What It Will Take to Make AI-Enabled Robots Safer News / April 29, 2026 Can the same AI safety techniques used for chatbots keep robots from harming people? Researchers from Penn Engineering, Carnegie Mellon and Oxford argue that the answer is no. The group argues that because robots can turn flawed reasoning into physical action, they need a more robust safety framework, one that... Read More
Fengrui Tian Named 2026 Apple Ph.D. Scholar in AIML News / April 28, 2026 Fengrui Tian, a Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2026 Apple Ph.D. Scholar in AIML. Selected by the Computer Vision committee, he is recognized for his contributions to advancing computer vision and 3D scene understanding. Read More
SmartDJ Lets Users Reshape Audio Experiences with Simple Words News / April 24, 2026 Penn Engineers have developed SmartDJ, an AI-powered tool for editing stereo audio environments in applications like virtual reality, augmented reality, gaming and sound design. By combining an audio language model with a diffusion-based editing system, SmartDJ translates broad language prompts into smaller editing steps and executes them with improved quality... Read More
Five from Penn Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences News / April 24, 2026 Penn Engineering's Mark G. Allen and Duncan Watts among faculty recognized for contributions to the applied, biological, social, natural, physical and behavioral sciences. Read More
Where Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and AI Meet News / April 20, 2026 Assistant Professor Lingjie Liu uses AI both as a subject of research and as a core methodology for building new 3D visual computing systems. Read More
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. Read More
Twelve ASSET Center Ph.D. Students Named 2026 AWS Fellows News / April 13, 2026 Through the ASSET (AI-Enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy) Center, 12 exceptional doctoral students advancing the frontiers of trustworthy artificial intelligence will receive $840,000 in funding for research and mentoring support as 2026 Amazon Web Services (AWS) ASSET Fellows. Supported by a long-standing relationship between the ASSET Center and AWS,... Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Two Penn Engineers Receive 2026 Lindback Awards News / April 8, 2026 Two members of the Penn Engineering faculty, Chris Callison-Burch and Gad Allon, are recipients of 2026 Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching. These awards are the highest teaching honors awarded by the University to members of the faculty. Read More
