Jason Altschuler Named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Jason Altschuler has been selected to receive a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes early-career scientists in North America. He is among 126 Fellows, chosen from more than 1,000 nominees, who will receive the two-year, $75,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Nurturing a Love for Math

Robin Pemantle has co-authored a new book called “There is No One Way to Teach Math.” Aimed at middle and high school educators, the book provides actionable materials, lesson plans, and reflections to inspire creative and effective teaching approaches.

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How Engineering and AI are Transforming Human Health

Vijay Kumar hosts the latest episode of the Penn Engineering Innovation & Impact podcast where guests, including Zack Ives, explore how chemical engineering, AI, and biochemistry converge at Penn to power the NSF Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA Foundry (NSF AIRFoundry).

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Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models

Researchers from Penn, including Hamed Hassani, collaborated with Robust Intelligence to expose major security flaws in DeepSeek, the recently announced AI chatbot from China.

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Bridging the Energy Gap: AI and the Future of Data Centers

Benjamin Lee shares insights on the challenges of powering AI's rapid growth and how innovation in energy infrastructure could shape the future of technology on Interesting Engineering's Lexicon Podcast.

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Practical AI for the Working Mathematician

In this video from the Association for Mathematical Research, Robert Ghrist discusses practical techniques for the working mathematician looking to leverage AI language models to enhance their research program.

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Is Moore’s Law Really Dead?

With speed bumps on the path of progress ahead, experts have become at once more contemplative and ambitious about the future of computing technologies. In this Penn Engineering Magazine Q&A, Benjamin Lee digs into the stakes of Moore’s Law and reflects on the consequences and opportunities of its possible end.

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Why Our Brains are So Good at Seeing Causality (and What AI Requires to Catch Up)

Despite huge advances, current AI systems have trouble figuring out causation: the relationship between cause and effect. Konrad Kording spoke with CIFAR about strategies to use machine learning systems to model causality and how likely it is that the field of AI will reach artificial general intelligence in the next decade.

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Q&A: The mysterious flying objects

For more than a month, residents in New Jersey, parts of Pennsylvania, and New York have spotted unidentified flying objects, which local residents refer to as “drones,” hovering over neighborhoods, critical infrastructure and even restricted sites. To learn more about the mysterious flying objects, Penn Today spoke with Vijay Kumar.

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Penn Professor Wins Prestigious Award for Drone Research

Drones continue to evolve as an important way to aid and support humans. In this interview on PHL17 Morning News, Vijay Kumar discusses his research to enhance a drone’s reach and his recent John Scott Award. "We do things that benefit humankind," says Kumar.

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