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Government agencies, healthcare organizations, and research institutions often need to combine information from different databases to solve important problems like tracking disease outbreaks, improving public services, or conducting medical research. However, these organizations currently cannot Read more
This paper investigates how well people can tell if text they’re reading was written by a machine instead of a human, especially when part of the text is human-written and later transitions to machine-generated. The Read more
The CIS Highlights site is one of the department’s many digital platforms that centers prominent research from students and faculty, as well as other interdisciplinary programs and centers affiliated with CIS. Featured research areas include Read more
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
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
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
Written by Ebonee Johnson This year’s Spring 2020 DATS Presentation featured a wide variety of insightful and relevant topics. Below, you’ll find a list of the presenters, in addition to some project goals and key Read more
The past decade has brought a sea change in the availability of data. Instead of a world in which we have small number of carefully curated data sources — instead we have a plethora of Read more
Data is being termed “the new gold,” and the most sought-after job in technology today is the data scientist / data engineer. Penn is proud to provide many options to our students interested in this Read more
Blockchain technologies have captured great excitement in the tech world, not only for their applications to cryptocurrency, but also for their broader ability to support decentralized tracking and coordination. They can be useful for tracking Read more
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
Problems involving learning from ranking and choice data arise in several domains, ranging from sports rankings to elections and from recommender systems to marketing. Indeed, algorithms for these problems have been developed in many different Read more