Penn Welcomes General Timothy D. Haugh News / September 9, 2026 Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of retired Air Force General Timothy D. Haugh as Senior Fellow in the Schlein Center for Cybersecurity and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS). He will also serve as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House,... Read More
Penn Partners in New National Science Foundation AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation News / July 30, 2026 From the teenage soccer player recovering from knee surgery to the grandparent relearning how to walk after a stroke, physical therapy plays a vital role in restoring mobility and helping people live independently—especially later in life. But what if artificial intelligence could work side by side with clinicians and physical... Read More
AI Platform Could Speed Peptide Drug Discovery News / July 21, 2026 PeptiVerse combines diverse datasets and machine learning models to predict key properties that help determine whether peptides are worth pursuing as drugs. Read More
Penn Engineering Launches New Online Master’s Degree in Technology and Innovation News / July 13, 2026 The new MSE-TI program prepares engineers to expand beyond technical execution into product leadership, applied innovation and cross-functional technology development. Read More
Penn Engineers Develop AI Tool to Design Peptides That Turn Signals On or Off News / July 9, 2026 A new Penn-led AI framework could help accelerate peptide drug discovery by generating candidates predicted to have specified effects, such as activating or blocking receptors involved in metabolism, addiction and cancer. Read More
Opening AI’s Black Box News / July 7, 2026 Danaé Metaxa’s new book explains how tech companies, journalists and policymakers can prevent AI decision making from going wrong. Read More
Transforming Healthcare Logistics With Low-Cost AI News / June 25, 2026 By forecasting demand and correcting for missing data, researchers from Wharton and Penn Engineering developed a low-cost AI tool that helps get life-saving medicines to the communities in Sierra Leone that need them most. Read More
Alumni Q&A: Kaikai Wang News / June 17, 2026 Kaikai Wang (ENG’11), a graduate of Penn Engineering’s Digital Media Design (DMD) program, reflects on how his time at Penn shaped his path in computer graphics and how it brought him and his wife together. Read More
FireANTs Brings AI Speed and Geometric Precision to Medical Imaging News / June 9, 2026 Open-source algorithm combines AI optimization and geometry to speed medical image matching from days to minutes. Read More
Testing AI Against Public Health’s Existing Tools News / June 8, 2026 Penn-led study found that AI chatbots made vaccine-hesitant parents more likely to say they would vaccinate their children against HPV, but did not outperform materials from government health agencies, whose effects also lasted longer. Read More
