for Problem Solving — is built around the idea that this skill shouldn’t only be the domain of computer scientists and programmers.
Computer and Information Science Names 2018 J.P. Eckert Master’s Fellows
The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS)is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 J.P. Eckert Master’s Fellowship. This fellowship is named in honor of J. Presper Eckert, co-inventor of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reducing Complexity to Increase Security
In collaboration with Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford, Penn Engineers Receive $7.5M Office of Naval Research Grant on software complexity reduction.
Social Networks, Political Polarization and Climate Change
Damon Centola, associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Penn Engineering, uses formal and computational models of social networks to study collective human dynamics. As the Director of the Network Dynamics Group and a member of the Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences, he uses online experiments to study how changes to […]