Leadership
René Vidal, Rachleff University Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering in Penn Engineering and in the Department of Radiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, is the IDEAS Center’s inaugural director. Vidal’s own research focuses on the mathematical foundations of deep learning and its applications in computer vision and biomedical data science.
René Vidal
Director of the Innovation in Data Engineering and Science Initiative
Faculty Recruitment
Thanks to a major $750 million investment in science, engineering and medicine, IDEAS is engaged in an aggressive hiring effort for multiple tenured or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science (DS) with an emphasis in the following research areas:
Foundations of AI/ML/DS
Understanding the mathematical foundations of AI/ML/DS to enable the development of the next generation of data-driven methods.
Scientific AI/ML/DS
Data-driven approaches that can transform scientific discovery and modeling of new phenomena across engineering and science.
Trustworthy AI/ML/DS
Design and engineering of fair, ethical, explainable, robust, safe, and trustworthy data-driven autonomous systems.
Bio-inspired AI/ML/DS
Developing new paradigms for bridging the gap between human and machine learning, bio-inspired computing, and AI in health.
Accepting applications
Amy Gutmann Hall
Opening Fall 2024
Amy Gutmann Hall is slated to be the new home for data engineering and science at Penn, and will serve as a hub for cross-disciplinary collaborations that harness research and data across Penn's 12 schools and numerous academic centers. Including active learning classrooms, collaborative spaces for student projects, and a data science hub for the entire Penn community, Amy Gutmann Hall will centralize resources that will advance the work of scholars across a wide variety of fields while making the tools and concepts of data analysis more accessible to the entire Penn community.
Learn more about how Amy Guttman Hall will serve as hub for cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Data Science Hub
The IDEAS Data Science Hub will focus on infusing data-driven approaches into every discipline and sparkling new collaborations with academia, industry, and the next generation of data scientists in Philadelphia’s public schools.
News
Events
- BE Doctoral Dissertation: “Batch effect detection and harmonization methods for quantitative features extracted from medical images” (Hannah Horng)
- Fall 2023 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 2
- Engineering Faculty Teaching Forum: “Being Accessible to Students while Preserving Your Time”
- MEAM Seminar: “Insect Respiratory Biomechanics and Insect-inspired Microfluidics”
- MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Multi-Scale Probing of Colloidal Sedimentation Dynamics in Active Suspensions”