Department of Computer Science
An article by Vincent Conitzer, "Natural Intelligence Still has its Advantages," appears in the Wall Street Journal. read more about Article by Vince Conitzer Appears in Wall Street Journal »
Vincent Conitzer has been awarded an NSF grant titled "RI: Small: Designing Preferences, Beliefs, and Identities for Artificial Intelligence." Total funding is $400,000. read more about Vince Conitzer Receives NSF Grant for AI Research »
Bruce Donald was honored at a 60th birthday tribute organized by his former students. More than 50 colleagues, students, and postdocs gathered at Duke Gardens for what was a full day of talks followed by dinner, some from as far away as California, New York, France, Switzerland and China. read more about Bruce Donald Honored by Colleagues and Students »
Congratulations to recipients of the 2018 undergraduate student awards which were presented at commencement ceremonies on May 13. 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: Harrison Graham Lundberg - For outstanding research contributions in database for an inter-query contention analyzer for cluster computing frameworks, and for… read more about Undergraduate Awards Presented 2018 »
The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2017-18 at commencement ceremonies on May 13. Visit the CS Facebook page to see graduation photos. Go to: PhD Degrees | MS Degrees | MSEC Degrees | Undergraduate Degrees PhD Degrees Bing Xie - Advisor: Jeffrey Chase. Output Performance of Petascale File Systems. Yan Chen - Advisor: Ashwin Machanavajjhala. Applying Differential Privacy with Sparse… read more about Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2017-18 »
Tianyu Wang (G) has been named to the inaugural cohort of Energy Data Analytics PhD Student Fellows. read more about Tianyu Wang Named an Energy Data Analytics Fellow »
We welcome Jennifer Schmidt, who joins the Department as the Chair's Assistant. read more about Jennifer Schmidt Joins Staff »
We welcome Luke Westfield who joins the Department as an IT Analyst. read more about Luke Westfield Joins Lab Staff »
Frank Starmer, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, has won the Duke School of Medicine's 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. Med School | Local Paper read more about Frank Starmer Receives Med School Award »
The inaugural Computer Science Undergraduate Project Showcase celebrated student inquiry in computer science. Students presented 22 posters on projects from mentored research, class projects, and independent work. More | Photos read more about Undergraduate Research Showcase 2018 »
The Salisbury Post recounts challenges overcome by recent graduate Samantha Washko. read more about Samantha Washko Profiled by Salisbury Post »
A paper co-authored by Debmalya Panigrahi has been selected as an honorable mention for the Best Paper Award at WWW 2018. The paper is titled "Minimizing Latency in Online Ride and Delivery Services." read more about Paper by Debmalya Panigrahi takes Honorable Mention »
Bruce Donald has been awarded an R01 grant from the NIH entitled "Computational Structure-Based Protein Design." Total funding will be $1,403,624 over 4 years. read more about Bruce Donald receives NIH Grant for Protein Design »
Vince Conitzer participated in a Duke conference designed to explore promising uses of AI and the challenges they pose in administering diverse governmental functions involving science, technology, health and intellectual property. Conference site | Video read more about Vince Conitzer a Panelist on AI in the Administrative State »
Congratulations to Ashwin Machanavajjhala, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. read more about Ashwin Machanavajjhala Promoted »
Amanda Randles has been named the recipient of the 2017 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for developing HARVEY, a massively parallel circulatory simulation code capable of modeling the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution. ACM | People of ACM | Duke BME read more about Amanda Randles Receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award »
Editor's note: This article, contributed by Lee Adi, Hayley Barton, Tanner Johnson, Nick Turecky, and Carter Zenke, provides an update on Mobile Citizens, an after-school program developed by Duke students to bring computer science to low-income middle schoolers, which was reported on in a 2017 article in The Chronicle. A sense of ethics and community-oriented service are not graduation requirements for a computer science (CS) degree. But in a world becoming more digital - where CS touches everything and everyone… read more about Duke Undergrads Lead Middle Schoolers in Developing Mobile Apps »
