AIMBE Elects 2020 Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) announced the election of 156 new members of the AIMBE College of Fellows, including Dani Bassett in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

Five tips to stay positive and healthy during social isolation

Penn CIS Professor Lyle Ungar and Penn psychologist Melissa Hunt offer some suggestions to stay positive and healthy in the face of this new social isolation.

Computer and Information Science

Ubiquity of Data

Mapping the Social Network of Coronavirus

In a recent New York Times article, Duncan Watts spoke about how analysts are racing to model the behavior of humans in order to slow the spread of Coronavirus.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Network Systems: Connecting the Dots

On a recent episode of the radio show Choose the Be Curious, Dani Bassett discussed her work at the intersection of basic science, engineering, and clinical medicine — and how she’s taking on curiosity itself.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

Machine learning identifies personalized brain networks in children

In a new study published in the journal Neuron, a multidisciplinary team led by Ted Satterthwaite used machine learning techniques to show how brain networks unique to each child can predict cognition.

Psychiatry

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

What’s behind some of the market volatility? Algorithms.

Behind all the fluctuations we are seeing daily — sometimes even every minute — in the stock market is a hard, cold algorithm that’s driving trading. Michael Kearns discusses this and more on NPR's Marketplace.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable

New work by Erol Akçay challenges 50-year-old predictions that mutualistic interactions make a community unstable. His work shows that mutualism is compatible with stable communities and that the balance of mutualism with other types of interactions plays determinative roles in the makeup, size, and stability of those communities.

Biology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

How to Build an Ethical Algorithm

Algorithms determine a huge amount about the way we live and work online. They determine what we see online and can tell us what type of healthcare we're going to get. On a recent episode of Fast Forward, Michael Kearns explains how AI systems will change the world for the better—if we design them the right way.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Illuminating interactions between decision-making and the environment

In a new publication in Nature Communications, Erol Akçay presents a unifying game theory model describing the feedbacks that occur between strategic decision making and environmental change captured dynamics that occur in fisheries, in human social interactions, in soil-microbe interactions, and much more.

Biology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Lyle Ungar Named AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected twelve researchers in the area of AI as the 2020–2021 Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellows. Lyle Ungar is being recognized for his work using machine learning and text mining on social media messages to study physical and mental health.

Computer and Information Science

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AIMBE Elects 2020 Fellows

Five tips to stay positive and healthy during social isolation

Mapping the Social Network of Coronavirus

Network Systems: Connecting the Dots

Machine learning identifies personalized brain networks in children

What’s behind some of the market volatility? Algorithms.

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable

How to Build an Ethical Algorithm

Illuminating interactions between decision-making and the environment

Lyle Ungar Named AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellow