Written by Ebonee Johnson Now more than ever it is critically important for us to address the impending and drastic changes occuring in our global climate: science and our own corporeal experiences demand it. Next week, Monday, September 21 marks the beginning of Penn’s Climate Week, and it could not 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
Written by Ebonee Johnson After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering back home at India’s University of Pune, Tejas Srivastava chose to join the UPenn CIS family as a graduate student (c/o 2021). And we’re so lucky to have him! When Tejas is not listening to his favorite Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson Given the current racial tensions and incidents involving police brutality around the country, the Penn Alumni’s “Antiracist Education and Action” series is timely and important. Starting as soon as tomorrow, the events range from a Zoom chat with Rolling Stone Senior Writer Jamil Smith (Penn ’97) Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson Every year, Penn Health Tech (PHT) hosts a call for proposals that center the organization’s ethos: developing solutions that merge the fields of medicine and engineering. This year, with the ethos still in the foreground, the specific goals changed. “In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we 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 daily sacrifices of service workers making sure we can keep 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 the in-person and group activities that are a treasured part Read more
The Neural Information Processing Conference, NeurIPS, formerly known as NIPS, is one of the leading venues for machine learning researchers. Penn faculty, students (indicated by an * below), and alumni (indicated by a + below) were very well represented! Aaron Roth and Shivani Agarwal served as Area Chairs, and we had Read more