Tag: AI

Penn Researchers Earn Honorable Mention in Laude Institute Moonshots Competition

News / April 15, 2026

A group of researchers at Penn Engineering, Penn Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences earned an honorable mention and $100,000 from the Laude Institute for a “moonshot” idea to use AI to build molecular databases for drug discovery.

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Penn Researchers Use AI to Surface Unreported GLP-1 Side Effects in Reddit Posts

News / April 10, 2026

An AI analysis of more than 400,000 Reddit posts found discussions of menstrual changes, fatigue and temperature-related complaints that may not be fully captured in clinical trials or drug labeling.

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NSF AIRFoundry: A New Hub for AI-Driven RNA Research

News / April 9, 2026

The NSF AIRFoundry, an $18-million facility designed to use AI to accelerate RNA research, has officially opened, broadening access to advanced tools that could advance medicine, agriculture and more.

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Penn’s Newest Supercomputer is Transforming Research

News / April 7, 2026

Penn’s first campus-wide HPC and AI cluster, ‘Betty,’ is expanding access to powerful computing, enabling groundbreaking projects, and fostering new collaborations across disciplines.

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AI Month Spotlights the Evolving Frontier of Human-Centered AI

News / March 30, 2026

A monthlong series of talks, workshops, symposia and more highlights how recent advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping robotics, health, education and public life, all the while keeping human values at the center.

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A New Swarm AI Project Takes on Safety at Scale

News / March 20, 2026

Penn Engineering is leading a global effort to bring AI off the screen and into coordinated teams of physical robots. The project explores how large groups of autonomous agents can cooperate, compete and make decisions safely in complex, real-world environments.

Penn Engineering to Host India Technology Forum in Mumbai

News / March 10, 2026

Faculty experts in AI and bioengineering will join Dean Vijay Kumar, Rajeev Misra and Hital Meswani for a global innovation forum in Mumbai.

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New Robotic Microfluidic Platform Brings AI to Lipid Nanoparticle Design

News / March 9, 2026

LIBRIS, an automated microfluidic platform, dramatically accelerates the formulation of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the delivery vehicles behind mRNA vaccines and gene therapies. By generating on the order of 1,000 distinct formulations per hour, the system could enable the large, systematic datasets needed to train predictive AI models.

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Beyond Algorithms: Engineering Judgment in the Age of AI

News / March 6, 2026

When Justin “Gus” Hurwitz walks into a classroom, he’s not there to teach rules. He’s there to teach engineers to see the fracture points between technical judgment, legal obligation, and moral responsibility. In his Technology, Ethics & the Legal Landscape course, offered within Penn Engineering’s MSE-AI and MCIT programs, a conversation...