Inventing the Future
Engineering an Olympian
Congratulations to Matt Fallon, CIS’25, W’25, on making the 2024 Olympic team after breaking the American record in the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Fallon took first place with a time of 2:06.54 to break Josh Prenot’s time of 2:07.17 set back in 2016.
Looking to AI to Solve Antibiotic Resistance
To combat the global crisis of antibiotic resistance, a team led by César de la Fuente, Presidential Assistant Professor at Penn Engineering, has developed a way to discover new antibiotics from ancient molecules using AI. Antibiotic Peptide de-Extinction (APEX), the team’s new tool, rapidly identifies potential drug candidates from extinct organisms like woolly mammoths and giant elk, turning the tree of life into a treasure trove of new molecules.
Brewing Brilliance
Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), regularly joins his colleague Firooz Aflatouni, associate professor and undergraduate chair in ESE, for a cup of tea. Together, the pair discuss history, politics, and of course, science. Most recently, the two devised a novel chip that uses light rather than electricity to perform vector-matrix multiplication, a key mathematical operation in the training of neural networks.
Investing in AI at Penn Engineering
Meet some of the key architects of Penn’s programs in AI and data science in a discussion hosted by Vijay Kumar, Nemirosvky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with Board members Rajendra Singh (PAR’10, PAR’11), Harlan Stone (C’80, PAR’13) and Fred Warren (ME’60, WG’61, PAR’87, PAR’19).
2024 Commencement
Penn Engineering recently hosted commencement ceremonies in celebration of the 2024 Penn Engineering graduates. Watch highlights from the undergraduate and master’s ceremonies here.
Events
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Lipid Nanoparticles Allow Intracellular Protein Delivery for Modulation of Difficult Therapeutic Targets” (Rebecca Haley)
ESE Seminar: “Fluorite and Wurtzite Structure Ferroelectrics. From Fundamentals to Semiconductor Applications”
Summer 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Sami Atiya, ABB Ltd., “The Evolution of Robotics/AI: an Industry Perspective”
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