*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom here.  Balancing performance and safety are crucial to deploying autonomous vehicles in multi-agent environments. In particular, autonomous racing is a domain that penalizes safe but conservative policies, highlighting the need for robust, adaptive strategies. Current approaches […]

Quantum processors of today are already capable of surpassing classical supercomputers on certain specialized tasks . A current milestone for the quantum information science community is the fulfilment of quantum computational advantage on a practical problem of interest. The beginning of this talk will outline our technical progress on realizing various high-fidelity quantum gates on […]

Distributed estimation is a central task in modern data science, where datasets are often generated from distributed sources or are too large to be stored on a centralized machine, and communication is subject to bandwidth and privacy limitations. In this talk, we will consider the problem of estimating high-dimensional distributions and their parameters from distributed […]

Emerging nanotechnologies promise to enable a wide-range of next-generation applications - from energy-efficient computing to personalized healthcare. Yet many emerging nanotechnologies face substantial inherent imperfections and variations that have rendered making working systems - and therefore the next-generation applications they promise to enable - infeasible. In this talk, I will describe how by computing advances […]

Many of the activities in cyberspace, from social networking to the use of mobile apps, leave digital footprints compromising the users’ privacy.  As digital tracking technologies become more sophisticated and pervasive, there is a need to understand and quantify the users’ privacy risk, that is, what is the likelihood that users in cyberspace can be […]

*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… Algorithms play a central role in our lives today, mediating our access to civic engagement, social connections, employment opportunities, news media and more. While the sociotechnical systems deploying these algorithms—search engines, social networking sites, and others—have the […]

This special event is part of the virtual programming for Penn Homecoming 2021 and is open to all alumni, parents, and friends. Nemirovsky Family Dean and Professor Vijay Kumar will give a State of the School Update including an overview of the newly established Center for Precision Engineering for Health, which will bring together researchers […]