Duke CS Wins Second Place in Bell Labs 2023 Prize Competition

Duke CS won second place in the Bell Labs Prize 2023 competition, which recognizes game-changing innovations. The Duke CS team — Cynthia Rudin, Margo Seltzer (Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia), plus Duke PhD students Chudi Zhong and Jiachang Liu — received the award for their entry "A New Frontier for Trustworthy AI: Interpretable ML Algorithms that Produce All Good Models.” This is breakthrough research in interpretable ML, which includes powerful algorithms that transform human/machine interaction, easy constraint handling (e.g., fairness constraints can be incorporated easily), robust variable importance analysis, and an understanding of why interpretable ML models can be as accurate as deep neural networks for many high-stakes real world problems.

Brief video showing Bell Labs 2023 Prize winners in Bell Labs X/Twitter post.