How To Build a Career in the Age of AI Academics, AI, Students / May 15, 2026 Penn career advisor Jamie Grant explains how soon-to-be graduates can use AI to augment their skills, demonstrate their value and navigate a changing job market. Read More Penn Student Develops a Way for Computer Chips To Run More Efficiently AI, Awards, Students / May 14, 2026 President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso’s Fluid Silicon platform helps computer chips monitor their own performance in real time, reducing wasted energy and improving efficiency as demand for AI-scale computing grows. Read More Penn Engineers Create AI Tool to Speed Antibiotic Discovery AI, Research and Innovation / May 13, 2026 By combining generative AI with Bayesian optimization, ApexGO suggests molecular edits that can turn weak antibiotic candidates into more potent ones. The work points toward a more systematic approach to antibiotic discovery, using AI to guide researchers toward molecules most worth testing. Read More AI in the Physical World: Helping Robotic Arms Solve Problems Using Tools AI, In the News, Research + Innovation / May 12, 2026 When Tianyu Li, a doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), and George Jiayuan Gao, former master’s student in Robotics and current research engineer at Dyna, set out to study how robots might better interact with the physical world, they weren’t just thinking about smarter machines, they were... Read More
Penn Student Develops a Way for Computer Chips To Run More Efficiently AI, Awards, Students / May 14, 2026 President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso’s Fluid Silicon platform helps computer chips monitor their own performance in real time, reducing wasted energy and improving efficiency as demand for AI-scale computing grows. Read More
Penn Engineers Create AI Tool to Speed Antibiotic Discovery AI, Research and Innovation / May 13, 2026 By combining generative AI with Bayesian optimization, ApexGO suggests molecular edits that can turn weak antibiotic candidates into more potent ones. The work points toward a more systematic approach to antibiotic discovery, using AI to guide researchers toward molecules most worth testing. Read More
AI in the Physical World: Helping Robotic Arms Solve Problems Using Tools AI, In the News, Research + Innovation / May 12, 2026 When Tianyu Li, a doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), and George Jiayuan Gao, former master’s student in Robotics and current research engineer at Dyna, set out to study how robots might better interact with the physical world, they weren’t just thinking about smarter machines, they were... Read More
