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…
As we begin the 2020 academic year, the CIS Department is delighted to welcome five new colleagues! Jacob Gardner joins us as an Assistant Professor, after spending a year as a Research Scientist at Uber AI Labs. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Cornell University. His research interests are in Read more…
More can change in one month than most of us had ever imagined. Across the world, we are seeing terrible tragedy, but also the heroic actions of medical workers who are doing all they can to save lives, and the daily sacrifices of service workers making sure we can keep Read more…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn is doing its best to keep our students, faculty, and staff safe. This means adopting “social distancing” to the greatest extent possible, and trying to avoid activities that promote congregation. Sadly, this means the in-person and group activities that are a treasured part 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 datasets, data versions, and data representations . Devices and data acquisition tools make it easy 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 burgeoning field — including Penn Engineering’s MSE in Data Science, the Wharton School’s Concentration in Read more…
We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Kristian Lum to the CIS Department, as a Research Assistant Professor. Kristian holds a PhD in Statistical Science from Duke University, and joins us after spending a number of years at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group as Lead Statistician. Kristian is Read more…