Weekly Media Update

Week of November 21, 2025

Air Travel Quandary: Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson on Challenges and Solutions

The recent government shutdown exposed long-standing issues facing commercial air travel, including shortages of air traffic controllers and security screeners. Ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel period and expected long security lines, Penn Today spoke with Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson about the need for long-term solutions to reliability and infrastructure issues. “When even small disruptions occur,” Allon says, “congestion amplifies rapidly.”

Surbhi Goel Named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Surbhi Goel has been named a 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow, which will fund her research to understand unpredictable errors resulting from the “black-box” nature of many AI systems. “This award reflects Surbhi’s exceptional ability to develop deep insights on some of AI’s most profound, practical questions,” says Zack Ives. “Her work is helping to shape a future in which AI systems are not only powerful, but also principled and trustworthy.”

Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Law
11/21: SBCA Professional Development Workshop | Cary Coglianese

The Role of Standards in Enabling the AI Stack
11/21: 2025 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review Symposium | Christopher Yoo

“Exactly the Most Exciting Time”: Penn Engineering’s Chris Callison-Burch on 25 Years of AI Innovation
11/20: Penn Engineering Online | Chris Callison-Burch

Tips, Tricks, and Broader Impact of AI in Research
11/20: Learning Theory Alliance Fall 2025 Mentorship Workshop | Aaron Roth

Brad Carson: Sharing AI's Bounty
11/20: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

How Evolving Data Trends Are Redefining Multi-Sport Performance
11/19: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

How Brains and Machines Solve the Binding Problem
11/18: Penn AI + Science Seminar Series | Konrad Kording

Antitrust During the Second Trump Administration
11/18: Penn Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition | Christopher Yoo and Aviv Nevo

Smiles and Sales: The Economics and Oddities of Retail’s “10-Foot Rule”
11/17: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Coral: Bridging Parsing and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
11/17: Brave | Sebastian Angel

From Words to Bonds: The Science of Meaningful Conversations
11/17: The Psychological Quest for Meaning | Emily Falk

AI May Lift Wages — Then Crush Them, Professors Say
11/14: Business Insider | Konrad Kording

Correction: A Conditional Likelihood Model of the Relationship Between Officer Features and Rounds Discharged in Police Shootings
11/14: Journal of Quantitative Criminology | Greg Ridgeway

Baryonic Feedback Across Halo Mass: Impact on the Matter Power Spectrum
11/13: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain

Safe Planning in Interactive Environments via Iterative Policy Updates and Adversarially Robust Conformal Prediction
11/13: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Verification of Sequential Convex Programming for Parametric Non-Convex Optimization
11/13: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Designing Mental-Health Chatbots for Indian Adolescents: Mixed-Methods Evidence, a Boundary-Object Lens, and a Design-Tensions Framework
11/11: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

From Hype to Habit: How AI Is Actually Transforming Business
11/10: Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative | Eric Bradlow

Forecasting Arctic Temperatures With Temporally Dependent Data Using Quantile Gradient Boosting and Adaptive Conformal Prediction Regions
10/28: arXiv | Richard Berk

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