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5/19/2026
Guangmingmei Yang, a Penn State doctoral student, received the ICASSP 2026 Best Student Paper Award for her work on improving backdoor attack detection in machine learning models. Her research, conducted with advisors David J. Miller and George Kesidis, advances methods for making AI systems more secure and reliable.
4/29/2026
Five non-tenure-line faculty will use Opportunity Grants to fund a project of their choosing during the 2026-27 academic year. Opportunity Grants are designed for clinical, teaching, research and professors of practice faculty to receive funding for professional development through a self-proposed project.
4/27/2026
Thomas F. La Porta, director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, has been named interim Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, effective July 1.
4/17/2026
Ram Narayanan, distinguished professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, has been named a recipient of the 2025 IETE-IRSI (83) Main Award, recognizing his significant contributions to electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering. The award will be presented at an upcoming IETE ceremony alongside the 2026 honorees.
4/17/2026
Ram Narayanan, distinguishe professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, received a 2025 Annual Research Publications Award from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory for his co-authored paper on optimizing coherent distributed arrays.
4/17/2026
Andy Huynh and Trevor J. Barrett, both doctoral students in electrical engineering at Penn State, have been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.
4/14/2026
Penn State is recognizing 42 outstanding graduate students, six of whom are College of Engineering students, with awards that highlight their impact across the University, specifically in the areas of scholarship, teaching, outreach and mentoring. These students will be acknowledged at a special luncheon on April 15.
4/9/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2026 commencement, recognizing top students from each major and ROTC for academic excellence and leadership. The honor highlights their achievements and contributions to the engineering community as they prepare to graduate.
4/7/2026
Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering, is one of six University faculty members who received a 2026 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement. Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of peers reviews nominations and selects candidates.
4/6/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2026 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 9 in the State Theatre. The event marks the second year in which the two awards will be presented during a combined ceremony.
4/6/2026
Four Penn State faculty members, including Qiming Zhang, Harvey F. Brush Chair and distinguished professor of electrical engineering, in the biological sciences, engineering and statistics have been elected to the latest cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
3/30/2026
As a kickoff to Penn State Startup Week, six student teams pitched their startups to a panel of judges, competing for prizes totaling $35,500 in funding in the 2026 Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition. Three of the teams that were awarded funding — Now You Know, Surge and Whirl Pong — were led by College of Engineering students.
3/25/2026
Joshua Mathew, a senior majoring in electrical engineering in the College of Engineering, has been awarded the 2026 Ardeth and Norman Frisbey International Student Award for undergraduates.
3/23/2026
A team of Penn State researchers has developed a portable, electronic sensor system that can monitor multiple biomarkers in wounds and detect early signs of infection or inflammation before symptoms worsen, and potentially before visible symptoms appear.
3/20/2026
Penn State Global has announced the 2025-26 recipients of its annual awards that recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals and academic programs at the University who have contributed to advancing its global engagement goals.
3/17/2026
Researchers at Penn State have designed a new type of field-effect transistor that can facilitate responsive and versatile sensing, even in liquid-rich environments like the human body. Sensors built with the team’s transistors were up to 20 times more sensitive to various chemical and biological signals, like hazardous chemicals in water or the levels of dopamine in the brain, than other sensors built with comparable transistor designs.
3/16/2026
Four Penn State researchers, including Wenpeng Yin, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the College of Engineering, have been awarded Innovations in Data Exploration, Analytics & Technology (iDEA-TECH) Awards from Sanofi, a global R&D-driven, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered biopharma company.
3/16/2026
An undergraduate team of Penn State engineering students earned first place in the Airport Management and Planning Challenge at the University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. The competition, hosted by the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), “encourages students to design innovative and practical solutions to challenges at airports,” according to the ACRP’s news release.
3/6/2026
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 230 academic inventors to the 2026 class of NAI senior members. Among these are two Penn State researchers: Abhronil Sengupta, associate professor in electrical engineering and computer science, and Joshua Benjestorf, faculty researcher and principal investigator at the Penn State’s Applied Research Lab.
