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How Vanessa Chan is training Ph.D. engineers for real-world impact
Vanessa Chan.

Vanessa Chan is the Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and vice dean of innovation and entrepreneurship.

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How Vanessa Chan is training Ph.D. engineers for real-world impact

The Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and vice dean of innovation and entrepreneurship is helping students to bridge the divide between technical excellence and real-world impact.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

Opening AI’s black box
Danae Metaxa and the cover of their book “Auditing AI”

Danaé Metaxa is the Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering.

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Opening AI’s black box

Penn Engineering’s Danaé Metaxa on AI audits and how their lab at Penn Engineering is working to make AI systems more accountable.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read

How AI could make autism screening more accessible
A child follows movements from a video in a clinical office setting.

CAMI-2DNet builds on a series of studies that have steadily moved computerized motor imitation assessment closer to clinical use.

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How AI could make autism screening more accessible

Penn Engineers have built an AI-powered system designed to gauge children’s ability to imitate body motions using video, offering a new and effective way to assess for autism.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

Penn Electric Racing’s comeback
Penn Electric Racing’s REV11 car racing on a track.

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Penn Electric Racing’s comeback

The team behind the fully electric REV11 race car overcame technical challenges to successfully compete in this year’s Formula SAE Electric competition, placing 15th overall and earning first place in the Business Presentation event.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

When design meets engineering, students solve the right problems
Sarah Rottenberg lecturing.

For Sarah Rottenberg is the executive director of the Integrated Product Design Program at Penn Engineering and adjunct assistant professor at the Weitzman School of Design.

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When design meets engineering, students solve the right problems

In Sarah Rottenberg’s studio course, engineering and design students are taught to rethink the earliest stage of design: understanding the problem itself.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

NATO explores the future of robotics at Penn’s GRASP Lab

NATO explores the future of robotics at Penn’s GRASP Lab

A NATO Allied Command Transformation delegation visited the Penn’s GRASP Lab in June to learn how researchers are advancing robotics and autonomous systems with applications spanning disaster response, infrastructure, and national security.

Virtual patients, real-world training

Virtual patients, real-world training

Researchers from Penn’s Linguistic Data Consortium have received a two-year, $4 million grant to collaborate on STELLAR (Steering-Vector Enhanced LLM Agents for Realistic Digital Twins in Mental Health), an AI-driven simulation of virtual patients that allows trainees to practice clinical interviews.

A crash course in AI

A crash course in AI

Early this summer, some 75 faculty members across several Penn Schools attended a two-day program led by Bhuvnesh Jain, co-director of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative and Co-Chair of the University’s AI Council.

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Speed and precision for medical imaging
Rohit Jena in front of computer monitors.

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Speed and precision for medical imaging

A new open-source algorithm dubbed “FireANTS” can be applied not just in medical research, but clinical practice as well.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read