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    • Research Impact Seminar – Bring Your Research Out of the Lab (Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship)

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    Towne 327

    Learn how to commercialize your research and navigate Penn's innovation ecosystem with Penn Engineering: Entrepreneurship. This is the first part of a series from Penn Engineering’s Entrepreneurship group. Featuring: Andrew Tsourkas, Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Founder, AlphaThera, Inc, Co-Founder, StreamLaunch, Llc and Jeffrey Babin, Professor of Practice and Associate Director of Entrepreneurship at Penn Engineering & […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Dexterous Decision-Making for Real-World Robotic Manipulation”

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    Towne 337

    For a robot to prepare a meal or clean a room, it must make a large array of decisions, such as what objects to clean first, where to grasp each ingredient and tool, how to open a heavy, overstuffed cabinet, and so on. To enable robots to tackle these tasks, I decompose the problem into […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Active Materials and Devices for Biomedical Applications”

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In this talk, I will discuss our recent work in materials fabrication, manipulation, assembly, and manufacturing tailored towards biomedical and environmental applications. The focus is on active materials and devices enabled by materials control across a wide range of length scales. At the nanoscale, I will discuss 3D electrokinetic tweezers, an ultra-precision tool developed in […]

    BE Seminar: “Charting the future of RNA and protein sequence-structure exploration” (Kalli Kappel, MIT/Harvard)

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    RNA and protein sequences dictate their structures, spanning multiple length scales, from molecular conformations to patterns of subcellular localization. In turn, these structures govern biological function. Characterizing sequence-structure relationships is critical for gaining mechanistic understanding, but conventional techniques can be slow and low-throughput. We have developed integrated computational and experimental methods to overcome these limitations […]

    Spring 2024 GRASP Seminar: Yutong Bai, Johns Hopkins University, “Listening to the Data: Visual Learning from the Bottom Up”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    *This seminar will be held in-person in Levine 307 with virtual attendance via Zoom.  ABSTRACT We introduce a novel sequential modeling approach which enables learning a Large Vision Model (LVM) without making use of any linguistic data. To do this, we define a common format, "visual sentences", in which we can represent raw images and […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Engineering hydrogel microstructure to promote meniscus repair” (Karen Xu)

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    JMB Reunion Auditorium 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania along with Drs. Jason Burdick and Rob Mauck proudly announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Karen Xu. Title: Engineering hydrogel microstructure to promote meniscus repair Date: March 11, 2024 Time: 12:00pm Location: Reunion Auditorium in John Morgan Building If you would like a zoom link, please email:  karen.xu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu The […]

    Spring 2024 GRASP Seminar: Saurabh Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Robot Learning by Understanding Egocentric Videos”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    *This seminar will be held in-person in Raisler Lounge (Towne 225) with virtual attendance via Zoom.  ABSTRACT True gains of machine learning in AI sub-fields such as computer vision and natural language processing have come about from the use of large-scale diverse datasets for learning. In this talk, I will discuss how we can leverage […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Lymphocyte Mechano-regulation for Immunotherapies”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In the dynamic field of biomedical engineering and immunotherapy, my recent research unveils the intricate relationship between mechanical forces and immune cell activation, bridging the realms of biology and immunotherapy. This study aims to unearth innovative pathways for adoptive immunotherapies, emphasizing the role of biomedical and mechanobiological insights in broadening our understanding. The core focus […]

    ESE Spring Seminar – “Learning and controlling noisy quantum systems”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Two of the main challenges in scaling up quantum systems are noise and control, arising from the systems' sensitivity to the environment and its exponential complexity. The first step in resolving these challenges is characterizing and learning the noisy dynamics. In this talk, I'll discuss how the very quantum features that contribute to this complexity, […]

    CIS Seminar: “Modern Clouds: Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Cloud computing, which has seen significant growth over the past decade, fundamentally relies on the sharing of hardware resources among users. This approach enhances resource utilization and reduces operational costs. However, it also enables unintended information leakage through hardware side channels. Despite the threat of side-channel attacks, cloud vendors remain skeptical about the practicality of […]

    ASSET Seminar: “Making Machine Learning Predictably Reliable” (Andrew Ilyas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    ABSTRACT:  Despite ML models' impressive performance, training and deploying them is currently a somewhat messy endeavor. But does it have to be? In this talk, I overview my work on making ML “predictably reliable”---enabling developers to know when their models will work, when they will fail, and why. To begin, we use a case study […]

    Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Joseph DelPreto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Using Sensing and AI to Enrich Human Interactions with Machines and Nature”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Coupling advanced wearable and environmental sensors with dynamic AI frameworks has the potential to transform how we engage with machines and with the natural world.  By co-developing intelligent sensors and deployable machine learning pipelines, we can unlock […]