3/5/2026
Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, the researchers discovered that lightning-like discharge doesn’t require a storm cloud — it could be made inside everyday material on a lab bench.
2/25/2026
Bhavya Aplash, a fourth-year computer science major with a minor in South Asian studies, recently applied his minor to develop the Hindi Script Learning Tool “Hindi Lipi,” which introduces users to the Devanagari script through a simple, intuitive and accessible design.
2/25/2026
Qiming Zhang, professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, has been named the recipient of the 2026 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his significant and sustained contributions to the field.
2/23/2026
Qiming Zhang, Harvey F. Brush Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering, is one of two Penn State faculty members who has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Barbara J. Arnold, chair and professor of practice of mining engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, is also a member of the class of 2026.
2/18/2026
The School of Engineering Design & Innovation’s (SEDI) Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP) program is hosting a hackathon event, “c0mpiled-6/pennstate” on Friday, Feb. 27 from 4:00 – 11:00 PM in the Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) building.
2/18/2026
Lion-0xA, a team of Penn State students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is one of 10 global finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
2/18/2026
a team led by Penn State researchers reported a novel material made of cheap, commercially available plastics that can handle four times the energy of a typical capacitor at temperatures up to 482 F.
2/17/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering has welcomed nine new faculty members across multiple departments, including several former postdoctoral scholars who have transitioned into faculty roles. These appointments strengthen the college’s research and teaching mission while reinforcing its commitment to investing in emerging talent.
2/16/2026
Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 14 new distinguished professors for 2026, including Ram Narayanan of the electrical engineering department and Gang “Gary” Tan of the computer science and engineering department.
2/11/2026
A key problem facing artificial intelligence (AI) development is the vast amount of energy the technology requires, with some experts projecting AI datacenters to be responsible for over 13% of global electricity usage by 2028. According to Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the key to addressing this roadblock could lie in computers powered by light instead of circuitry.
2/9/2026
A Penn State undergraduate team advanced to the ICPC North American Championship after placing sixth and earning a bronze medal at the 2025 East Central North American regional competition, qualifying for a chance to compete for a spot in the ICPC World Finals.
2/9/2026
The Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) has recognized eight Penn State researchers, including six from the College of Engineering, for outstanding contributions to energy and environmental research, scholarship and mentorship. Selected through nominations from across the Penn State community, the awardees are honored for their collaborative, interdisciplinary work and their commitment to mentoring students and colleagues.
2/6/2026
Vinay Kammarchedu, a Penn State electrical engineering doctoral student advised by Aida Ebrahimi, has been selected as a 2026 iREDEFINE Fellow. He will participate in a national professional development workshop alongside the ECEDHA Annual Conference, where he will present his work and engage in faculty-career preparation activities.
2/4/2026
The Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education has announced the winners of its inaugural Arts and Engineering Competition. The competition celebrates the creativity and innovation at the intersection of art and engineering.
1/27/2026
Eugene Kwek, an undergraduate student in computer science, has received an honorable mention in the 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards from the Computing Research Association (CRA).
1/27/2026
Graduate student Ziheng Fu (Penn State) and Saurav Roy (Indian Institute of Science) received 2nd Place in the Best Student Paper category at the IEEE MAPCON conference. Their award-winning research highlights the collaborative efforts between Penn State and IISc in advancing electrical engineering innovation.
1/14/2026
Swaroop Ghosh, professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, has been invited to serve as an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys. In this role, he will oversee peer review, recruit reviewers, and make editorial recommendations for one of the leading journals in computing research.
1/14/2026
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition. The center awarded more than $152,000 to seven interdisciplinary research projects representing six colleges, including two projects involving College of Engineering faculty.
1/13/2026
Koustubh Phalak, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at Penn State, has been named to the 2025 BITS Global 30 Under 30 list in the Research Leadership category. The recognition honors his contributions to quantum computing research, including optimization, error correction and quantum machine learning.
