In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, the professional body and scholarly society for physics in the UK and Ireland.
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A team of researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) have been awarded a five-year, $6 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant with their proposal, “Robust Concept Learning and Lifelong Adaptation Against Adversarial Attacks,” which will leverage insights from human cognitive development to make artificial intelligence systems better at protecting themselves from malicious disruptions.
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How an individual will experience a painful incident comes down to the complex, variable connections formed between several different parts of the brain, which had previously been unpredictable. A team of Penn researchers has shown a way to make such predictions about brain connections from the pattern of neural connections that begin to take shape soon after the first onset of pain.
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Since 2012, Penn’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been traveling to Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán to work on projects and collaborate with farmers on sanitation and irrigation projects.
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Two researchers with The Singh Center for Nanotechnology, one of 16 National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) member sites, have won the NNCI’s annual image contest. Each entry submitted is made using highly specialized microscopes available at NNCI sites, depicting complex structures that are no bigger than a red blood cell, as well as useful patterns with features only a few atoms across.
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society has named the assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering a winner of their Frontiers of Materials Award. Jariwala is an expert in nano- and atomic-scale devices that could have applications in information technology and renewable energy.
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The Optical Society cited Agarwal for “pioneering contributions to advancing complex light-matter interactions in low-dimensional semiconductors, phase-change and topological materials for applications in integrated photonics.”
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In 2017, Brandon Kao of Penn Engineering, and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of the Wharton School, devised a way to use a nanoscale material in the treatment of a form of glaucoma. Their implant idea, VisiPlate, and subsequent company, Avisi Technologies, earned the trio the 2016-2017 Y-Prize, the 2018 President’s Innovation Prize, and a home base at the Pennovation Center.
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The Richard Perry University Professor in Chemistry and in Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded by Clarivate, the analytics company that operates the citation index Web of Science. Citation Laureate candidates are selected from the authors of the .01 percent of studies that have been cited more than 2,000 times, and such citation rates are often good leading indicators of future winners.
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Breitweiser’s research focuses on optically addressable spin qubits and their potential applications to quantum computing and quantum communication. He is one of 24 fellows.
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