Featured Stories and Events

Lu Chen from Facebook is Visiting

By: Zack Ives | Sep 12, 2014

Penn alumna Lu Chen, from Facebook, will be visiting on Monday 9/15. She’ll be meeting with NETS students to discuss what life is like at Facebook, and to answer any questions. For more details consult the NETS Facebook group.

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NETS Students Explain NETS

By: Zack Ives | Apr 14, 2014

Here is what NETS students have to say about Networked and Social Systems Engineering…

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Our Dr. Jadbabaie to edit new IEEE journal on Networks

By: Zack Ives | Jan 27, 2014

Ali Jadbabaie will become the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions in Network Science and Engineering. This new journal is devoted to the broad area of network science. Read more at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tnse

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Launch of the Warren Center

By: Zack Ives | Oct 10, 2013

On October 18th, the new Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences will launch, which will unite the various research efforts at the graduate (and undergraduate!) level relating to network science, big data, game theory, privacy, and more. This Center is in some sense the research complement to the NETS degree program. Please join us for the kick-off event, which will be highlighted by Prof. Al Roth, recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics!

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Welcome Prof. Rakesh Vohra

By: Zack Ives | Sep 17, 2013

We are excited to welcome a new colleague in the NETS Program, Prof. Rakesh Vohra, as the George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor. Prof. Vohra is a world-renowned scholar at the intersection of economics and engineering. His cutting-edge research in mechanism design, game theory, auction theory and combinatorial optimization bridges not only […]

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