Faculty
Welcome to the 2024-25 Academic Year!
As we begin the 2024-25 academic year, CIS is thrilled to welcome Joel Ramirez from Stanford to our teaching faculty. He will be contributing to …
Faculty
The Electron Microscope of AI: Jacob Gardner’s Mission to Supercharge Scientific Research
Jacob Gardner, Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science, first encountered machine learning during a high school internship predicting hurricanes in his native North Carolina. …
Featured
AI Month, NSF Fellowship, & Enhancing Language Models
In celebration of AI Month, we are thrilled to extend our congratulations to Andrew Zhu, under the guidance of Chris Callison-Burch, for his remarkable achievement …
Students
Penn Students Awarded 2024 NSF GRFP
Four students from the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for 2024. Three of these awardees, Lena …
Students
Penn HCI & NLP Students Awarded NSF GRFP
Four PhD students from Penn’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) groups have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) …
Faculty
Recognizing Joe Devietti: Faculty Advising Award Recipient
Joseph Devietti, serving as Associate Professor and Undergraduate Curriculum Chair in the CIS Department, has recently been honored with the Ford Motor Company Award for …
Faculty
Advancing Quantum Computing: NSF Career Award Fuels Innovative Research
Assistant Professor Gushu Li has been honored with the prestigious NSF Career Award, signaling a groundbreaking venture into the world of quantum computing. The central …
Faculty
Aaron Roth Awarded 2023 Hans Sigrist Prize
Aaron Roth, a Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the prestigious Hans Sigrist Prize by the …
Faculty
PACT, Summer 2023
“Picture a room full of students hard at work on math problems. Some draw graphs on the chalkboard, testing out algorithms. Others shuffle complicated algebraic …
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Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneering the Digital Frontier
Early Years and Academic Prowess Born in 1906 in the bustling heart of New York City, Grace Murray Hopper emerged as a trailblazing figure in …
Faculty
In the Spotlight: Mingmin Zhao and Building a Bridge Between Machine Learning and Monitoring Health
In the past year, the Department of Computer and Information Science has welcomed an unprecedented number of academic professionals to join Penn’s faculty. One of …
Programs
Women In Data Science Conference
On Friday, February 3rd, the fourth annual Women in Data Science Conference was held in Perry World House welcoming speakers from Zillow, TikTok, and Party …
Students
The C.I.S. Blog Presents- “DALL-E Art Gallery”
So far in this semester, our department blog has talked about the growths in our labs and our faculty members careers. We have touched on …
Featured
C.I. S. and Penn Engineering Halloween Celebration 2022
This year’s Halloween celebration for Penn Engineering was a great success! Held in Quain Courtyard this past Monday, October 31, students, staff, and faculty gathered …
Faculty
In the Spotlight: Osbert Bastani and Integrating Machine Learning into Real-world Settings
Many students and faculty alike may recognize the face above as Osbert Bastani. Well that’s because this Assistant Professor is not a new member of …
Programs
DSL and SIG Lab Renovations: Out with the Old, In with the New
As the School of Engineering and Applied Science grows, so do the rooms that house all of the creative minds within our departments. Just in …
Programs
The ASSET Center: Enabling Trust Between AI and its User
Picture this: you’re getting ready to watch a movie on Netflix, popcorn in hand, and several films pop up that have been curated just for …
Faculty
In the Spotlight: Eric Wong and Developing Debuggable AI-Systems
What happens when AI goes wrong? Probably not the Terminator or the Matrix – despite what Hollywood suggests – but rather, something that could still …
Students
Welcome Back C.I.S. Students: Let’s See What’s New!
The 2022-2023 academic year has kicked off last week and summer has officially come to a close. We would like to welcome back returning Computer …
Programs
Computational Social Science Lab’s PennMAP to Expand Thanks to Leadership Gift
The Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania are delighted to announce the expansion of the Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP), an interdisciplinary, nonpartisan research project …
Featured
Happy Halloween! From CIS and Penn Engineering 👻🎃🦇
On Friday, October 29, each department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science gathered together on the West Towne Lawn in the spirit of …
Faculty
Secure Imprecision: Professor Andreas Haeberlen speaks on the importance of Differential Privacy
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This article is one of a cybersecurity-focused series. Last year during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, testing and contact …
Featured
New Penn Engineering Data Science Building named Amy Gutmann Hall
On Friday, October 1, 2021, the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new data science building …
Programs
The new Computational Social Science Lab aims to thrive on mass collaboration and open science
The School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Annenberg School for Communication and the Wharton School have joined together to form the Computational Social Science (CSS) Lab. Established in March 2021, the CSS …
Students
Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti receives 2021 NSF CAREER Award
This article originally appeared in Penn Engineering Today, written by Melissa Poppas. Humans have never been more connected to one another, though the speed with …
Faculty
Professor Susan Davidson honored with VLDB Women in Database Research Award
Professor Susan Davidson in Computer and Information Science (CIS), who has spent nearly 40 years teaching with the Department, has been awarded the 2021 Very …
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The 2021 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching: Professors Susan Davidson and Boon Thau Loo
Professors Susan Davidson and Boon Thau Loo have been awarded the 2021 Ruth and Joel Spira Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Sponsored by the Spira …
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Duncan Watts’ “Everyone’s an Influencer” receives the 2021 WSDM Test-of-Time Award
Stevens University Professor Duncan Watts has recently been awarded the 2021 Test-of-Time Award at the 14th ACM International WSDM Conference for his paper titled “Everyone’s …
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Professor Joe Devietti steps into the role of CIS Undergrad Chair
When Associate Professor Joseph Devietti was an undergrad in the Department of Computer and Information Science almost 20 years ago, the pace and scale of …
AI
TIDES – Building a Trusted Integration Data Exchange System
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 …
Stories
CIS Welcomes New Faculty for 2025!
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 …
AI
Real or Fake Text?: Investigating Human Ability to Detect Boundaries Between Human-Written and Machine-Generated Text
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 …
Stories
Welcome to the 2024-25 Academic Year!
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 …