Penn Engineering
In partnerships with Penn’s 11 other schools, Penn Engineering benefits from a highly interdisciplinary culture and a commitment to innovation that is driving the development, transfer and application of knowledge across the engineering disciplines. This vision is integral to the School’s educational and research programs, and to its work locally, nationally and globally, where its programs engage partners in academia, industry and government.
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Over the last year, Penn Engineering welcomed 11 new faculty across Bioengineering, Computer and Information Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
Assistant Professor and Africk-Lesley Distinguished Scholar of Innovation in Engineering Bioengineering
Asness Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor and Director, Schlein Center for Cybersecurity Computer and Information Science
Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the recipient of the 2026–27 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “advances in understanding and exploiting interfacial phenomena in soft matter and biomaterials.”
Yuanwen Jiang is developing bioelectronic devices designed to work inside the body for the long term. His NSF CAREER Award will support technology that continuously monitors nerve injuries, capturing electrical and molecular signals that could reveal how nerves heal and inform future treatments.
Researchers worldwide use the Green Bank Telescope, the largest steerable telescope on Earth, due to its ability to survey a vast range of cosmic structures—from local objects in the solar system to distant galactic clusters billions of light-years away—with the goal of better understanding how the universe functions and evolves. For this project, Blau and Elgeziry used AI to modernize the programming behind the telescope’s MUSTANG-2 receiver, translating it from IDL, a costly and outdated coding language, to Python, an industry standard in astronomy research.
