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...
Read moreText carries meaning much richer than its propositional content. What people often remember best about a text are their subjective impressions of how well-written the text was, or how the text was stylistically marked conveying formality, depth of detail and...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreThis 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. 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 Read more…
The USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) is one of the top annual venues for publishing innovative research in computer systems. This year, Penn CIS students, faculty, and alumni have three exciting papers slated to appear at 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
CIS staff member Mike Felker has served as the department’s Graduate Program Coordinator, and more recently Master’s Coordinator, for the Department over the past 30 years! Mike is held in the highest regard by students, staff and faculty for his Read more…
The Computer and Information Science Department is delighted to welcome Dinesh Jayaraman to our faculty. Dinesh joins is after doing postdocs at Facebook AI Research and the Berkeley AI Research Lab. He completed his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin. Read more…