ASSET Seminar: “Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Systems: Progress and Challenges” (Eric Eaton, Penn)

ABSTRACT:  Research in lifelong or continual machine learning has advanced rapidly over the past few years, primarily focusing on enabling learned models to acquire new tasks over time while avoiding […]

ASSET Seminar: “Towards Code-Aware Code Models” (Baishakhi Ray, Columbia University)

ABSTRACT: The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in Software Engineering— developers spend enormous time and effort to create new products. With such enormous growth comes the responsibility of producing […]

ASSET/IBI Symposium on Trustworthy AI for Health Care

Organizers: Rajeev Alur (Penn Engineering), John Holmes (PSOM), Insup Lee (Penn Engineering), Qi Long (PSOM), Marylyn Richie (PSOM) Event Description: Artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to revolutionize nearly every field, […]

ASSET Seminar: “Getting Computers to Do What We Want: Programming Meets Machine Learning” (Michael Littman, Brown University)

ABSTRACT: It is immensely empowering to delegate information processing and automation work to machines and have them carry out difficult tasks on our behalf. But programming computers is hard. The […]

ASSET Seminar: “Safety through Agility – Safe and Performant Control for Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems” (Mangharam, Penn)

ABSTRACT: We present three approaches to combine formal methods, control theory, and machine learning for safe and performant autonomous systems.  Safe control for learning-enabled systems: We present our recent progress […]

ASSET Seminar: “The Road to Explainable AI v2.0” (Eric Wong, Penn)

ABSTRACT: “A.I. has an explainability crisis”—Fortune Magazine. If you ask an ML researcher about explainability, you’ll find that there are a large number of interpretability methods with no clear consensus […]

ASSET Seminar: “Efficient and Targeted COVID-19 Border Testing Via Reinforcement Learning” (Hamsa Bastani, Penn)

ABSTRACT:  Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, countries relied on a variety of ad-hoc border control protocols to allow for non-essential travel while safeguarding public health: from quarantining all travellers to restricting […]

ASSET Seminar: “On Testing Properties of High-Dimensional Distributions” (Erik Waingarten, Penn)

Nano Seminar: “Conductive Nitrides for Plasmonics in the Visible Region: Properties and Applications”

Plasmonic nanostructure based on silver and gold that produces LSPR to withstand ultrahigh temperatures without damage remains a great challenge for future ultra-compact integrated circuits, and high-power enabled photonic devices. […]

Penn American Red Cross Blood Drive

There is currently a critical need for blood donors, and members of the Penn Engineering community are invited to participate in a school-wide blood drive. To join in this effort, […]