Weekly Media Update

Week of February 27, 2026

Engineering Forward with Tsu-Jae Liu

In the latest episode of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, Vijay Kumar sat down with Tsu-Jae Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering and a pioneering force in semiconductor technology. From co-developing the FinFET transistor that powers today’s most advanced chips and smartphones to leading one of the nation’s most influential engineering bodies, Liu brings a rare perspective shaped by decades in academia, industry and innovation leadership.

Pennsylvania Commission Releases Report on Current and Potential Impact of AI Across the Commonwealth

Two Warren Center faculty affiliates were among the 20 members of an advisory committee that created a roadmap for regulating artificial intelligence in Pennsylvania. Cary Coglianese and Richard Berk spent more than a year studying AI and how other states are responding, assessing its role across major sectors. “Few policy issues today are as challenging and important as those related to AI governance,” Coglianese says.

Penn Professors Advise State-Wide Guidance on AI Regulation
2/27: The Daily Pennsylvanian | Richard Berk and Cary Coglianese

AI and the Dream: Technology in the Service of Humanity
2/26: Penn Engineering | Chris Callison-Burch

Wharton Impact Presents: Sustainable Computing and AI
2/26: Energy Week at Penn | Benjamin Lee

Inside the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Evolving Mission
2/25: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Reliable Learning via Abstention
2/25: The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory | Surbhi Goel

AI Governance Starts at Home
2/24: The Regulatory Review | Cary Coglianese

Agreement and Alignment for Human-AI Collaboration
2/24: The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory | Aaron Roth

Down the Rabbit Hole (On Purpose)
2/23: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Reliable Abstention Under Adversarial Injections: Tight Lower Bounds and New Upper Bounds
2/23: arXiv | Surbhi Goel

Contextual Safety Reasoning and Grounding for Open-World Robots
2/23: arXiv | Hamed Hassani and Vijay Kumar

Evolution, Reward, Curiosity: The Three Sources of Learning Signals
2/23: Konrad's Substack | Konrad Kording

RKHS Representation of Algebraic Convolutional Filters With Integral Operators
2/22: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

Supreme Court Draws a Line With Trump by Curbing Tariff Powers
2/21: Bloomberg | Cary Coglianese

Cary Coglianese on the Tariff Ruling and the Rule of Law
2/20: Penn Carey Law | Cary Coglianese

Pennsylvania Legislature Lays Out AI Implementation and Regulation Road Map: Report
2/20: WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg | Cary Coglianese

Multi-Round Human-AI Collaboration With User-Specified Requirements
2/19: arXiv | Hamed Hassani

When to Trust the Cheap Check: Weak and Strong Verification for Reasoning
2/19: arXiv | Hamed Hassani

Endangerment Finding Repeal — Penn Professors Weigh In
2/18: Penn Climate | Cary Coglianese

Synthetic-Powered Multiple Testing With FDR Control
2/18: arXiv | Edgar Dobriban

Block Designs That Provide Optimal Power in the Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel Test
2/18: Statistical Papers | Abba Krieger 

Blockchain and the Evolution of Accounting Systems: From Double- Entry to Triple-Entry Bookkeeping
2/18: ResearchGate | Kevin Werbach

Size Transferability of Graph Transformers With Convolutional Positional Encodings
2/16: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

Online LLM Watermark Detection via E-Processes
2/15: arXiv | Weijie Su

Personalization Aids Pluralistic Alignment Under Competition
2/13: arXiv | Surbhi Goel and Aaron Roth

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