As we transition into the new academic year, we are delighted to announce that Duncan Watts, Stevens University Professor and the 23rd Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, has officially started as a faculty member at Penn! Duncan holds joint appointments across Computer and Information Science, the Annenberg School of Communications, and 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 with Yoshua Bengio) — will have strong representation from Penn this year! Starting with the Read more
We are delighted to share the news that Prof. Vincent Liu, who works in distributed systems and networking, has been selected for a VMware Early Career Faculty Award! “VMware’s Early Career Faculty Grant program is intended to recognize the next generation of exceptional faculty members. A gift to the researcher’s Read more
Our warmest congratulations to Linh Thi Xuan Phan, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Linh’s work bridges real-time systems and distributed systems, and she is a member of the PRECISE Center, the Real-Time Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems Group, and the Distributed Systems Laboratory. You can read more Read more
As we start the new calendar year, the CIS Department is excited to welcome new faculty members Sebastian Angel and Anindya De! Anindya joins us as an Assistant Professor after spending several years at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2013, after which 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 fields, ranging from statistics to computer science and from social choice to marketing. Unfortunately, however, Read more
We are delighted that Professors Sanjeev Khanna (Computer and Information Science) and Andre DeHon (Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science) were honored by the Association Computing Machinery as 2018 ACM Fellows, for their significant contributions to the computing field. See here for more details and the press Read more
The Neural Information Processing Conference, NeurIPS, formerly known as NIPS, is one of the leading venues for machine learning researchers. Penn faculty, students (indicated by an * below), and alumni (indicated by a + below) were very well represented! Aaron Roth and Shivani Agarwal served as Area Chairs, and we had Read more
The overarching goal of the DELPHI project is to simplify the development of correct and reliable software. Existing methodologies require significant human expertise, such as in the design of appropriate abstract domains and environment models, or suffer from significant barriers to adoption, such as limited scalability and flexibility. This project Read more
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change the way we acquire and handle data — as Internet-connected devices (wearable or implantable medical sensors, environmental sensors, devices) “stream” data back to the cloud for processing, analysis, and real-time decision-making. Consider the example of heart arrhythmia detection below. A key component Read more