We’re saddened to share that Professor Norman Badler has passed. A pioneer in computer graphics and AI, his legacy lives on through decades of research, teaching, and mentorship. “Norm’s grace, generosity, and unwavering spirit shaped our community.” Norm will be greatly missed.

Join us for today’s CIS Seminar at 3:30p in Wu and Chen. Eric Pauley (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will be presenting his talk, “Leveraging the Wisdom of Clouds for Internet Security”.

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Join us for today’s CIS Seminar at 3 PM in Heilmeier Hall (Towne 100). Yossi Gandelsman (UC Berkeley) will be presenting his talk, “Interpreting the Inner Workings of Vision Models.” Don’t miss this insightful discussion—we hope to see you there!

Join us tomorrow at 3:30p in Wu and Chen to hear Mark Zhao give his talk on “Thinking Outside the GPU: Systems for Scalable Machine Learning Pipelines”.

TODAY! Elaine Shi joins us from @CarnegieMellon in Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:30p. Come listen to her talk, "Decentralized Mechanism Design: Cryptography Meets Game Theory".

TOMORROW! Elaine Shi joins us from @CarnegieMellon in Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:30p. Come listen to her talk, "Decentralized Mechanism Design: Cryptography Meets Game Theory".

We’re thrilled to announce that Boon Thau Loo has been honored as Penn’s 2024 International Student Advocate of the Year! This well-deserved recognition highlights his unwavering dedication to the well-being of our students.

Congratulations, @boonthauloo !!

REMINDER!!

Join us this coming Thursday for the Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture featuring Hanna Hajishirzi, University of Washington. This talk will take place in Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall from 3:30-4:30 pm.

For more information visit: events.seas.upenn.edu/event/cis-grac…

Join us this coming Thursday for the Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture featuring Hanna Hajishirzi, University of Washington. This talk will take place in Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall from 3:30-4:30 pm.

For more information visit: events.seas.upenn.edu/event/cis-grac…

Join us outside of Levine 302 at 11 for some sweet treats! Costumes are encouraged 🎃

Congratulations to @mic_caprio, a postdoc at the @precise center, who was named the IJAR Young Researcher of the Year, for his promising work and deep contributions to the field of imprecise probabilities!!

Enormous Congratulations to the Penn Engineers Class of 2023 !!!! You are all amazing humans 🎓🎉🎉

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Congratulations Yu Chen for receiving the 2023 Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award! Chen won this award due to his exemplary dissertation and research accomplishments. As a CIS PhD student, Chen was advised by Sampath Kannan and Sanjeev Khanna.

Join us in Berger Auditorium to listen to several speakers and to honor the recipient of the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal, Barbara Liskov!

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Congratulations Nathan White, who has been awarded the 2023 NDSEG Fellowship!

Thank you to everyone who joined us to Celebrate the Legacy of Norm Badler on his Retirement from the C.I.S. Department!

It was wonderful welcoming back Penn alumni who gave wonderful stories of their mentor, colleague, and friend.

Happy Retirement Norm!!

Computer and Information Science 2023 Senior Design Day was a success! Congrats to all the seniors who participated and a huge thank you to all of the TA’s, Staff, and Judges who made the event run so smoothly!

Congratulations Yiping Ma, a Ph.D. student studying computer science (CIS), on receiving the 2022 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship!

Advised by @sebsgangel and Tal Rabin, her interests include cryptography, security and privacy, and computer systems.

Huge congrats to three 2nd year Ph.D. students, Shreya Havaldar, Natalie Maus, and Adam Stein, who have received the prestigious NSF @nsfgov Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award!

@PennEngineering @Penn #nsfgrfp #pennengineering #pennpov #computerscience #phd

Happy International Women’s Day from the C.I.S. Department!!

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#InternationalWomensDay2023

Join @PennAsset’s Seminar Series in Levine 307 or Zoom in 1️⃣ hour presented by @ccb.
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The 2023 Women in Data Science Conference has kicked off @perryworldhouse!!

