In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn engineers have created a moisture collection and removal devices utilizing the geometry of simple materials to collect atmospheric water without an external energy source, made up of three-dimensional pyramid structures. Collecting atmospheric water could help adapt to both severe dry spells and inundating amounts of precipitation by providing a source of freshwater or dehumidifying humid places.
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The gift, from the Linda Ye and Robin Ren Family Foundation, will fund the construction of a state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance facility, which includes a suite, instrumentation lab and office, in the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology building.
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Penn Engineering’s ASSET Center aims to make AI-enabled systems more safe, explainable, and trustworthy. ASSET’s first funding collaboration is with Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics, which have launched a series of seed grants that will fund research at the intersection of AI and healthcare.
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The Venture Lab, a collaboration between Penn Engineering, the Wharton School, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, hosts a Startup Challenge each year, which provides a comprehensive platform to help Penn student entrepreneurs and their teams develop and launch their businesses, and awards $300,000 to launch their ideas into reality.
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Eric Stach, Deep Jariwala, and Troy Olsson earned this year’s Nokia Bell Labs Prize, with their proposal for “disruptive innovations that will define the next industrial revolution.”
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The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, whose research interests lie at the intersection of new materials, surface science and solid-state devices for computing, sensing, opto-electronics and energy harvesting applications, is being honored “for breakthrough contributions in logic, memory and photonic devices from low-dimensional semiconductors.”
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The professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science is among the members of the IEEE Computer Society named for contributions to reconfigurable computing, spatial programmable architectures, and interconnect design and optimization.
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The J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in Bioengineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn Engineering has been awarded for groundbreaking contributions to modeling and control of brain networks in the contexts of learning, disease and aging.
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Penn Engineers used a counterintuitive algorithmic strategy called “metadynamics” to find rare low-energy canyons in glassy materials. Their breakthrough suggests the algorithm may have a wide range of useful scientific applications, potentially speeding up the pace of computational protein folding and eliminating the need for large data sets in machine learning.
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With only two levels of superposition, the qubits used in today’s quantum communication technologies have limited storage space and low tolerance for interference. The Feng Lab’s hyperdimensional microlaser generates qudits, photons with four simultaneous levels of information. The increase in dimension makes for robust quantum communication technology better suited for real-world applications.
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