Deep Jariwala Named 2026 Optica Fellow News / December 4, 2025 Deep Jariwala, Associate Professor and Peter and Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been elected to the 2026 class of Optica Fellows, a distinction granted to no more than 10 percent of the Society’s membership and reserved for researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the... Read More
Pushing the Boundaries of Autonomous Systems, Antonio Loquercio Receives Mario Gerla Award News / December 3, 2025 On November 6, the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) held its Annual Event at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., welcoming H.E. Ambassador Marco Peronaci, along with representatives from major Italian institutions. The gathering highlighted the finalists for the Foundation’s five 2025 Young Investigator Awards... Read More
Homecoming 2025: Powered by Penn Engineering News / November 25, 2025 During this year’s Homecoming Weekend (Nov. 6 – 9), the Penn Engineering community returned to campus to celebrate connection, innovation and the spirit of discovery that defines the School. A Spark of Discovery: Faculty Lightning Talks Friday afternoon provided a glimpse into the impact of the School’s labs with a... Read More
Ralph Teetor: The Blind Penn Engineer Who Changed the Way We Drive News / November 7, 2025 Penn Engineering graduate Ralph Teetor, who lost his sight by the age of six, used his heightened senses and passion for engineering to change how the world drives. Read More
Penn Engineering’s Dohyung Kim Named 2025 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering News / October 15, 2025 Dohyung Kim, Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a 2025 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The Fellowship, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for early-career researchers, provides $875,000 over five years to support pioneering work in... Read More
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars News / October 2, 2025 From blistering desert dunes to future lunar missions, Penn researchers are preparing cooperative robots for the realities of off-world exploration. Read More
74 Brilliant Minds, One Symposium: NAE Frontiers of Engineering Celebrates 30 Years at Penn News / September 26, 2025 The 30th Anniversary Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (FOE), hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, took place from September 14 through 17, 2025 at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology. Marking the first time the event came to Philadelphia, this flagship National Academy of Engineering (NAE) event was co-chaired by... Read More
Pranam Chatterjee Designs Novel AI Frameworks for Biotechnology News / September 18, 2025 When he enrolled at Dartmouth, Pranam Chatterjee, Assistant Professor and Africk-Lesley Distinguished Scholar of Innovation in Engineering with a joint appointment in Bioengineering (BE) and in Computer and Information Science (CIS), did not start off as an engineering student. He majored in religion. “I had a deep desire to... Read More
Penn Engineers Explore How Tumor Mechanics and Tiny Messengers Could Shape the Future of Cancer Research News / September 17, 2025 When Ph.D. student Kshitiz Parihar began combing through dozens of research papers on two seemingly different topics — tumor mechanics and extracellular vesicles, tiny packages of proteins and genetic material secreted by cells — he noticed something surprising: the two fields were speaking to each other. Together with his advisor,... Read More
What Stiffening Lung Tissue Reveals About the Earliest Stages of Fibrosis News / September 5, 2025 Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it’s too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more than a slowing of the inevitable. But what if we could understand the very first steps... Read More
