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 Large Database (VLDB) Women in Database Research Award. Sponsored non-profit organisation Very Large Database Endowment Inc., the award focuses on the cumulative lifetime work of 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…
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 OSDI 2020, which will take place during November 4-6, 2020. Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson In their latest installment of informative presentations, Penn Engineering Online Learning invited musician and CIS community member Brandon Krakowsky to discuss how the MCIT program led him to various opportunities within the world of Penn. Watch the full webinar HERE to learn more about Brandon (and Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson Putting in the work to sort reliable info on the internet from the not so reliable requires an amount of time that most of us just don’t have available. With the subsequent pressures of COVID-19 weighing on society, that time is a more valuable resource than 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…
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. His research interests are in computer vision and robotics, and 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 aware” algorithm design. Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth’s new book 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 restored. The document is again available. Want to know what 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 Computer and Information Science, the Annenberg School of Communications, and Read more…