ASSET & Warren Center Research Mixer

Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The ASSET and Warren Center will be hosting a research mixer to welcome new PhD students and expose new and current students to the wide range of research in Penn […]

PICS Colloquium: Motion-based rules and solitary waves: ameloblasts and birds

PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Information is usually expected to propagate across a population of active agents such as living cells or birds in a diffusive manner. Yet waviness in the microstructure of dental enamel […]

ESE Fall Seminar – “Beyond the Exit of the Device Miniaturization Tunnel”

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

For the past fifty years, researchers of semiconductor technology have felt like walking inside a tunnel. There was a single path forward – two-dimensional down-scaling of device sizes, also referred […]

CIS Seminar: “Machine learning for discovery: deciphering RNA splicing logic”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Recent advances in machine learning such as deep learning have led to powerful tools for modeling complex data with high predictive accuracy. However, the resulting models are typically black box, […]

ASSET Seminar: “Robustness in the Era of LLMs: Jailbreaking Attacks and Defenses”

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: Despite efforts to align large language models (LLMs) with human intentions, popular LLMs such as chatGPT, Llama, Claude, and Gemini are susceptible to jailbreaking attacks, wherein an adversary fools a targeted LLM into […]