AI at the Eyelid: Glasses That Track Health Through Your Blinks News / October 1, 2025 Penn researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered device that turns ordinary glasses into a smart, energy-efficient health monitor by watching you blink. Read More
Penn Engineers Unveil Generative AI Model that Designs New Antibiotics News / September 2, 2025 Uniting expertise in AI design and antibiotic discovery, two Penn labs have created a generative model that could redefine drug development. Read More
Reengineering AI to Target “Undruggable” Disease Proteins News / August 13, 2025 A study published in Nature Biotechnology reveals a powerful new use for artificial intelligence: designing small, drug-like molecules that can stick to and break down harmful proteins in the body — even when scientists don’t know what those proteins look like. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for diseases that have... Read More
Sustainable Computing: Can AI Be Energy Efficient? News / August 8, 2025 As AI advances at breakneck speed, experts at Penn are urgently trying to see if AI can be efficient. Read More
AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data News / July 21, 2025 A Penn-led team has built a groundbreaking tool that uses code-driven synthetic images to help AI interpret charts, diagrams and data-dense visuals. Read More
How Cable News Has Diverged From Broadcast News News / June 11, 2025 Walter Cronkite was often cited as “the most trusted man in America” as he delivered the news on CBS in the 1960s and ’70s — a time when fewer news options created a “shared reality” that scholars argue fostered civic engagement, empathy, and shared national identity. The situation looks quite... Read More
How Penn is Reimagining Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence News / May 20, 2025 In a sunlit conference room in Amy Gutmann Hall, a group of researchers convenes for a regular lunch meeting. Physicists converse with linguists, computer scientists collaborate with chemists, and psychologists speak to engineers. These postdoctoral researchers represent the University’s response to a shifting research landscape prompted by recent advances in... Read More
Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge News / May 6, 2025 To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is to come. On Friday, a trio of Penn Engineering startups demonstrated their aptitude for navigating the unknown by taking home more than $100,000 at the... Read More
Innovation & Impact Podcast: The Future of AI with Yann LeCun News / April 29, 2025 Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun joined Dean Vijay Kumar on Penn Engineering's "Innovation and Impact" podcast to discuss the evolution of AI, how we define intelligence and the possibilities and challenges it presents. Read More
How MLR@Penn Supports Student AI Researchers News / April 17, 2025 Last year, researchers published over 50,000 papers on machine learning — a nearly 50% jump from the previous year. “Figuring out what’s worth reading is hard,” says Alok Shah (CIS’26, ESE’26, C’26), president of Machine Learning Research @ Penn (MLR@Penn), a club that helps students stay on top of fast-moving... Read More
