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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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Duke CS Awarded Several Grants from the Ethereum Foundation
Duke CS Assistant Professor Kartik Nayak and Yale CS Assistant Professor Fan Zhang received several grants from the Ethereum Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the open-source blockchain technology that powers Ethereum. These grants will fund research to advance the Ethereum ecosystem: Disentangling Transaction Privacy and Consensus in Ethereum (Nayak and Zhang); Catching the ephemeral: Understanding blockchains through mempool data (Zhang and Nayak); and Improving Ethereum Communication Efficiency through Accountability and Flexible Quorums (Nayak).
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2022 Undergraduate Summer Research Programs Conclude with a Symposium and Poster Session
CS+, our popular 10-week summer research program exclusively for Duke undergrads, recently concluded with an in-person symposium. CS+, Data+, Code+ and Climate+ Program participants also presented their creative and innovative research projects in a poster session. Over 100 students participated in the 2022 + programs, 49 posters were displayed and > 2/3 of students participating in + programs study CS.
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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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