Category: Faculty in the News
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PICS Professor Ravi Radhakrishnan Named AIChE Fellow
Melissa Pappas The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has named Ravi Radhakrishnan, Professor and Herman P. Schwan Department Chair of Bioengineering and Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, an AIChE Fellow. This prestigious recognition is bestowed upon individuals who have made significant contributions to the chemical engineering profession and exemplify the highest standards of leadership,…
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PICS Director Aleksandra Vojvodic promoted to Full Professor
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Aleksandra Vojvodic on her promotion to Full Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Vojvodic has been a distinguished member of CBE, where she currently serves as the Rosenbluth Associate Professor and Director of the Penn Institute of Computational Science (PICS). Vojvodic leads a research lab focused on theoretical and computational-driven materials design. Her work employs computational…
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Andrew Rappe’s Work in Improving Lithium Batteries
PICS professor Andrew Rappe and Rappe’s research group, alongside researchers from the Max Planck Institue and the University of Cambridge have recently released a paper that, according to Penn Today, “demonstrated the growth of high-quality, single-crystal layers of T-Nb2O5, aligned in a way that allows lithium ions to move significantly faster.” How quickly lithium ions…
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Dani Bassett Featured on “The Psychology Podcast”
PICS faculty Dani Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering, was recently featured on The Psychology Podcast for their episode “How Curiosity Connects Us.” The episode featured Bassett and Perry Zurn, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. The Psychology Podcast, hosted by Scott Barry Kaufman, dives into relevant psychology topics each episode to discover…
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“Curious Minds The Power of Connection” a new book by Professor Dani Bassett
In September 2022 Professor Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn will release a new book through MIT press. Curious Minds The Power of Connection is, “An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.“ Read more about here book here.
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Konrad Kording explains “How to run big (neuro)science conferences online”
Konrad Kording, PIK University Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine recently hosted neuromatch, a neuroscience conference. Due to COVID-19 the conference had to be held entirely online. Despite this limitation, Neuromatch was a wildly popular runaway success with 3k registrants and only cost $200 to host. There was a lot of trial and…
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Professor Paris Perdikaris featured in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) ASCR Discovery
In the article, “Lessons machine-learned” in the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) ASCR Discovery, Professor Paris Perdikaris discusses using artificial intelligence algorithms to combine disparate data types in order to find patterns. We can’t directly measure the quantities we’re interested in, but using this underlying mathematical structure, we can construct machine-learning algorithms that can predict…
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Danielle Bassett Talks with Dunan Watts for Penn Engineering Spring 2019 News Magazine
In July, Duncan Watts will join Penn Engineering as the University’s 23rd Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor. As such, Watts will have primary appointments in the Department of Computer and Information Science in Penn Engineering, as well as in The Wharton School and the Annenberg School of Communications. His research reflects the value of these kinds…
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Aleksandra Vojvodic covers Penn Engineering news for Spring 2019
Congratulations to Professor Aleksandra Vojvodic who is featured on the cover of the Penn Engineering Spring 2019 news magazine. In the article titled, “Leveraging Chemistry for a Green World,” Aleks discusses how many of the problems we face as we move towards a more environmentally friendly future can be solved through chemistry. “All these systems—electrocatalysis,…
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PICS Professor George Ilhwan Park featured in Penn Today.
PICS Professor Gorge Ilhwan Park was featured in an article on Penn Today titled: “Engineering an accurate, affordable model for turbulence in air and space travel.” “George Ilhwan Park, an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, focuses on understanding and modeling those turbulent eddies,…