Faculty

Penn Carey Law professor Leo Katz explains how the selection effect and judicial strategy can make merit-based rulings look indistinguishable from politically motivated or random decisions.

Economist Jin Liu focuses on international trade and industrial organization in her research.

Wharton real estate professor Benjamin Keys shares how real estate data is shedding new light on everything from smart investment decisions to mounting insurance costs in risky climates.

Wharton professor of business economics and public policy Kent Smetters discusses the drivers of America’s surging national debt and what's needed for long-term fiscal stability.

Villarruel’s appointment as the dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing will be extended for an additional two years, through June 30, 2028.

The Magerman Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering has been named a 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow. The funding awarded will apply to research that explores AI’s potential to create a healthier, more resilient and more secure world.

Joshua Plotkin, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Natural Sciences in the School of Arts & Sciences, is working to bring together the fields of game theory and machine learning, in the hopes of discovering new strategies for solving real-world problems.

For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.

A new book co-authored by Wharton real estate professor Joseph Gyourko, “America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier,” examines the variables that contribute to all-time-high home prices by analyzing 50 years’ worth of data to explain growing housing prices, especially in places that were once considered affordable.

Three Penn faculty members are among more than 40 experts to author a report addressing the persistent challenge of gun violence and proposing solutions stemming from a JAMA Summit convened last spring.