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The assistant professor in electrical and systems engineering will use the grant to conduct research on both online social networks and COVID-19 contact tracing networks.
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The Scialog: Advanced Bioimaging initiative has selected the assistant professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics to be part of its first cohort of researchers. A combination of science and dialog, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s Scialog program is a series of collaboration-generating conferences and grants, focused on a range of pressing scientific issues.
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Endotracheal tubes ensure a hospital patient’s airway is clear when they can’t breathe on their own. However, keeping a foreign object inserted runs the risks of infection, inflammation, and a condition in which scar tissue narrows the airway. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are one way to mitigate these risks, but can harm beneficial bacteria and contribute to antibiotic resistance.
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A fuel cell’s electrolyte determines how quickly the cell’s fuel is converted into energy, but is also responsible for insulating the electrodes from one another. Materials that can achieve rapid proton conductivity while blocking electrons in the harsh environment of fuel cells typically contain fluorine, which increases their cost and environmental impact. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has designed a new electrolyte material that solves some of these problems.
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The Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering also conducts research on soft materials and complex fluids, publishing work on topic areas such as material blends and membrane filtration. He’s also an Olympic athlete, having competed in taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.
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Vijay Kumar, CJ Taylor, Alejandro Ribeiro, Hamed Hassani, and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti will contribute to Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS) research on optimization in artificial intelligence, as well as the Institute’s educational and outreach efforts through a $20 Million grant.
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The Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry,a collaboration between Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, has presented its inaugural Advancing Oral & Craniofacial Health Award to Eugene Ko, assistant professor of clinical oral medicine at Penn Dental Medicine, who will be collaborating with Shu Yang, chair and Joseph Bordogna Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Department Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
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The John Henry Towne Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics received the Award from the Nanoscale Science and Technology Division of AVS, an interdisciplinary professional society centered on the fields of materials, interfaces, and processing.
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The Rachleff Family Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and director of the Center for Digital Visualization is among the eight new members elected to this year’s Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Academy Class.
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Penn Engineering’s Senior Design Competition, sponsored by the Engineering Alumni Society, involves pitching projects to a panel of judges who evaluate their potential in the market. This year, eighteen teams total, three from each department, virtually presented to the panel of judges, who awarded $2,000 prizes in four categories. Team OtoAI, Team mRNA Vaccines, Team PVRE, and Team Phaox took home the four prizes in the 2021 Senior Design Competition.
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