Graduate student awards for 2015-16 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Outstanding PhD Dissertation Jiangwei Pan - Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal. Algorithms for Geometric Matching, Clustering, and Covering. Outstanding Prelim Exam Nathaniel Kell - Advisor: Debmalya Panigrahi. Online Budgeted Allocation with General Budgets. Rupert Freeman - Advisor: Vincent Conitzer. Diversity, Fairness and Repetition… read more about Grad Student Awards 2015-16 »
Jun Yang and Brett Walenz (G) have created the iCheck website for checking the accuracy of congressional voting claims. Article | iCheck site read more about Yang and Walenz Develop Political Fact-Checking Site »
Xi He (G), Nisarg Raval (G), and Ashwin Machanavajjhala won the VLDB 2016 Best Demonstration Award for "VisDPT: Visual Exploration of Differentially Private Trajectories." read more about He, Raval, Machanavajjhala Take Best Demo Award at VLDB 2016 »
The Computing Research Association (CRA) published a set of short videos to explain the benefits of pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. Mac Mason (G '14), Susanna Ricco (G '14), and Tiffany Chen (U '06) were featured. On YouTube: Mason and Ricco talk about their work in robotics and vision at Google | Chen talks about her work in bioinformatics at Cytobank read more about CRA Features CS Alum: Mason, Ricco, Chen »
A fast and power-efficient processor developed by Dan Sorin and George Konidaris opens up new opportunities for robots and autonomous vehicles. read more about Konidaris and Sorin Take on Challenges of Robotic Motion Planning »
Sudeepa Roy has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: FIREFLY - Rich Explanations for Database Queries." Total funding will be $550,000 over 5 years. This award will support Roy's research into providing automatic explanations to help a range of people harness Big Data more efficiently. This is NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. read more about Roy Receives NSF CAREER Award »
A two-week Adventures in Alice Programming workshop to teach K-12 teachers how to program and to integrate programming into their disciplines was held. It was led by Prof. Susan Rodger, teacher Chari Distler, and Duke undergraduates Carolyn Sun, Ademola Olayinka (U) and Anh Trinh (U). In addition to programming 3D virtual worlds, the teachers got a chance to step into a real virtual world, the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment. Photos read more about Alice Workshop 2016 Led by Rodger »
Vince Conitzer sees a need to set up the right incentives to attain the goals of Microsoft CEO Nadella's 10 new rules for artificial intelligence. read more about Conitzer Weighs in on New Rules for AI »
Landon Cox, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Animesh Srivastava (G), and other Duke computer scientists have developed software that helps prevent inadvertent disclosure of trade secrets and other restricted information within a camera's field of view by letting users specify what others can see. read more about Cox, Machanavajjhala, Srivastava Develop Video Privacy Tool »
George Konidaris, Dan Sorin, and CS students Will Floyd-Jones (U) and Ying Qi (U) have introduced a specially-designed computer processor for motion planning that can plan up to 10,000 times faster than existing approaches. read more about Team Led by Konidaris and Sorin Develops Motion Planning Processor »
Congratulations to Kamesh Munagala, who has been promoted to professor. read more about Munagala Promoted »
Congratulations to recipients of the 2016 undergraduate student awards which were presented at commencement ceremonies on May 15. Alex Vasilos Memorial Award Friends and colleagues of the late Alex Vasilos donated the Alex Vasilos Memorial Award to the Department of Computer Science to recognize deserving students. This year's recipients: William James Victor (Double major in computer science and mathematics) For outstanding excellence in both fields, for graduating with highest distinction based… read more about Undergraduate Awards Presented 2016 »
The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2015-16 at commencement ceremonies on May 15. Photos read more about Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2015-16 »
Carlo Tomasi has been named the Iris Einheuser Professor of Computer Science in recognition of his seminal contributions to computer vision, effective July 1, 2016. A distinguished professorship such as this is the highest honor Duke can award its faculty members. read more about Tomasi Awarded Named Professorship »
The rapidly growing field of computational social choice, at the intersection of computer science and economics, deals with the computational aspects of collective decision making. This handbook, written by thirty-six prominent members of the computational social choice community and co-edited by Vincent Conitzer, covers the field comprehensively. Amazon read more about New Book by Conitzer »
Songchun Fan (G), Seyed Zahedi (G), and Ben Lee's paper, "The Computational Sprinting Game," has been selected as the best paper in ASPLOS 2016. read more about Fan, Zahedi, and Lee Receive Best Paper Award »
