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Weekly Media Update

Week of March 20, 2026

A Signal Through the Noise

“Explorer” isn’t one of Duncan Watts’s many titles, but perhaps it should be. As the Stevens University Professor and the twenty-third Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Watts holds appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication, Penn Engineering, and Wharton. He is also the founder and director of the Computational Social Sciences (CSS) Lab, and it’s in this role that he’s charting new territory in the social sciences.

Welcome to AI Month at Penn

AI Month at Penn is a month-long, University-wide initiative throughout April 2026 that will focus on human-centered AI. The month's panels, workshops, lectures and community events will highlight research, dialogues and collaborations that put people at the center of technological innovation. Warren Center affiliates who are participating this year include Shivani Agarwal, Weijie Su, Konrad Kording, Bhuvnesh Jain, and Aaron Roth.

Tanvi Singh, Ekta AI: The Case for Sovereign AI
3/19: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

How Analytics Shape NFL Team Building With Brandt Tilis
3/18: Wharton Moneyball | Shane Jensen

Penn Lab Uses AI Models to Track Political Biases Across News Publications
3/18: The Daily Pennsylvanian | Duncan Watts

80 Transactions to Make $100: The Uncomfortable Math Behind Dollar Tree
3/16: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Neural Networks as Local-to-Global Computations
3/16: arXiv | Robert Ghrist

Effective Personalized AI Tutors via LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning
3/15: SSRN | Hamsa Bastani

On Globally Optimal Stochastic Policy Gradient Methods for Domain Randomized LQR Synthesis
3/15: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Beyond Binary Success: Sample-Efficient and Statistically Rigorous Robot Policy Comparison
3/13: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Self-Reported Side Effects of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide in Online Communities
3/13: medRxiv | Lyle Ungar

Beyond Test-Time Training: Learning to Reason via Hardware-Efficient Optimal Control
3/10: arXiv | René Vidal

Excessive Data Censoring in fMRI Undermines Individual Precision and Weakens Brain-Behavior Associations
3/7: arXiv | Ted Satterthwaite

Linear Control Theory for Jammed Particle Systems
3/6: arXiv | Dani Bassett

Living With AI: How Artificial Intelligence Could Impact the Job Market
3/5: 6abc Action News | Chris Callison-Burch

Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models
2/16: bioRxiv | Ted Satterthwaite

How Flexible Is That Functional Form? Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Theories
1/8: The Review of Economics and Statistics | Wayne Gao

 
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