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 the in-person and group activities that are a treasured part 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 Engineering’s MSE in Data Science, the Wharton School’s Concentration in 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…
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 wisdom, his incredible dedication to the people around him, and 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…
Blockchain 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 chain, or for allowing one to own digital goods while 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…
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…