Combining a tool she loves and a topic she cares about, Assistant Professor Monica Agrawal uses computational methodologies to study the multiple scales of human health. read more about Monica Agrawal Uses Computational Methodologies to Study Human Health »
Assistant Professor of the Practice Eric Fouh looks at computer science education though a particularly human angle: emotional self-regulation and the role it plays on learning. read more about Eric Fouh Is Bringing Self-Regulation to Computer Science Education »
Michael Reiter, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering, was the recipient of the 2024 Lasting Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY). Reiter’s research focuses on computer and communications security, fault-tolerant distributed computing and applied cryptography. The award recognizes his work on “vulnerability detection in systems, applications and machine learning models,… read more about Reiter Recognized for his Work on Computer Security and Privacy »
Duke Computer Science's Theory Group members are honored to have eight papers accepted at the January 2024 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) conference, with six of the Duke CS papers co-written by our graduate students. Read a brief summary of one of these papers, "Fair Price Discrimination," below. Imagine a scenario where a seller is selling copies of an item, like tickets to a museum or copies of a computer software. Each buyer can potentially value the item… read more about New Research with Machine Learning Tools Helps Determine "Fair Price Discrimination" »
Duke Computer Science's Theory Group members are honored to have eight papers accepted at the January 2024 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) conference, with six of the Duke CS papers co-written by our graduate students. Read a brief summary of one of these papers, "Beyond the Quadratic Time Barrier for Network Unreliability," below. The unreliability of a network, defined as the probability that it disconnects under random (and independent) connection failures,… read more about New Research Goes "Beyond the Quadratic Time Barrier" »
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 »