Trey Bagley (U) created a real-life, digital version of the magical clock from the Weasley's house in Harry Potter. Buzzfeed | NPR read more about Trey Bagley Recreates Weasleys' Clock »
Over 300 Pratt Engineering and CS students connected with 37 companies at the 7th spring TechConnect networking fair. The evening started with a panel of industry representatives. The reps, some who are alum, shared information, advice, insights and stories about their organizations, the job market and what they wish they had known when they were students. Web site | Photos read more about TechConnect 2016 Spring »
CS welcomes Miroslav Pajic, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as secondary faculty. Pajic's interests focus on design and analysis of cyber-physical systems and in particular, embedded and distributed/networked control, real-time and embedded systems, and high-confidence medical device systems. read more about Pajic Joins Faculty »
The Department welcomes Assistant Professor of Statistical Science Rebecca Steorts as secondary faculty. Her research interests are in computationally scalable approaches to social science applications, where she focuses on recovering high-dimensional objects from degraded data and determining how to recover the underlying structure. read more about Steorts Joins Faculty »
We welcome Amanda Randles, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, as secondary faculty. Randles is a CS alumna (BA,'05). Her research in biomedical simulation and high performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that she uses to provide insight into the localization and development of human diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to cancer. read more about Randles Joins Faculty »
Bruce Donald has been elected a 2015 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for contributions in computational molecular biology. The award is bestowed on AAAS members by their peers for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications in society. read more about Bruce Donald Named AAAS Fellow »
Entrepreneur in Residence Salman Azhar introduces his students to a set of conventions and pieces of advice to help them make it in the competitive world of start-ups. read more about Azhar Brings Silicon Valley Mentality to Duke »
The Autism & Beyond team at Duke, which includes Robert Calderbank and Guillermo Sapiro, has introduced a free iOS app to detect and study autism in young children. DukeToday read more about Sapiro, Calderbank Collaborate on Autism Detection App »
(Photographed, from left, DSG Landon Cox, Seyed Majid Zahedi, Zhenyu Zhou, Brandon Fain, Nat Kell, and Chair Ron Parr.) Graduate student awards for 2014-15 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Congratulations to the recipients: Outstanding PhD Award Janardhan Kulkarni Advisor: Kamesh Munagala Design of Scheduling Algorithms Using Game Theoretic Ideas Outstanding Prelim Award Seyed Majid Zahedi Advisor: Benjamin Lee Fair and… read more about Grad Student Awards 2014-15 »
Joe Shamblin (S) was presented the 2014-5 Outstanding Departmental Service Award for his outstanding flexibility and support of the department both on a daily basis and through several special circumstances read more about Shamblin receives Staff Award »
inDuke TechConnect 2015, an event hosted by the Duke University Department of Computer Science, Pratt School of Engineering, and Career Center to bring students and employers together for networking and education was held in September. Web Site read more about TechConnect 2015 »
Susan Rodger has been reappointed as Professor of the Practice (PoP) of Computer Science. Rodger has been with the department since 1994. She has played a key role in shaping the CS undergraduate experience through her teaching, advising, and mentoring. Recipient of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award, she is a nationally recognized figure in computer science education. Rodger has also been a tireless champion of diversity in our field. read more about Rodger Reappointed »
George Konidaris is the winner of a Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The YFA aims to provide high-impact fundung to exceptional junior faculty in the first few years of their appointment. Konidaris plans to use the award to fund his research on learning high-level task descriptions that robotics can use to rapidly find solutions to new tasks. read more about Konidaris Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award »
CS is delighted to welcome Sudeepa Roy as an assistant professor. Roy comes to us from the University of Washington where she was a postdoctoral researcher in the database group. Roy received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where she was the recipient of a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Structured Data. She grew up in Kolkata, India, and earned her master's and bachelor's degrees in Computer Science in India from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Jadavpur University, respectively. Roy's research… read more about Roy Joins Faculty »