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 moreBlockchain technologies have captured great excitement in the tech world, not only for their applications to cryptocurrency, but also for their broader ability to support decentralized tracking and coordination. They can be useful for tracking products through the retail supply Read more…
In recent years, it has become clear that the algorithms used by the tools and services affect our daily lives, sometimes in ways not even anticipated by the designers of the algorithms. This has led to great interest in “socially Read more…
Professor Jean Gallier‘s and Jocelyn Quaintance’s text on the mathematical foundations of machine learning was cited on the front page of Hacker News! Interest was so high that the Penn web servers were overloaded for several hours, before service was Read more…
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 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 Read more…
We’re delighted to report that Prof. Vincent Liu, who works in distributed systems and networking, has been selected for an NSF CAREER Award for his grant titled, “A Network Motion Picture Primitive for Network Monitoring.” Vincent is the 15th member 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 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 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. Read more…