CIS Seminar: “Learning with Label Noise: A Progressive Approach”
April 21, 2021, 3-4PM Join the Machine Learning Research team at Morgan Stanley for an exciting interactive research talk! Find out more info below, and register HERE.
CompSci Presents: 2021 Student Honors and Awards
The Computer and Information Science Department is proud to present this year’s student award winners: Undergraduate Affairs Committee Awards: Manfred Altman Memorial Award – Vishaal Kumar Ben and Bertha Gomberg Kirsch Prize (Applied Science Prize) – Arun Kirubarajan The Albert P. Godsho Engineering Prize – Pedro Sacramento de Oliveira M&T Read more…
The Pure Challenge of Perception: Georgios Pavlakos receives Rubinoff Award for his work in 3D reconstruction
Imagine a world in which the robots we see dancing on viral videos do so, not because they were programmed to, but because they had seen it in a video. Computer Science PhD alumnus Georgios Pavlakos seeks to help make this a reality. The current BAIR postdoc has received the Read more…
Cyber comfort and security: Sebastian Angel receives NSF Career Award
Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor Sebastian Angel is the latest in a line of astute educators to be granted funding through the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program. Angel and his team received the funds, roughly $125k received to date, to continue research on their project “Tools for Read more…
Kevin Johnson Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Kevin Johnson has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 27th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor (PIK). Professor Johnson joins a distinguished group of interdisciplinary educators who have been appointed to two or more Penn Schools since Pres. Amy Gutmann launched the PIK initiative in 2005. The program’s agenda: “to recruit to Read more…
Vraj Shroff’s Magic Connects allows students to choose the connection they want
The past year has brought us no shortage of resourceful students and faculty developing tools to help mend the social rifts caused by the pandemic. In January, Vraj Shroff (MSE in SE, BSE in CSCI) and two of his teammates joined those ranks. The 3 students developed a new website Read more…
Prof. Thomas Farmer steps up as MCIT Online Program Director
Professor Thomas Farmer has served the CIS and ESE Departments as a lecturer in some capacity for almost a decade. Now CIS is pleased to announce that, in addition to to his role as Senior Lecturer, Prof. Farmer has stepped into the role of Program Director for MCIT Online. His Read more…
In celebration of ENIAC
On February 15, the global computing community celebrated the 75th anniversary of the launch of “Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer,” or ENIAC for short. The machine, unveiled here at Penn in 1946, was the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. This year, computer museum Compuseum hosted a site that allowed orgs Read more…
Doctorates do Valentine’s!
First-year CIS PhD student Alyssa Hwang was yearning for a bit of connection when she decided a Valentine’s Day celebration was in order. “I kind of wanted an excuse to have a party and get together with everyone,” said Hwang. “I like having these big get-togethers on Zoom because it’s fun and I also get to Read more…
Academic Revolution: Professor Sharath Guntuku believes in the power of the interdisciplinary
Professor Sharath Guntuku has not only been deepening his photography skills while working from home this past year, he’s also been reading a whole lot. Of Malcolm Gladwell, specifically. “I’m really amazed by how he uses data to tell stories,” said Sharath. “That makes a lot of sense to me.” Although he’s worked with UPenn as early as Read more…