Robots in the Reading Room: GRASP Lab Brings Hands-On STEM to Roxborough Library News / April 14, 2025 From left to right: Wanying Long, Eric Sigg, Victoria Edwards, and Dr. Thales C. Silva shared with the local community all the steps necessary for building an mASV. (Credit: Ian Scheffler) In 2012, Katherine Kuchenbecher, then a faculty member at Penn Engineering in the General Robotics, Automation and Sensing (GRASP)... Read More
Zixuan Yi: A ‘Question-Driven’ Approach to Improving AI and Machine Learning News / April 11, 2025 In any business, time is money. So it’s hardly surprising that many sectors have embraced systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): these tools promise to make time-consuming processes more efficient. Zixuan Yi, a second-year doctoral student in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the PRECISE (Penn... Read More
The ASSET Center Advances Trustworthy AI with Support from AWS News / April 9, 2025 As AI continues to evolve, its integration into safety-critical domains, such as autonomous vehicles or medical diagnosis tools, has raised pressing concerns. Current machine learning algorithms can offer statistical guarantees, but they do not always provide the predictable behavior required for high-risk applications. Additionally, beyond just making predictions, AI systems... Read More
Responsible Innovation Starts Here: A Holistic Approach to Engineering Education News / April 7, 2025 With guidance from faculty experts, students develop the “ethics toolkit” they’ll rely on as future leaders in science and technology. Read More
Investing in Engineers: Sugi Widjaja and Millie Wan Champion Entrepreneurship Fellows News / March 31, 2025 Neither Sugi Widjaja (EE’00) nor Millie Wan (W’01) pictured themselves attending Penn. Widjaja, who moved from Asia to Santa Monica, California, for his senior year of high school, expected to attend community college, then transfer to a four-year school. “My parents didn’t graduate from high school,” he says. “All they... Read More
Meet Taylor Caputo, Director of the Engineering Studios @ Venture Lab News / March 28, 2025 Taylor Caputo (IPD’15) helps students bring their visions for new products to life through techniques as varied as sewing and 3D printing. Read More
Evaluating Large Language Models for Cyberbullying Behavior News / March 27, 2025 Ph.D. students in Penn’s Brachio Lab have been assessing the safety of machine learning systems for real-world uses like economic forecasting, cultural politeness, and legal reasoning. In their work, a new focus area has emerged: The extent to which large language models (LLMs) are capable of cyberbullying behavior—and how to debug where... Read More
The Cora Ingrum Center: Supporting the Next Generation of Engineers News / March 25, 2025 Through a wide range of initiatives, the Cora Ingrum Center (CIC) for Community and Outreach aims to introduce as many Philadelphia students as possible to the kind of science happening within Penn Engineering. Read More
Combining AI and Art-making for Youth Well-being News / March 7, 2025 After gaining experience as a qualitative researcher in public health, Eileen Feng mused about how she might take that knowledge and apply it to product design. She sought out a program soon after completing a master’s program in public health, finding her fit with the Integrated Product Design master’s program, a joint... Read More
Stentix Wins 2025 Y-Prize Competition News / February 21, 2025 This year’s Y-Prize competition winner is an ambitious team of undergraduates aiming to bring Penn-developed technology to patients suffering with bile duct obstructions. Their proposed product, Stentix, has been awarded $10,000 to get this work off the ground with preliminary research and prototype design throughout the next five years. The... Read More
