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New Faculty: Cybersecurity Expert Kartik Nayak Joins Duke Computer Science
Kartik Nayak, an expert in security, applied cryptography, distributed computing, and blockchains recently joined Duke Computer Science as an assistant professor. While teaching a course on consensus protocols for distributed computing and blockchains, Nayak is also organizing the inaugural Triangle Area Privacy and Security Day (TAPS) event in October with colleague Ashwin Machanavajjhala.
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New Faculty: Lisa Wu Wills adds expertise in architecture and application-driven hardware acceleration
Welcome to Lisa Wu Wills, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Solving computing problems that can arise with today’s big-data analytics, Wills is an expert in the interdisciplinary research of computer architecture and health care.
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Professor Bruce Donald Receives $170K NIH Award
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health recently awarded Bruce R. Donald, Duke Professor of Computer Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Electrical & Computer Engineering, a grant @ $170K+. The grant is a supplement to buy a GPU-enabled computer cluster for his NIH research project, Deep Topological Sampling of Protein Structures. Congratulations to Dr. Donald.
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Bartesaghi Presents at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2019 Meeting
Duke Computer Science, Biochemistry, and ECE Associate Professor Alberto Bartesaghi will speak at the premier microscopy education event, Microscopy & Microanalysis 2019 Meeting in Portland. Having pushed the resolution of cryoEM protein structure determination during his career, Bartesaghi will present the biological sciences tutorial “X43 Expanding the Computational Toolbox for CryoEM” at M&M 2019.
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Cynthia Rudin Named IMS Fellow and ASA Fellow
Duke Professor of Computer Science, ECE, and Statistical Science Cynthia Rudin was selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and also as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in recognition of her professional contributions and leadership.
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