People

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering

Vijay Kumar’s research is in robotics, specifically multi-robot systems and micro aerial vehicles. He works on creating autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and on robot swarms.

• Computer and Information Science
• Electrical and Systems Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Juliana Kwan

Former Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow

Juliana Kwan is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Liverpool John Moores University. She is particularly interested in using weak lensing as a probe for nature of cosmic acceleration, one of the most fundamental questions that plagues modern physics.

• Physics and Astronomy
• Statistics

William La Cava

Former Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow

William La Cava is currently faculty at the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He works to make AI technology deployed in health systems more fair, interpretable, and accessible.

• Biomedical Informatics

Benjamin C. Lee

Professor of Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering

Benjamin C. Lee's research focuses on computer architecture, energy efficiency, and system security. He builds interdisciplinary links to machine learning and algorithmic economics to better design and manage computer systems.

• Computer and Information Science
• Electrical and Systems Engineering

George Mailath

Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics

George J. Mailath’s research interests include pricing, noncooperative game theory, evolutionary game theory, repeated games, social norms, and the foundations of reputations.

• Economics

Jieming Mao

Former Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow

Jieming Mao is currently a research scientist at Google Research New York. He is generally interested in theoretical computer science. More specifically, he is interested in multi-armed bandit, algorithmic game theory, communication complexity and information theory.

• Computer and Information Science

Nikolai Matni

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Nikolai Matni's research interests broadly encompass the use of learning, optimization, and control in the design and analysis of safety-critical and data-driven cyber-physical systems.

• Electrical and Systems Engineering

Sandy Mayson

Professor of Law

Sandy Mayson researches and writes in the fields of criminal law, constitutional law, and legal theory, with a focus on the role of preventive restraint in the criminal legal system.

• Law