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Lecturer Position in Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, invites applications for a Lecturer position to begin Spring 2023.
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NSF Awards $1.5M Grant to Duke for Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) Research
NSF awarded Duke a $1.5 M grant to advance cybersecurity efforts as part of the $25.4 M Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) "Frontier" research program. With Indiana University as the lead institution, James B. Duke CS/ECE Distinguished Professor Mike Reiter is PI and Yale's Fan Zhang is Co-PI of the multi-institution and multi-disciplinary Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC) project at Duke. Researchers' goal is to provide solutions for protecting data-in-use, like training ML models on private data and across cloud and edge systems.
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NSF Awards STEM Education Postdoc Research Fellowship Grant
NSF awarded a new STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship $1M+ grant over three years to The Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education. Duke Professor of the Practice of CS and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies Dr. Nicki Washington is the PI, and co-PIs are Dr. Shani Daily, Professor of the Practice of ECE and CS and Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Sociology Professor. With three postdocs supporting Duke-related activities, AiiCE-PRF's goal is to increase the number of postdocs from historically underrepresented groups in computing and the number of postdocs performing identity-inclusive computing education research.
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Duke Computer Science Wins Best Paper and Test-of-Time Awards at SIGMOD PODS 2022
Associate Professor Ashwin Machanavajjhala, PhD student Yuchao Tao, and their collaborators at HKUST (including former Duke CS PhD grad Ke Yi), won the Best Paper Award in Data Management at SIGMOD 2022. Professor Pankaj Agarwal and collaborators won the Test-of-Time PODS Paper Award. Overall, Duke CS faculty and PhD students presented 7 research papers at the ACM SIGMOD PODS 2022 conference.
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Rudin Selected as 2021-22 Chron15 Pioneer
Dr. Cynthia Rudin was nominated as a 2021-22 Chron15 Pioneer. Duke Chronicle readers identified leaders, pioneers and icons that make positive change in the community. Rudin, also the director of Duke's Interpretable ML Lab, was selected for her innovative research and design of interpretable forms of AI, and her approach to ML which has generated breakthrough results. Rudin's national recognition includes the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Undergraduate Awards 2022
Congratulations to all recipients of the 2022 undergraduate student awards!
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