Cynthia Rudin and Sudeepa Roy have been awarded a Duke Energy Initiative Grant for their project titled "Enabling Better Energy Decisions Through Better Interpretable Causal Inference Methods for Personalized Treatment Effects." The project's goal is to improve our ability to make policy decisions and understand energy use by making casual inference. read more about Cynthia Rudin and Sudeepa Roy Awarded Duke Energy Initiative Grant »
Co-first authors Seyed Majid Zahedi (G) and Qiuyun Llull, and Benjamin Lee won the HPCA Best Paper Award for a processor allocation framework that uses Amdahl’s Law to apportion resources fairly among data center users. read more about Duke Research Team Wins HPCA Best Paper Award »
Guillermo Sapiro has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He works on theory and applications in computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, image analysis and machine learning. Pratt | DukeToday read more about Guillermo Sapiro Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences »
Asa Royal (U), a CS major and student researcher in the Duke Reporters' Lab, uses computer skills to fight the problem of fake news. read more about Asa Royal Fights Misinformation »
Yuan Deng (G) has been awarded a 2018 Google Fellowship for his project titled "Algorithms for Improved Game-Theoretic Solutions.” Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. read more about Yuan Deng Awarded 2018 Google Fellowship »
Pranav Warman, a sophomore double majoring in computer science and biology, has been named a 2018 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. read more about Pranav Warman Named Goldwater Scholar »
A paper co-authored by Jeff Chase received the USENIX 2018 FAST Test of Time Award. The paper is titled "Designing for Disasters." The award recognizes papers that have had a lasting impact on their field. read more about Jeff Chase receives USENIX 2018 FAST Test of Time Award »
Alvin Lebeck serves as Program Co-Chair for the 24th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2019). ASPLOS is the premier forum for multidisciplinary systems research spanning computer architecture and hardware, programming languages and compilers, operating systems, and networking. read more about Alvin Lebeck Serves as Program Co-Chair for ASPLOS 2019 »
We welcome Ashlee Long, who joins the department as a staff assistant. read more about Ashlee Long Joins Staff »
Kristin Stephens-Martinez joined Duke’s Computer Science faculty in 2018 as an assistant professor of the practice. Her range of experience includes data science, software engineering, computer networking, human-computer interface, education, and information visualization. ---- Data scientist Kristin Stephens-Martinez's well-ordered mind seeks data of all kinds. She has studied over 4,000 students' wrong answers when they predicted the output of code, collected five-years of her own grad school… read more about New Faculty: Kristin Stephens-Martinez Takes a “Meaning-full” Approach to Data Science »
AiFi, a company founded by CS alumni Steve Gu and Ying Zheng, announces the availability of its checkout-free solution for retailers. read more about AiFi, founded by alums Steve Gu and Ying Zheng, tracks shoppers' behaviors »
As numbers and facts continue to accumulate in today’s world of big data, a growing challenge is how to sift through the reams of data for relevant discoveries. It’s a critical and timely issue because policymakers and scientists base wide-ranging decisions on the results of data analysis. But old methods of data analysis don’t always work well with super-sized data sets. "Big data" needs some big new ideas. Enter Sudeepa Roy, assistant professor of computer science. Roy is a database researcher who is creating new ways… read more about Sudeepa Roy: Making Sense of “Big Data” Databases »
(Pictured, from left: Kilian Weinberger (AAAI 2018 program co-chair), Vince Conitzer, Rachel Freedman, Sheila McIlraith (AAAI 2018 program co-chair) Two patients need a kidney, but only one donor is available: who receives the organ? The question may seem grim, yet it is one that medical professionals face often. In recent years, several countries have begun using algorithms developed by AI experts to match patients and donors. That led Rachel Freedman, who graduated from Duke in 2017, to ask whether patient… read more about AAAI 2018 Student Paper Award Given for paper Co-authored by Conitzer and Freedman »