Inventing the Future
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Looking to AI to Solve Antibiotic Resistance
To combat the global crisis of antibiotic resistance, a team led by César de la Fuente, Presidential Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Microbiology, Chemistry,
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Brewing Brilliance
Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), regularly joins his colleague Firooz Aflatouni, associate professor and undergraduate chair in ESE, for a cup of tea. Together, the pair discuss history, politics, and of course, science. Most recently, the two devised a novel chip that uses light rather than electricity to perform vector-matrix multiplication, a key mathematical operation in the training of neural networks.
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Investing in AI at Penn Engineering
Meet some of the key architects of Penn’s programs in AI and data science in a discussion hosted by Vijay Kumar, Nemirosvky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with Board members Rajendra Singh (PAR’10, PAR’11), Harlan Stone (C’80, PAR’13) and Fred Warren (ME’60, WG’61, PAR’87, PAR’19).
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2024 Commencement
Penn Engineering recently hosted commencement ceremonies in celebration of the 2024 Penn Engineering graduates. Watch highlights from the undergraduate and master’s ceremonies here.
Events
MEAM Seminar: “Dynamic Bipedal Walking on Unstructured Terrain through Real-Time Perception and Control”
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Addressing the genome structure-function relationship in neural activation and neurological disorders” (Harshini Chandrashekar)
ASSET Seminar: Armando Solar-Lezama (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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