ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Training Adaptive and Sample-Efficient Autonomous Agents”
AI agents, both in the physical and digital worlds, should generalize from their training data to three increasingly difficult levels of deployment: training tasks and environments, training tasks and environments […]
AI Infrastructure: Foundations for Energy Efficiency and Scalability
Click here for more details. The workshop will explore the state of the art in sustainable computing and share recent research at the intersection of technology, economics, and policy. Through invited talks, […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: ”Manifold Filters and Neural Networks: Geometric Graph Signal Processing in the Limit”
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the tool of choice for scalable and stable learning in graph-structured data applications involving geometric information. My research addresses the fundamental questions of how GNNs […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “Efficient Computing for AI and Robotics: From Hardware Accelerators to Algorithm Design”
The compute demands of AI and robotics continue to rise due to the rapidly growing volume of data to be processed; the increasingly complex algorithms for higher quality of results; […]
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering Symposium Honoring Kurt Petersen: “Small Tech, Big Impact: The Development and Commercialization of MEMS Sensors & Actuators”
For two centuries, The Franklin Insitute has honored pioneering achievements in science, engineering, and industry. As the oldest comprehensive science awards program in the United States. The Franklin Insitute Awards […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Can Robots Learn from Machine Dreams? – Robot Learning via GenAI-powered World Models”
Over the past decade, large-scale pre-training followed by alignment has revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, robotics remains constrained by the scarcity of real-world data. In this talk, […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Engineering and utilizing interactions between spins and light with molecular qubits”
Coupling of spins and light can enable photon-mediated scaling and control in quantum technologies, as demonstrated in trapped atom, ion, and solid-state spin qubits. Molecular analogs of such systems hold […]
Celebration of Community
The Cora Ingrum Center for Community and Outreach is planning its annual Celebration of Community gala to showcase Penn Engineering students, staff, and faculty in their multi-talented richness. The event […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Wavelength-Encoded Nanolaser Particles for Highly Multiplexed Single-Cell Analysis”
Understanding single-cell heterogeneity in biological systems is considered the holy grail of biomedicine. However, conventional single-cell analysis methods are constrained by the destructive readout process of DNA barcodes and the […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “On Team Decision Problems with Nonclassical Information Structures”
Team theory is a mathematical formalism for decentralized stochastic control problems in which a “team,” consisting of a number of members, cooperates to achieve a common objective. It was developed […]