Five Trinity students made their way to South Bend, Indiana for the 18th annual ACC Meeting of the Minds conference in April.Thang Lian, Sasha Bacot, Julia Davis, Abby Cortez and Trisha Santanam were selected to represent Duke and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences in the annual research conference celebrating undergraduate research and creative inquiry. Hosted this year by the University of Notre Dame, the Meeting of the Minds invites students from the 15 Atlantic Coast Conference member schools to participate by… read more about Trinity Students Head to the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference »
Dr. Pardis Emami-Naeini, an expert in security and privacy, usability, and human-computer interaction, has won a 2024 Google AI Research Scholar Program Award in the Privacy category, aimed at supporting early-career academics for her project Designing A Usable Security and Privacy Label “Dictionary” with $60,000 funding awarded. Not only informing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Consumer Reports, and the World Economic Forum in their efforts to design usable and informative security and… read more about Pardis Emami-Naeini Receives Google AI Research Award »
Four Duke CS students received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Jonathan Donnelly, who worked with Cynthia Rudin and will pursue a PhD in Machine Learning at Duke. Jabari Kwesi worked with Pardis Emami-Naeini and will pursue a PhD in Human Computer Interaction at Duke. Megan Richards is a recent Duke ECE-CS grad who plans to pursue a PhD in ML. She worked with Mark Sendak at DIHI and Ricardo Henao of Duke ECE. Ruoyu (Roy) Xie worked… read more about 4 Duke CS Students Receive 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships »
Ingrid Daubechies' work on wavelets was a revolution — a tour de force — in the way the information in images and other signals are stored compactly in computers. Image compression can be dramatic: an image could be stored at a minuscule fraction of its original number of bits and visually look the same as the uncompressed image. How is that possible? Imagine an image of a sky with clouds and balloons. There are slight color variations of gray and white within the pixels representing the clouds, slight variations in… read more about The Images of a Legendary Female Mathematician »
Sophomore CS-Chem Major Ayush Jain, Junior Math Major-CS Minor Michelle Si, and Junior Math-CS Major Marie-Hélène Tomé at Duke University, were named 2024 Goldwater Scholars by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Based on academic merit and supporting students who show promise of being part of the next generation of research leaders, this is a prestigious national award for undergraduates in mathematics, natural science, and engineering. Congratulations! read more about Duke CS Undergraduates Win Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships »
Ruoxi Chen, Duke CS-Econ Alumnus and Harvard Business School MBA, was recently welcomed to the Chinese-American Planning Council's (CPC's) Board of Directors. In this role, he will collaborate with the CPC team to advance their mission of enhancing the well-being and improving the experience of immigrant communities in New York City. Chen is currently Managing Director and Partner at Warburg Pincus, and also a member of the Board of Directors of Simtra Biopharma Solutions and Sotera Health. Previously, he worked at the… read more about CPC Welcoms Duke CS-Econ Alumnus Ruoxi Chen to Board of Directors »
Cynthia Rudin, Duke CS, ECE, Statistics, and B&B Professor was a member of the National Academies Committee on Facial Recognition Technology. In this new interview, she discusses critical privacy and ethical issues with FRT and explains some of the consensus report’s key recommendations for mitigating potential harms. Read More read more about The Flip Side of Safety is an Attack on Privacy: Rudin on Regulating Face Recognition Technology »
Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 32 faculty and will recognize them in a ceremony at the Washington Duke Inn on May 23. “I am very pleased to honor these faculty members with distinguished professorships,” said President Vincent Price. “Their outstanding scholarship has advanced knowledge across a wide variety of fields and made a positive impact on society, and I am proud to have them as colleagues.” Distinguished professorships honor faculty who are well-established members of the Duke… read more about Five Trinity Faculty Members Among Those Awarded New Distinguished Professorships for 2024 »
If you bought a phone in the past few years, chances are you barely ever type your password anymore: your face unlocks not only your phone, but also your social media, your Duke MyChart portal and even your banking app. While extremely convenient, the popularization of face recognition technology (FRT) isn’t without risks. For the past few years, Cynthia Rudin, Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor of Computer Science, has been part of a DHS- and FBI-sponsored National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine… read more about The Flip Side of Safety is an Attack on Privacy: Regulating Face Recognition Technology »
A $10M grant is helping Duke researchers to make computer science more equitable and inclusive for all. Duke CS Professor of the Practice, Dr. Nicki Washington and ECE/CS Professor, Shaundra Daily are leaders of The Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE), and they're featured in an article and videos that highlight AiiCE's commitment to empower future generations of computer scientists. Learn more about the mission, and view the videos that document it: Unscripted with Unscripted Reels. read more about Creating Inclusivity in Computing: AiiCE Leaders Nicki Washington and Shaundra Daily »
Four Duke CS students were awarded Honorable Mentions from the Computing Research Association (CRA) for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in 2023-2024. Harry Chen's research focuses on theoretically and empirically demonstrating that simple machine learning models are near-optimal on noisy datasets with Cynthia Rudin and Ron Parr. Michelle Qiu works on interdisciplinary natural language processing applications with Cynthia Rudin. Dennis Tang's current… read more about Duke CS Students Win 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards »
Duke CS PhD Laura Grit is VP, Distinguished Engineer & Technical Advisor to the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Adam Selipsky. She specializes in the areas of cloud infrastructure efficiency, large scale enterprise migration to the cloud, resiliency in application architecture, and devops productivity. In addition to other initiatives, Laura led: The Amazon.com migration from on-premises data centers to AWS services; The Amazon Women in Engineering affinity group, of which she is now an Executive Sponsor; and The… read more about Duke CS PhD and Amazon Technical Advisor Laura Grit's Nontraditional Career Journey »
Yiran Chen, Duke CS/ ECE Professor and Jungsang Kim, former Duke CS, current ECE/ Physics Professor were elected to the rank of Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The highest professional distinction recognizing academic inventors, NAI Fellows demonstrate a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that make a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society. Read More read more about Yiran Chen and Jungsang Kim Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors »
Duke Computer Science placed in the top eight percent of >8K students and >500 colleges and universities in the recent National Cyber League (NCL) competition. The NCL competition tested students against practical cybersecurity challenges likely to be faced in the workforce, like identifying hackers from forensic data, penetration testing and auditing vulnerable websites, recovering from ransomware attacks, and more. Explore the National Cyber League (NCL) Fall 2023 Power Rankings. Coached by CS Instructor Alexis… read more about Duke CS Team Finishes in Top 8% at National Cyber League Competition »
Duke Computer Science's Theory Group members are honored to have eight (8) papers accepted at the January 2024 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) conference, with six (6) of the Duke CS papers co-written by our graduate students. The premier international conference on algorithms research, SODA will be held in Alexandria, VA, USA, January 7-10, 2024. SODA is cosponsored by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics and the Association for Computing… read more about 8 Duke CS Papers Accepted to SODA 2024 »
Duke CS celebrated our first 50 years at our recent anniversary celebration in September 2023 with a program of distinguished talks from industry and academia. Check out videos, photos, an article about departmental history, and more. read more about Duke CS 50th Anniversary »
AiiCE The Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE) is a national partnership that aims to disrupt the norms that currently exist in computing education, while developing equitable environments for historically underrepresented groups. Duke CS graduate student Jabari Kwesi and undergraduate student Kiara de Lande actively and creatively participate in AiiCE efforts to cultivate identity-inclusive environments within computing education. Accomplishments Affirming that he's privileged to work as an AiiCE… read more about Duke CS Students Make a Difference by Improving Systemic Inequities in Computing Education »
