Webinar: “Engineering in the Age of AI”
Join Penn Engineering faculty to learn how to harness the power of AI for innovation. Dean Vijay Kumar will moderate a discussion with Michael Kearns, Professor and National Center Chair […]
ASSET Seminar: “Reasoning Myths about Language Models: What is Next?” (Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania)
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesABSTRACT: The rapid progress made over the last few years in generating linguistically coherent natural language has blurred, in the mind of many, the difference between natural language generation, understanding, […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Deep Learning for Unpaired Domain Adaptive Medical Image Segmentation” (Yuemeng Li)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Yong Fan are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Yuemeng Li. Title: Deep Learning for Unpaired Domain Adaptive Medical […]
ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Cellular Cosheaves, Graphic Statics, and Mechanics”
Greenberg Lounge (Room 114), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMethods from algebraic topology enable simplifications and extensions of fundamental concepts in structural and mechanical engineering. Chief among these tools are cellular sheaves and cosheaves - abstract mathematical data structures […]
Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Karl Pertsch, University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, “Building Open-Source Generalist Robot Policies”
Towne 337This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Towne 337 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Generalist robot policies, trained on large and diverse robot datasets, have the […]
CBE Seminar: “Creating Real Steak Without the Cow: Using Insights from Wine and Biopharmaceutical Production to Commercialize Cultivated Meat”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract Between a growing global population and increased consumption of meat from developing countries, it is projected that meat production will have to increase by at least 60% by 2050 […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Do the Twist: Toward Agile Control of an Axially Twisting Robotic Quadruped”
David Rittenhouse Laboratory Building, Room 4C4 209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesEven as they continue to improve, legged robots pale in comparison to their biological counterparts. This discrepancy is at least partly due to robots possessing an order of magnitude fewer […]
A Franklin Medal Laureate Lecture: “Building Therapies Layer-By-Layer”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesRecipient of the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering Lecture: “Molecular and Micro-Structural Mechanics and Design of Soft Materials”
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesSoft synthetic and natural polymeric-based materials offer particular new avenues for the design and fabrication of materials and devices. Engineering the molecular and geometrical structures of the constituent materials, together […]