Weekly Media Update

Week of September 26, 2025

2025 AI Research Mixer

Thank you to all who joined our 2025 AI Research Mixer, co-hosted by the ASSET Center for Trustworthy AI, IDEAS (Innovation in Data Engineering and Science), the Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences, DDDI (Data Driven Discovery Initiative) and Penn AI! We had thirteen great faculty talks, over 30 student/postdoc posters, and Jenn Wortman Vaughan (GEng’06, Gr’09), Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, delivered the keynote on generative AI.

Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows

In recent years, neuroscientists have identified an important phenomenon: brain synchrony, in which brain activation in two or more people increases and decreases in similar regions at similar times. Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others, writes Emily Falk for Scientific American.

Dean Ball: The World Is Going to Be Totally Different in 10 Years
9/25: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Unpacking the Unintended Consequences of AI in Education
9/24: The University of Toronto SRI Seminar Series | Hamsa Bastani

Tracking Fan Behavior Through Google Sports Trends Data
9/24: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Cary Coglianese on Regulatory Excellence
9/23: The Victorian Government Department of Treasury and Finance | Cary Coglianese

The Conflicted Role of Auditors in Carbon Markets
9/23: Energy Policy Now Podcast | Cary Coglianese

Philadelphia’s Michelin Moment and the Enduring Economics of Stars
9/22: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Psychology in America, a History
9/22: Psychology Today | Jonathan Moreno

Reproducible Brain Charts: An Open Data Resource for Mapping Brain Development and Its Associations With Mental Health
9/22: Neuron | Ted Satterthwaite

Robust Detection of Watermarks for Large Language Models Under Human Edits
9/22: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology | Weijie Su

MAST: Multi-Agent Spatial Transformer for Learning to Collaborate
9/21: arXiv | Vijay Kumar and Alejandro Ribeiro

Scalable Multi Agent Diffusion Policies for Coverage Control
9/21: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

Unrolled Graph Neural Networks for Constrained Optimization
9/21: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Signal Generative Diffusion Models
9/21: arXiv | Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Alejandro Ribeiro

The Impact of the Giga Initiative on Education Outcomes in Rwanda
9/20: TPRC53 Conference | Christopher Yoo

The Regulatory Challenge of Artificial Intelligence
9/20: TPRC53 Conference Panel Session | Christopher Yoo

Overhearing LLM Agents: A Survey, Taxonomy, and Roadmap
9/19: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

Finding Win-Win Paths to Unlocking Federal Spectrum
9/19: TPRC53 Conference Panel Session | Christopher Yoo

Emergent Alignment via Competition
9/18: arXiv | Surbhi Goel and Aaron Roth

AI-Backed Robot Painting Aims to Boost Artist Income
9/18: Yahoo Finance | Michael Kearns

David Hardoon: You Can't Outsource Accountability
9/18: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Breaking Down Records, Rankings, and Coaching With NFL Analytics
9/17: Wharton Moneyball | Shane Jensen

On the Algorithmic Bias of Aligning Large Language Models With RLHF: Preference Collapse and Matching Regularization
9/17: Journal of the American Statistical Association | Weijie Su

Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order
9/16: The MIT Press | Jonathan Moreno

The Impact of Robotaxis on Gig Worker Wages: Early Evidence and Future Outlook
9/15: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Improving Public Health Outcomes via Machine Learning
9/15: 5th Annual Penn Conference on Big Data in Biomedical and Population Health Sciences | Hamsa Bastani

It’s Not My Fault!
9/15: Hidden Brain Podcast | Emily Falk

Open Philanthropy Awards $336K to Map the Impact of Scientific Funding Cuts
9/15: Annenberg School for Communication | Emily Falk

Physical AI and the Future of Robotics
9/14: 2025 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium | Vijay Kumar

Online Omniprediction With Long-Term Constraints
9/14: arXiv | Aaron Roth

Should AI Nudge You or Tell You What to Do?
9/11: INSEAD Knowledge | Hamsa Bastani

Occupancy-Aware Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Valet Parking in Uncertain Dynamic Environments
9/11: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Football Analytics at Work: Probabilities, Priors, and Fourth-Down Decisions
9/10: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Replicable Reinforcement Learning With Linear Function Approximation
9/10: arXiv | Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth

Inter-Ictal Spike Rates Are Not Modulated by Anti-Seizure Medication Taper in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit: A Tale of Two Confounders
9/9: Journal of Neural Engineering | Abba Krieger

Learning With Covariance Matrices: Foundations and Applications to Network Neuroscience
9/8: EUSIPCO 2025 Tutorial | Alejandro Ribeiro

Network Models of Neurodegeneration: Bridging Neuronal Dynamics and Disease Progression
9/5: arXiv | Dani Bassett

Neuronal Activity and Amyloid-β Promote Tau Seeding in the Entorhinal Cortex in Alzheimer’s Disease
9/5: Brain | Dani Bassett

How Advanced Stats Are Reshaping College Football Narratives
9/3: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow

The Penn Information & Democracy Research Grants - Application Now Open
The Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy | Duncan Watts

Accountable AI Research Conference - Call for Papers
The Wharton Accountable AI Lab | Kevin Werbach

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