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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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In Memoriam: Duke CS Founder, Merrell Patrick
Merrell Patrick, who helped establish the Department of Computer Science at Duke, passed away recently. Duke University flags will be lowered today in his honor.
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Sudeepa Roy Wins 2022 Very Large Databases (VLDB) Early Career Award
Duke CS Associate Professor Sudeepa Roy has won the 2022 VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award for her work on helping users to understand query results, and on generating explanations for the underlying computations. This award specifically recognizes a researcher who has demonstrated database research impact through a specific technical contribution of high significance since completing their PhD degree. The VLDB endowment awards ceremony and presentations will be held on Sept. 8, 2022 at the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases in Sydney, Australia (and hybrid), where Sudeepa will give a talk titled "Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality."
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Duke CS Undergrad Team Wins ASA Data Challenge Expo 2022
Duke CS undergrads Jenny Huang, Gaurav Parikh, and Albert Sun won the American Statistical Association (ASA) Data Challenge Expo this year! Coached by Cynthia Rudin and Lesia Semenova, the students' paper on Public Transit Policies to Promote Equitable Urban Mobility suggested that urban mobility and unequal commute data can guide policymakers to enact appropriate policies that enhance the accessibility of public transportation for everyone. Huang and Parikh presented their research at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on August 7 in Washington, DC. Congratulations!
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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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