1/9/2026
Christos Argyropoulos, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, an honor reserved for fewer than 0.1% of IEEE voting members each year. He was recognized “for contributions to the investigation of electromagnetic phenomena in metamaterials and nanophotonics.”
1/9/2026
Xingjie Ni, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has been elected a Fellow Member of Optica, an honor reserved for no more than ten percent of the society’s membership. He is being recognized “for pioneering contributions to the areas of metasurfaces and nanophotonics.”
1/7/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering community mourns the loss of civil engineering alumnus Rick Merluzzi, class of 1979, who died on Oct. 27, 2025. Throughout his life, Merluzzi gave back to the Penn State engineering community through time, treasure and talent. In particular, he and his wife, Kathryn, established the Rick and Kathryn Merluzzi Fund to support first-generation undergraduate engineering students and also provided support to students in the Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) program.
1/7/2026
Two Penn State professors were named to the 2025 class of fellows by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), and Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine. Only a relatively small group of academic inventors receive this honor, which is considered the highest professional distinction, each year. They will be officially inducted at the 15th Annual NAI Conference on June 4 in Los Angeles.
1/6/2026
Quantum computers could become a prime target for malicious hackers, according to Swaroop Ghosh, professor of computer science and of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Suryansh Upadhyay, who recently received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Penn State. They recently authored a paper, set to publish in the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, highlighting the need to develop new defense mechanisms covering not just the software and programs running on these systems, but the physical components that power them.
1/5/2026
A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to design metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials used in advanced optical systems like camera lenses, virtual reality headsets, holographic imagers and more. The method, which was featured on the cover of the October issue of Nanophotonics, uses large language models (LLMs) to accurately predict how a metasurface will influence light, making it possible for engineers to quickly design these nanoscopic materials and predict how they will influence light solely through prompts fed to AI.
12/22/2025
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), a fellow. This is the highest professional distinction available for academic inventors, awarded to only a select group of outstanding professionals each year. Ghosh will be officially inducted alongside the rest of the 2025 fellows class at the 15th Annual NAI Conference on June 4 in Los Angeles.
12/12/2025
The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences’ (ICDS) Mid-Scale Seed Grant Program has awarded over $540,000 in total to 24 Penn State faculty members across eight teams representing six colleges and three campuses — University Park, Behrend and Hershey — that will contribute to one or more of the institute’s research hubs or affiliated centers. Thirteen College of Engineering faculty members are involved in a total of six of the eight projects.
12/8/2025
Harshim Saluja, a junior majoring in computational data science at Penn State, was named one of five global winners in Bridgewater Associates’ Forecasting the Future: A Modern Economics Challenge. Her data-driven forecast on “Modern Mercantilism” used computational modeling and economic visualization to predict how technology and trade will reshape global power through 2035.
12/8/2025
Shagufta Mehnaz, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, received a five year, $632,430 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project, “Privacy Auditing Frameworks and Defenses for Machine Learning Models Trained on Tabular Data.”
12/7/2025
Six materials researchers at Penn State, including three from the College of Engineering, have received the 2025 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, recognizing a wide range of research with societal impact. The award is presented by the Materials Research Institute (MRI) for recent interdisciplinary materials research at Penn State that yields innovative and unexpected results.
12/5/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects. The in-person showcase will take place from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Bryce Jordan Center, while a virtual showcase will take place on Friday, Dec. 12 through Friday, Dec. 19. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
12/5/2025
The Quantum Hub, housed under the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), has awarded Quantum SuperSEED grants to three Penn State faculty research teams. All three teams include researchers from the College of Engineering.
11/24/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State, including Vijaykrishnan Narayanan and Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, recently developed a smartphone application that offers support specifically tailored to visually impaired people’s needs.They received Best Audience Choice Poster Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGACCESS ASSETS ‘25 conference on Oct. 26-29 in Denver.
11/20/2025
The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) has awarded 20 fellowships to University faculty, including seven to College of Engineering faculty, through its Faculty Upskilling Fellowships in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum sciences program. The program seeks to provide faculty members with the opportunity to learn new skills and to focus on professional development.
