2023 Heilmeier Award Lecture: Dr. Dani S. Bassett
“On Being Curious” What is curiosity? Is it an emotion? A behavior? A cognitive process? Curiosity seems to be an abstract concept — like love, perhaps, or justice — far […]
ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Models to Improve Data Efficiency: Navigation, Reinforcement Learning, and Lie Group Convolutions”
Consider a system which takes data as an input, processes the data with a model, and outputs a decision for a particular objective. We call the measure of the amount […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Towards Scalable Multi-User Wireless Networking in mmWave and Terahertz Spectrum”
Millimeter-wave and terahertz bands are emerging as the most promising spectrum to meet the data-rate and latency demands of future wireless applications, including virtual reality and autonomous cars. Moreover, the […]
Penn Engineering Commencement 2023: Undergraduate Ceremony
Celebrate the Penn Engineering Undergraduate Class of 2023. Additional information is available on the Penn Engineering Commencement website.
Penn Engineering Commencement 2023: Master’s Ceremony
Celebrate the Penn Engineering 2023 Master’s Graduates. Additional information is available on the Penn Engineering Commencement website.
Penn Engineering Commencement 2023: Doctoral Ceremony
Celebrate Penn Engineering’s 2023 Doctoral Graduates. Additional information is available on the Penn Engineering Commencement website.
ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Nano-Optical and Electrical Imaging of Excitonic Semiconductor Interfaces”
As nanotechnology plays essential parts in developing of high performance or new concepts of electrical and optical devices, new class of nanomaterials has emerged to beat conventional optical and electronic […]
ESE & MEAM Seminar – “Enabling Self-sufficient Robot Learning”
Autonomous exploration and data-efficient learning are important ingredients for helping machine learning handle the complexity and variety of real-world interactions. In this talk, I will describe methods that provide these […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Agile Robot Autonomy”
Quadcopters are among the most agile and dynamic machines ever created. In this talk, I’ll show how data-driven sensorimotor controllers can push quadcopters with only onboard sensing and computation to […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Risk-Aware Control and Planning in Unstructured Environments”
Providing safety and performance guarantees for motion planning and control algorithms is a well-studied problem for robotic systems with well-known dynamics that operate in structured environments. However, when robots operate […]