Penn Student Develops a Way for Computer Chips To Run More Efficiently News / May 14, 2026 President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso’s Fluid Silicon platform helps computer chips monitor their own performance in real time, reducing wasted energy and improving efficiency as demand for AI-scale computing grows. Read More
Penn Engineers Create AI Tool to Speed Antibiotic Discovery News / May 13, 2026 By combining generative AI with Bayesian optimization, ApexGO suggests molecular edits that can turn weak antibiotic candidates into more potent ones. The work points toward a more systematic approach to antibiotic discovery, using AI to guide researchers toward molecules most worth testing. Read More
AI in the Physical World: Helping Robotic Arms Solve Problems Using Tools News / May 12, 2026 When Tianyu Li, a doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), and George Jiayuan Gao, former master’s student in Robotics and current research engineer at Dyna, set out to study how robots might better interact with the physical world, they weren’t just thinking about smarter machines, they were... Read More
Solving Real-World Problems at Penn Engineering Senior Design News / May 11, 2026 At the 2026 Senior Design Project Competition, student teams presented projects tackling health, accessibility, climate control and more. Read More
Penn Engineers Shine at Venture Lab Startup Challenge News / May 6, 2026 At the annual Venture Lab Startup Challenge, Penn Engineering-affiliated teams took home more than $200,000, winning the grand prize, runner-up prize and much more. Read More
A Robotic Solution for Safer Tree Trimming News / May 5, 2026 Margaret Zhu and the Serpent Robotics team have leveraged Penn resources to create a tree-cutting robot, improving safety in a dangerous industry. The President’s Innovation Prize allows Zhu to iterate and pilot the device over the next year. Read More
How AI is Changing the Nature of Mathematical Research News / May 4, 2026 What machine learning theorists learned using AI agents to generate proofs — and what comes next. Read More
AI Method Tackles One of Science’s Hardest Math Problems News / May 1, 2026 Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for understanding the natural world. The advance, which the researchers call “Mollifier Layers,” could benefit fields as varied as genetics and weather forecasting,... Read More
Using AI to Help Predict Cardiac Arrests News / April 30, 2026 A Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine team built CAMEL, an artificial intelligence model that forecasts dangerous cardiac rhythms before they strike. Their findings pave the way for a new era of real-time, predictive heart care. Read More
What It Will Take to Make AI-Enabled Robots Safer News / April 29, 2026 Can the same AI safety techniques used for chatbots keep robots from harming people? Researchers from Penn Engineering, Carnegie Mellon and Oxford argue that the answer is no. The group argues that because robots can turn flawed reasoning into physical action, they need a more robust safety framework, one that... Read More