@PennDATS @PennEngineers #wids #upenn

Today at noon, join @PennAsset Seminar Series in Levine 307 or Zoom: upenn.zoom.us/j/94656176615

@NikolaiMatni, Assistant Professor in @ESEatPenn and member of @GRASPlab and the PRECISE Center in CIS, is presenting “What makes learning to control easy or hard?”. @PennEngineers

Join ⁦@PennAsset⁩ today at noon for the first seminar of the semester presenting ⁦@zacharylipton⁩ from ⁦⁦@CarnegieMellon⁩ !

Please join the C.I.S. Department and the GRASP Lab on Thursday, November 17 from 3:30-5p in Wu and Chen Auditorium to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Max Mintz.

For more information including the RSVP, Zoom link, and schedule, please visit: grasp.upenn.edu/events/dr-max-…

NETS Orientation + new merch @PennNETS @PennEngineers

Happy First Day of Classes Quakers‼️ The C.I.S. Department is so excited to see everyone back on campus! Who’s ready to take on this new school year? #upenn #pennengineering #computerscience #Penn2026

EMBS 2021 Graduate, Celine Lee, talks with @CIS_Penn Professor @j_gottschlich (Principal AI Scientist and Director/Founder of Machine Programming Research at Intel Labs) about her journey to Penn and machine programming.
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CIS Fall 2021 Colloquium Series Presents:

“From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World“ w/ speaker @drfeifei ( @Stanford / @StanfordHAI / @ai4allorg )

November 23, 2021
3:30pm-4:30pm
Zoom

events.seas.upenn.edu/event/cis-semi…

CIS 189 Presents:

“Optimization in Practice” w/ guest lecturer @serdar_kadioglu (@BrownCSDept and @Fidelity )

November 9, 2021
5:15pm-6:15pm
Towne 307 + Zoom

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Join @GRASPlab and incoming CIS Assistant Professor @d_metaxa for “Studying Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems”

November 3, 2021
3-4pm
Levine 307 + Zoom

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Happy Halloween! From CIS and Penn Engineering👻🎃🦇

Check out more photos from our Halloween Trick-or-Treating earlier AND get the details on more CIS Halloween events happening today!
@PennEngineers

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✨CIS Colloquium Series presents:

Professor Jelani Nelson
"Sketching Algorithms"

November 2 at 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Wu and Chen Auditorium

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Technology, Business and Government Distinguished Lecture Series Presents:

Arvind Krishna
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM

“The Future of Business Tech: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation With Hybrid Cloud, AI and Quantum Computing”

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✨✨Faculty + Student Research Highlight ✨✨

✨Don't forget to visit the @CIS_Penn blog for the latest up-to-date happenings within the Penn Department of Computer and Info Science!✨

blog.cis.upenn.edu

Congrats to @CIS_Penn PhD student @KonsKallas and @Penn alums @mgrnbrg and @nikosvasilakis on winning the distinguished presentation award at HotOS 2021, a reputable conference for papers on the future of computer systems research!

View their talk here -->youtube.com/watch?v=dMrfLC…

✨✨The 2021 Computer and Info Science Doctoral Graduates!! Congrats!✨✨
#PennEngGrad #PennEngineeringProud

Visit the newly updated student awards page!!

Learn a bit more about the students who have gone above and beyond this academic yr.

cis.upenn.edu/news/awards/

CIS Diversity Summit Monday -- April 12th at 4pm to 5:30

Please join us!

Summit themes include:

-Increasing community in CIS
-Peer collaboration
-How faculty can help
-How to respond to microaggressions and implicit bias
-The value of a diverse TA force

Join @mkearnsupenn to discuss "The Ethical Algorithm and the Future of Choice"

Feb. 10, 5-6pm
Brought to you by the @WolfHumanities

Register here! --> zoom.us/webinar/regist…

If you didn't get a chance to attend this special event, "Faculty Panel for Black Students in STEM," click below to check out the recording.

drive.google.com/file/d/14aCHYs…

Tune in to @pennmcit 's latest webinar featuring Brandon Kakowski. The current @CisPenn Lecturer and MCIT Alumnus speaks to how the MCIT degree changed his life. @engonlinelearn @PennEngineers youtu.be/BmvalFHPk-4

Tonight!