Center for Precision Engineering for Health (CPE4H)
Dan Hammer, Director CPE4H is focused on how advances in molecular medicine, such as sequencing and the genome, might give way to personalized treatments. Its efforts will catalyze the ability to move healthcare from providing one-size-fits-all solutions to a system that can recognize the unique state of each individual to provide the best care.
AI-enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable, and Trustworthy (ASSET) Center
Rajeev Alur, Director The ASSET Center will act as a catalyst for new collaborations among groups researching machine learning, programming languages, natural language processing, robotics, and human-computer interaction within Penn Engineering. It will also connect them with researchers throughout the University, starting with a series of workshops held at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine that […]
Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)
Mark Liberman, Director The Linguistic Data Consortium supports language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources, such as data, tools and standards.
General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab
Mark Yim, Director; Ani Hsieh, Deputy Director The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is a truly inter-disciplinary research center at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1979, the lab has grown today to be one of the premier research centers focusing on fundamental research in robotics, vision, perception, control, automation and learning.
Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)
Aleksandra Vojvodic, Director The formation of the Penn Institute for Computational Science derives from the observation that computing is an important tool for research in essentially every field of study today; from the physical and biological sciences to every part of engineering to linguistics to medicine to psychology. Computing’s rapidly changing landscape, while presenting immense […]
Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE)
Insup Lee, Director PRECISE is the point of convergence for several related research efforts by the affiliated faculty in the areas of cyber-physical systems, distributed, real-time, and embedded systems, formal specification and verification, control theory, and trust management. Comprised of researchers from the departments of Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering, the […]
Penn Research in Machine Learning (PRiML)
Shivani Agarwal and Alexander Rakhlin, co-Directors The need to analyze and make effective use of the vast amounts of data has made Machine Learning indispensable in many fields of science, medicine and engineering, as well as technology powering modern high-tech industry. Machine Learning addresses the fundamental problems of extracting models and patterns from data. PRiML’s […]
The ViDi Center
Norm Badler, Director The ViDi Center will fundamentally address the connections between visual analysis and re-synthesis problems, primarily involving 3D objects and environments that pose significant and interesting questions in the Humanities (but also in Medicine and Engineering). The ViDi Center will bring together Engineering and Humanities faculty to embark on deeply collaborative investigations to […]
The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences
Michael Kearns, Director; Rakesh Vohra, co-Director The Warren Center for Data & Network Sciences is an incubator of forward-thinking research, culturally impactful innovation, and potent interdisciplinary collaboration that challenges how the world views technology. High-caliber faculty members from across the university have a place to centralize, share and develop their wide range of approaches to […]