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 »
Vincent Conitzer has been named the Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of New Technologies effective September 1, 2015. The Jenkins Chair is designated for the appointment of a scholar who has achieved national or international distinction and whose work is concerned with the social and cultural impact of information technologies, including the Internet. read more about Conitzer Named Jenkins Chair »
CS is delighted to welcome Rong Ge as an assistant professor. Ge comes to us from Microsoft Research New England, where he was a postdoctoral researcher for two years. Ge received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. Ge's research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms, especially for machine learning problems. Many machine learning problems are hard in the worst case, but are solved efficiently in practice. The key thread running through Ge's work is to identify natural properties of "real-life" instances… read more about Ge Joins Faculty »
Katherine Heller has received a Google Research Award for her project entitled "Bayesian Models for Online Conversations and Bullying Behavior." Total funding will be $60,785. read more about Heller Receives Google Research Award »
CS welcomes Kris Hauser, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as secondary faculty. He focuses on the planning and control of autonomous robots and is part of a a steadily expanding robotics group on campus. read more about Hauser Joins Faculty »
Elaine Fulton (S) has joined CS as the Department Business Manager. read more about Fulton Joins Staff »
Theo Benson has been named a recipient of the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award. The FREP awards unrestricted gifts to support new, exciting Internet research studies and experiments between academics across the globe and their Yahoo Research Scientist counterparts. read more about Benson Receives Yahoo FREP Award »
Debmalya Panigrahi has been named a recipient of the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award. Over the course of the next year and beyond, FREP award recipients and Yahoo Labs scientists will work closely to further research in their mutual areas of interest. read more about Panigrahi Receives Yahoo FREP Award »
The Computer Science Department provided rising sophomores, juniors and seniors with summer research experiences from May to August 2015. In addition to the individual research projects, students also participated in a weekly seminar of faculty and graduate student speakers to learn about other research ongoing in the department. read more about Summer Undergraduate Enrichment Experiences 2015 »
Bruce Donald, Mark Hallen (G), and colleagues have published a 3-D close-up of a designer protein that, if injected into patients, could help the immune system make better antibodies against the HIV virus. read more about Donald and Hallen Work to Outsmart HIV »
The Duke University Department of Computer Science and members of the broader Duke community mourn the loss of Professor Donald J. Rose. Don served Duke for 31 years, including 7 years as department chair. Prior to joining, he worked at University of Denver, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University and Bell Labs. TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS Don worked in numerical linear algebra, focusing especially on sparse matrices, an area in which he made seminal contributions, some of which are so widely known that they are simply… read more about In Memoriam: Don Rose »
Mark Hallen (G) was awarded a Liebmann Fellowship for graduate studies. read more about Hallen Awarded Fellowship »
Alex Hartemink has been appointed faculty director of the Duke Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows (OUSF). The office oversees Duke's eight merit scholar programs and Duke's Phi Beta Kappa Society chapter. OUSF also supports students seeking post-graduation fellowships, including the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman and Fulbrights. read more about Hartemink Named Director of Office of Scholars and Fellows »
A two-week Adventures in Alice Programming workshop to teach K-12 teachers how to program and to integrate programming into their disciplines was led Susan Rodger and Chari Distler, and three Duke undergraduates: David Yan (U), Erin Taylor (U), and Alex Boldt (U). These workshops have been held at Duke every summer since 2008. read more about Alice Workshop 2015 Led by Rodger »
Debmalya Panigrahi received the best paper award at the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures for the paper "Speed Scaling in the Non-clairvoyant Model." read more about Panigrahi Receives Best Paper Award »
The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2014-15 at commencement ceremonies on May 10. PhD Degrees Sandeep Agrawal Advisor: Alvin Lebeck Harnessing Data Parallel Hardware for Server Workloads Qiang Cao Advisor: Xiaowei Yang Understanding and Defending against Malicious Identities in Online Social Networks Yin Lin Advisor: Bruce Maggs Efficient, Reliable and Secure Content Delivery John MacMaster… read more about Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2014-15 »
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 recipient: Michael Gloudemans For excellence in research and coursework including graduation with highest distinction, superb work in courses at Duke, and sophistication and depth in his intellectual achievements. DeNardis Memorial Award Family, friends and colleagues of the late Rebecca DeNardis donated the… read more about Undergraduate Awards Presented 2015 »
Vincent Conitzer has been named Arts and Sciences Professor of Computer Science. A distinguished professorship such as this is the highest honor Duke can award to its faculty members. read more about Conitzer Awarded Distinguished Professorship »
Vincent Conitzer has been named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. Fellows are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. Duke Econ article read more about Conitzer Selected as Guggenheim Fellow »
Meet the newest member of the department, George Konidaris's robot. It will be his primary research platform, to be used in three broad areas: 1) research into automatically learning motor control skills, like opening doors or playing table tennis, 2) learning abstract representations of the world that can be used to reason and plan at a high level, and 3) learning how to manipulate every-day objects - figuring out what they do and how they work; for example, discovering how to operate a microwave, what… read more about Introducing the New CS Robot »
Since 2010, computer science professors have been revamping course COMPSCI 101 to place more emphasis on real-world applications and solving problems in small groups with peer tutors. Many lectures include discussions about Duke alumni who took the course, or professionals doing creative work in the field. read more about Department Overhauls Introductory Course »
Duke Magazine features CS undergrads who use coding skills and imagination to catch cancer early, sustain farmers, and boost safety for athletes. read more about Code is Powerful Blueprint for Ugrad Programmers »
Thirty-one top applicants attended this year's visit for prospective grad students, which was held February 19-21. The event included talks by faculty and students, one-on-one meetings with faculty, a poster session, and a campus tour. Mayuresh Kunji (G) is shown discussing his poster. read more about Graduate Admissions Visit 2015 »
Alex Hartemink is part of a diverse Duke team to receive $5.9 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute to characterize how human lung epithelial cells respond to anti-inflammatory drugs called glucocorticoids. The team includes Medical School faculty members Tim Reddy and Greg Crawford, and the Pratt School's Charles Gersbach. read more about Hartemink Receives NHGRI Grant »
Lirong Xia (G '11) is a 2015 recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. This grant will support work on his project, "A New Theory of Social Choice for More than Two Alternatives: Combining Economics, Statistics, and Computation." Xia is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Duke Econ article | NSF award abstract read more about Alum Update: Xia »
Symon Perriman (U '07) has been named Vice President, Business Development & Marketing by 5nine Software. read more about Alum Update: Perriman »
Yahoo! has donated 300 servers and four switches to Duke CS. The equipment will enable Shivnath Babu and Theo Benson to study the problems that big-data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop) and cluster management paradigms (e.g. Software Defined Networking and OpenStack) encounter, and search for ways to make them perform better and more reliably. read more about Yahoo! Donates Equipment »
Tong Luo (G '00), founder and CEO of HandScape, made a splash at this year's Consumer Electronics Show with his company's smart case for the iPad. read more about Alum Update: Luo »