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 share their data because it contains sensitive personal information protected by privacy laws and regulations. Read more
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 as an Assistant Professor, after spending a number of years at Apple Machine Learning Research Read more
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 his degree at Stanford, where he taught courses in computer systems and in probability. This Read more
We are delighted to announce that, joint with our colleagues in Electrical and Systems Engineering, we will be introducing a new Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence! For decades AI has been a subfield of Computer Science, developing new techniques for machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, Read more
As we start the 2023-24 academic year, I am pleased that we are able to welcome three amazing new colleagues to the CIS Department! Jérémie Lumbroso joins us as a Practice Assistant Professor, after spending a number of years as a Lecturer at Princeton University. He is passionate about computer Read more
In August of 2024, the new home of Data Science at Penn (which will encompass many faculty, staff, and students in CIS) is expected to open. A flurry of construction has happened over this past summer, and on July 26th President Magill, Dean Kumar, Penn Trustee Harlan Stone and his Read more
After a banner year of hiring — with 10 new Assistant Professor hires starting over the next year — the CIS Department is delighted to welcome 3 new colleagues for the Fall: Osbert Bastani develops novel techniques for programming and building that incorporate machine learning components — focusing on correctness, Read more
On Friday members of the Penn community, led by President Gutmann and Dean Kumar, gathered to celebrate the official groundbreaking of the new SEAS data science building, announced by naming donor Harlan Stone as Amy Gutmann Hall! The building will begin construction in early 2022 and is expected to open Read more
We want to extend to everyone a very warm welcome (back) to the campus — after being remote for more than a year! The events of the past year have instilled an even deeper community spirit in everyone, and we eagerly look forward to resuming in-person activities inside and outside Read more
This year, the CIS Department has taken several steps to improve the PhD application process, acknowledging both the diverse backgrounds of students who are interested in graduate school as well as their diverse interests. Graduate school applications are notoriously confusing. This Fall, the department has implemented a new Applicant Support Read more