11/20/2025
Two researchers at Penn State, Rui Zhang and Ranran Haoran Zhang, are working on a project awarded $166,078 from Open Philanthropy to better mitigate sandbagging — attempting to look less capable or powerful — in AI models. In a Q&A, Rui Zhang explained how without preparing for AIs feigning ignorance, the dream of an AI-integrated society could quickly turn into a nightmare.
11/17/2025
Penn State has named William Donato Jr. and Kathryn Donato, Penn State graduates and current co-chairs of the Schreyer Honors College campaign committee, and Donald Furmanski Jr. and Janet Furmanski, longtime volunteers and philanthropists to areas across the University, as the 2025 Fundraising Volunteers of the Year.
11/12/2025
Penn State will celebrate its eleventh GivingTuesday on Dec. 2 — and the College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to be a part of the event by making a gift to support engineering student success.
10/27/2025
Three Penn State electrical engineering graduate students — Tyler Burns, Connor Haney and Wolfgang VonGetzie — received Directed Energy Professional Society Graduate Scholar Awards for their outstanding research in high-power microwave technologies and contributions to the university’s new Center for Excellence in Directed Energy.
10/22/2025
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Rômulo Meira-Góes, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Wangda Zuo, professor of architectural engineering, a three-year, $340,000 grant to develop a novel fault detection and diagnostics system capable of detecting and preparing data centers for unexpected failures like cyberattacks.
10/20/2025
A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded $900,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation to employ biomedical research, clinical data, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling methods to ultimately support personalized medicine for people with Alzheimer’s disease.
10/17/2025
Five years ago, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation established the A. James Clark Scholars Program, a comprehensive scholarship and curricular support program for exceptional Penn State engineering undergraduates who demonstrate financial need. Now, with an additional $11 million investment, the Clark Foundation renewed its support for the program, ensuring that 10 new undergraduate engineering majors at Penn State will receive full tuition, fees, room and board, and curricular enrichment support each year in perpetuity.
10/3/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State has been selected to receive an award worth up to $5 million award through the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program, an initiative to develop innovative semiconductor systems for the evolving demands of modern technology. Penn State will cost share up to an additional $2.5 million for this project, totaling $7.5 million in funding.
9/29/2025
A group of computational biologists in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science analyzed the genomic sequences of 46 mammals to draw conclusions about how genetic variation affects immune function. They published their analysis in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
9/23/2025
Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani, a Penn State electrical engineering graduate student, won the Best Poster Award in the Power Delivery Session at the CHIMES Annual Review. His poster presented a high voltage ratio integrated voltage regulator for 1000–2000?W vertical power delivery.
9/22/2025
Between February and August 2025, the Penn State College of Engineering welcomed 12 new faculty members across various departments, including tenure-line, professional track, and administrative roles. This expansion supports the college’s strategic commitment to academic and research excellence.
9/17/2025
The Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) held its third annual review on Aug. 26-27 at University Park.
9/15/2025
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State has selected eight research teams that span 12 departments across six colleges to receive 2025-26 seed grant funding. Three of the eight teams are led by College of Engineering faculty, and an additional three teams have College of Engineering collaborators.
9/11/2025
Abhronil Sengupta, associate professor at Penn State, has been awarded the 2025 IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award for his impactful contributions to neuromorphic computing system design. He will be honored at the ICCAD conference in Munich in October 2025.
8/22/2025
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) took home multiple wins, including fourth place overall, in its fourth year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which took place June 1-7 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sponsored by SAE International and General Motors, the competition tasks student teams with developing and testing a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course.
8/20/2025
This fall, Penn State will launch a new bachelor of science in artificial intelligence engineering (AIE) degree, one of the first of its kind in the country. The program, housed in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) within the College of Engineering, will be focused on foundations of AI, encompassing both hardware and software, in addition to applications of AI.
8/8/2025
“Wireless tapping” is an emerging form of surveillance where full conversations can be remotely deciphered from the vibrations produced by a mobile phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting people’s privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that full sentences — up to 10,000 words — can be gleaned with 60% accuracy up to three meters, or almost 10 feet, from a caller.
