Innovation & Impact Podcast: The Future of Reasoning with Byron Cook News / October 6, 2026 In this episode of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, host Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering and Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, sits down with Byron Cook to explore how advances in AI are reshaping the way we build, verify and interact with computational systems. Read More
From the RoboRacer Course to the RoboRacer Track News / October 5, 2026 Penn’s RoboRacer/F1TENTH course, launched in 2016, has grown from a classroom project into a global autonomous racing competition, inspiring students Dhyey Shah and Cedric Hollande to compete in the 2026 RoboRacer Championship. Read More
Teaching Robots to Do More with Less Data News / October 2, 2026 Nadia Figueroa and her lab are developing new ways for robots to combine physics, planning and artificial intelligence, allowing them to learn useful skills from just a handful of demonstrations, and adapt when the world doesn’t go as planned. Read More
Penn’s StartUP Fund Announces its First Investments News / September 30, 2026 The Office of the Chief Innovation Officer (OCINO) at the University of Pennsylvania has announced the first investments from its StartUP Fund, a $10 million University-backed initiative designed to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative technologies emerging from research across all twelve of Penn’s Schools. The fund’s inaugural investments... Read More
New Certificate of Study in AI and Law News / September 29, 2026 The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Penn Engineering developed a new Graduate Certificate of Study in AI and Law, now available for students to pursue this semester. Read More
AI Helps Detect Media Bias, Informing Voters and News Consumers News / September 28, 2026 Penn Engineers advance the Media Bias Detector which integrates large language models with near-real-time news scraping to analyze political lean, tone, topics and major events across hundreds of articles per day, enabling new ways to inform voters and study selection and framing bias in the modern news landscape. Read More
Penn Engineering Launches New Master’s Degree in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence News / September 15, 2026 The new MSE in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) brings together two rapidly evolving fields to prepare students to build, analyze and responsibly apply intelligent systems across disciplines. Applications for Fall 2027 open September 15. Read More
Reaching for the stars: Using light to sail through space News / September 14, 2026 The word “liftoff” will come up a lot between now and the end of September. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is slated to launch Aug. 30, followed by a Roscosmos Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), targeted for Sept. 9. Then, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, which... Read More
AI Helps Penn Engineers Improve a Gene-Editing Tool, Even with Limited Data News / September 3, 2026 Penn Engineers used AI to help transform a compact gene-editing protein into a more powerful tool—despite having limited experimental data. Their work also reveals why the best gene editor isn't necessarily the most powerful one. Read More
How the Environment Around Collagen Shapes Its Growth News / September 2, 2026 Collagen helps form the scaffolding of the body’s tissues, but new research shows it doesn’t build those structures alone. Penn Engineers found that the physical properties of the surrounding environment can influence how collagen assembles, with implications for disease and biomaterials. Read More
