If you are interested in distributed transaction processing, Divy Agrawal, amr el abbadi, Boon Thau Loo and I will present a tutorial tomorrow (June 9, 2 pm) at SIGMOD/PODS 2025. The tutorial covers the basics of transaction processing and consensus (especially BFT) protocols.

We have extended the paper submission deadline for the FAB workshop to June 28. If you are working on distributed transactions, consensus, smart contracts, or blockchains, submit your long/short papers to FAB’24 VLDB 2024. More information: scfab.github.io/2024/

Last week, we took a Road Trip to Boston to host professional development opportunities for our online graduate students including visits to Tripadvisor, MathWorks, CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) & Formlabs for office tours, panel discussions & networking. 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘: bit.ly/3z3Hild

Last month, we officially commemorated the milestone of Penn Engineering Online's 5 year anniversary. Together with our Board of Directors, faculty, students, alumni & staff - we raised a glass to recognize the collaborative efforts & achievements of our first 5 years.

Celebrating excellence!🏆 Congrats to CS Professor Amiri for securing the NSDI 2024 Outstanding Paper Award! SBU College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Stony Brook University Mohammad Amiri #sbu #sbucs #computerscience

Whether you are interested in pursuing computer science, data science or artificial intelligence — we have an online master's degree program to help you reach your academic & professional goals. Applications for Spring '25 admission are open! LEARN MORE: bit.ly/3ztynts

@jiangyuanwen, assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn, joined Anna Shaver on All Sides to discuss smart bandages with flexible printed circuits. These devices can improve the healing of serious wounds and allow for remote monitoring. Listen now: bit.ly/3L7tE3a

In this interview with Philly Mag, Professor Chris Callison-Burch, who serves as Program Director for our MSE-AI Online degree, revealed his thoughts on the angst accompanying the rapid evolution of AI. He also shared why his P(Doom) is "vanishingly small". FULL STORY BELOW:

Thank you for joining us these past few months to reflect on our 5 Year milestone. We want to thank the many collaborators who have supported our journey and will continue to advance our mission to expand access to world-class engineering education! MORE: bit.ly/3IPA8Tx

CreateAccess, a Philadelphia-area nonprofit, provides free classes for young students to learn 3D creation tools. Founded by two Penn alums, Patrick Cozzi (GEN'08) and Liz Dailey (SPP'09), @createaccessorg broadens access to 3D creation. bit.ly/4faGDPN

Kenneth See '21 says he found a bridge between his finance background and his MCIT degree — which he leveraged to pursue a PhD in fintech. Find out how the MCIT Online program prepared him for Doctoral Research in central banking innovations ... READ MORE: bit.ly/3XYdsJm

3 WEEK COUNTDOWN! Spring 2025 applicants who plan to apply for our Dean's Master's Scholarship must submit a complete degree program application - including the scholarship application - by the upcoming Early Application deadline: Monday, August 5. INFO: bit.ly/3whyBPA

Penn Engineering hosted its first social event in Silicon Valley at Reposado in Palo Alto. More than 50 Penn Engineering alumni gathered for networking. The event was hosted by Penn Engineering Director of Alumni Relations Brad Richards, and Senior Associate Dean Boon Thau Loo.

They met with more than 40 alumni at the Google headquarters in Mountain View. They presented an overview of the exciting developments at Penn Engineering. Thank you to all of our alumni who attended and for continuing to build our community in Silicon Valley for our graduates!

Great panel discussion on commercialization and startups by faculty and PhD students. Featuring, PennEngineerGrad dean Boon Thau Loo, David Levine of Biawear, and Andrei Georgescu of Vivodyne. Penn Penn Engineering #PennEngEntrep #innovation #PennEngineeringProud #entrepreneurship

We are hiring a Master's Admissions Manager to oversee the admissions process for Penn Engineering's 14 master's degree programs. We invite applicants with 3-5 years of higher ed experience (especially candidates with Slate CRM knowledge) to apply: bit.ly/4ce2LG6

Mahika Calyanakoti is a #PennEngineering undergrad majoring in computer science. When she discovered a passion for data science, she welcomed the opportunity to get two degrees in four years through Penn’s accelerated master’s program: gradadm.seas.upenn.edu/accelerating-t…

Chris Callison-Burch, Program Director for our new MSE-AI Online degree, shared with Technical.ly that the emergence of these AI programs "will hopefully prepare students to integrate AI into companies of any size in an ethical and responsible way". MORE: bit.ly/3XhcV4J

Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives, Boon Thau Loo, visited Singapore to connect with our Penn Engineering students from Singapore and Malaysia. It was an inspiring gathering filled with insightful discussions, shared experiences, and a sense of community.

(1) This year at VLDB 2024, I’m involved in two research papers, a demo paper, and two workshops (as a panelist and as the program chair). Check them all out in this thread 👇