8/1/2025
Dong Xie, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, and collaborators won a Best Paper Award at the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Conference for their work on reducing latency in transaction scheduling using a novel userspace interrupt-based approach. The method enables lightweight preemption for more efficient handling in high-performance data systems.
7/31/2025
Penn State researchers won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE ISVLSI Quantum Workshop for their work on "Q-Fusion," a new method that enhances the efficiency and security of quantum circuits. The recognition highlights the team's continued leadership in quantum computing and hardware security research.
7/30/2025
Rui Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and his research group recently authored three papers introducing new approaches to processing high-resolution images and automatically prompting better responses from AI systems.
7/30/2025
A team led by researchers at Penn State developed a new fabrication approach that optimizes the internal structure of electrospun fibers to improve their performance in electronic applications. They published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physics.
7/28/2025
Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may be solved, thanks to a team of researchers led by Victor Pasko, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, that has revealed the powerful chain reaction that triggers lightning.
7/24/2025
The next generation of high-performance sensors for detecting force that can perform under extreme conditions may soon be a reality thanks to a new project underway at Penn State. The work, led by principal investigator and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Mingyo “Leen” Park, is funded by a recently awarded two-year, $2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant through the Higher-Order Composite Resonators for Extra Resilience (HORCREX) program.
7/23/2025
Alex Mullen, a dual major in computer science and engineering science with a 4.0 GPA, has been named the summer 2025 student marshal for Penn State’s College of Engineering. He distinguished himself through research, leadership on the men's club ultimate frisbee team and internships, and will join General Dynamics in Boston after graduation.
7/23/2025
The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State has awarded its first round of Fox Endowment scholarships to 18 graduate students in 15 graduate programs. Seven of the recipients were from the College of Engineering. More than 600 graduate students applied for a Fox scholarship.
7/16/2025
Dreams, and likely nightmares, are experienced universally across humans and animals, but neuroscientists still do not know why. For the first time, an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers will study the underlying mechanisms of nightmares and their relationship with anxiety-related mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
7/15/2025
Mahmut Kandemir, a distinguished professor with over two decades at Penn State, has been named interim head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He brings extensive research experience in areas like machine learning and memory systems, as well as a strong record of academic leadership and mentorship.
7/14/2025
A Penn State research team led by graduate student Subrata Das has won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery’s Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (GLSVLSI) for their work on quantum computing security. The paper was selected as the top submission from 183 entries and marks the team's second major award this year.
7/2/2025
The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) held its annual awards ceremony on June 20 at the State Theatre, building on its 53-year tradition of honoring excellence among engineering faculty, staff and alumni through the PSEAS awards. The award recipients were recognized in the categories of teaching, research, advising and service.
7/1/2025
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering recently hosted the Semiconductor Technologies and Photonics Workshop June 2-3 at the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at Penn State University Park.
6/24/2025
At Penn State, two researchers are at the forefront of this intersection between computer science and biology. Mingfu Shao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology, recently presented three papers at RECOMB, one of the top conferences in computational biology, which took place April 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea.
6/16/2025
Micah Haack, a doctoral student in electrical engineering in the Penn
State College of Engineering, has been awarded the U.S. Department of
Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
Scholarship. During the summer months and after graduation
for a minimum of two-and-a-half years, Haack will work at the Naval
Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
6/13/2025
Several engineering-focused research projects at Penn State have received GAP Fund support to accelerate the commercialization of innovations in areas such as energy-efficient data centers, advanced manufacturing, electronic waste recycling and smart drilling materials. By bridging the gap between academic discovery and industry adoption, these projects highlight engineering’s critical role in developing scalable solutions to global technological and sustainability challenges.
6/11/2025
A group of researchers, co-led by two faculty from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, developed a tool to streamline the analysis of existing genome assemblies. They tested their algorithm, called “CloseRead,” on 74 publicly available genome sequences and were able to identify errors in these curated assemblies with more accuracy than other existing verification tools, which are not specialized for particularly complex areas of the genome.
