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Chair’s Blog

  • CIS Welcomes New Faculty for 2025!
    As the academic year turns to 2025-26, we’re delighted to welcome a number of new colleagues for the new year! (We will have one additional announcement to share on August 1st.) Jiatao Gu joins us Read more…
  • Welcome to the 2024-25 Academic Year!
    We welcome all of our students and faculty (back) to campus. As we start the new academic year, many exciting things are happening! New Faculty CIS welcomes Joel Ramirez to our teaching faculty. Joel did Read more…

Highlighted Research Projects

C.I.S. Strong: Meet Edo Roth

Written by Ebonee Johnson What research/ projects are you currently working on? I’m currently working on research in the field of privacy-preserving data analytics with my advisor Andreas Haeberlen and a group of other great Read more…

3 Penn Papers at OSDI 2020

The USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) is one of the top annual venues for publishing innovative research in computer systems. This year, Penn CIS students, faculty, and alumni have three exciting Read more…

C.I.S. Strong: Meet Tejas Srivastava

Written by Ebonee Johnson After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering back home at India’s University of Pune, Tejas Srivastava chose to join the UPenn CIS family as a graduate student (c/o 2021). Read more…

Penn Has Strong Presence at ACM FCRC

The ACM Federated Computing Research Conference — which brings together 13 academic conferences in computer science, and which will feature a lecture by Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun (joint winners of the Turing Award, along Read more…