An NSF faculty award, a surprising discovery about foam and more.
Aaron Roth Receives 2025-26 Heilmeier Award |
Aaron Roth, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer & Cognitive Science in Computer and Information Science, has been named the recipient of the 2025-26 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. The award recognizes Roth’s “fundamental contributions to formalizing, quantifying and enforcing data privacy and algorithmic fairness.”
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Physics of Foam Strangely Resembles AI Training |
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professors John Crocker and Robert Riggleman have discovered that foams — from soap suds to food emulsions — are not static, as long assumed, but instead continuously reorganize themselves in ways that mathematically resemble how modern AI systems learn.
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Nadia Figueroa Receives NSF CAREER Award |
Nadia Figueroa, Shalini and Rajeev Misra Presidential Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, one of the most prestigious honors supporting early-career faculty. Figueroa’s work aims to fundamentally expand how robots sense, predict and physically interact with people in dynamic, real-world environments.
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Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’
The Washington Post
With solar cells and its own propulsion system, the device — co-developed by Marc Miskin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering — is a step toward sending robots into the human body. Read More
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What’s Happening On The Slippery Surface Of Ice?
Science Friday
With winter upon us, Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, provides expert insight into why ice is so slippery. Listen Now
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What's in and what's out for Penn Engineers? Hear which students are bringing new energy into 2026 and leaving the old in 2025.
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Which long-serving professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering is known for influential work in image and vision sensor technology that helps to power the phones and computers we use every day?
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A. George Pappas
B. Jan Van der Spiegel
C. Insup Lee
D. Cherie Kagan
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🗣️ Last month’s trivia was answered correctly by Robert Stoklosa (GME'71, WG’78), who identified George Heilmeier (EE’58) as the inventor of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).
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