closeup of fiber optics threads
Duke ECE Magazine 2021-2022: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Welcome to the Neighborhood

October 8, 2021

The fourth floor of Duke Engineering's new Wilkinson Building houses the Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems research neighborhood. Learn more about the engineers who now call this space home

The new 150,000-square-foot Wilkinson Building sits at the intersection of the Schools of Engineering, Medicine and Arts & Sciences. The Wilkinson Building's research "neighborhoods" bring together faculty with diverse specialties and areas of expertise, facilitating collaboration and cooperation.

The fourth floor is home to the Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems neighborhood, where faculty with electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and mechanical engineering affiliations come together to develop solutions to challenges in AI and machine learning, robotics, cybersecurity and beyond. 

Faculty Labs

Hover or tap on faculty photos to read about research in each lab.

floor plan for Wilkinson Building computing neighborhood
Tingjun Chen

411: Tingjun Chen

Tingjun Chen

Tingjun Chen seeks to improve data rates employing emerging physical-layer technologies and achieve the highest possible data rates for ultra-low-power IoT devices. (ECE)

John Board

423: John Board

John Board

John Board is an expert in cybersecurity and serves as Duke University’s associate chief information officer. His research interests extend to high performance scientific computing and simulation, novel computer architectures, cluster computing and parallel processing, and ubiquitous computing. (ECE/CS)

Neil Gong

427: Neil Gong

Neil Gong

Neil Gong works at the crossroads of security, privacy, and machine learning, leveraging machine learning techniques to study security and privacy, and also building secure and privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms. (ECE/CS)

Daniel Sorin

427: Daniel Sorin

Daniel Sorin

Daniel Sorin designs computer architectures and memory systems for multicore processors, with the aim of improving reliability, lifetime, and vulnerability to transient errors. (ECE/CS)

Kishor Trivedi

427: Kishor Trivedi

Kishor Trivedi

Kishor Trivedi is an internationally recognized expert in the domain of reliability. Currently, he is conducting experimental research in software reliability during operation, researching software fault tolerance through environmental diversity. (ECE/CS)

Krish Chakrabarty

429: Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Krish Chakrabarty

Krishnendu Chakrabarty’s research is presently focused on design-for-test of system-on-chip and 3D integrated circuits, microfluidic biochips, and wireless sensor networks. (ECE/CS)

Yiran Chen

431: Yiran Chen

Yiran Chen

Yiran Chen leads the new NSF-funded Athena center, advancing next-generation mobile networks in support of edge computing. Chen also co-directs the Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence. (ECE/CS)

Jeffrey Krolik

431: Jeffrey Krolik

Jeffrey Krolik

Jeffrey Krolik develops algorithms that explicitly account for and exploit multipath in order to significantly improve system performance. He is the managing director of the NSF-funded Athena center. (ECE)

Hai Li

431: Hai Li

Hai Li

Hai Li’s research encompasses many aspects of AI, including machine learning acceleration and trustworthiness, and extending to data privacy in healthcare applications. Li co-directs the Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence. (ECE/CS)

Vahid Tarokh

432: Vahid Tarokh

Vahid Tarokh

Vahid Tarokh invents new mathematical methodologies and demonstrates these in projects focused on representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data. (ECE/Mathematics)

Miroslav Pajic

435: Miroslav Pajic

Miroslav Pajic

Miroslav Pajic's research focuses on developing and securing cyber-physical systems with varying levels of autonomy and human interaction. (ECE/CS)

Michael Zavlanos

437: Michael Zavlanos

Michael Zavlanos

Michael Zavlanos develops new, AI-enabled controls for autonomous systems that operate in uncertain, unstructured and unpredictable environments. (MEMS/ECE/CS)

Maria Gorlatova

443: Maria Gorlatova

Maria Gorlatova

Maria Gorlatova focuses on adding connectivity and intelligence to every device big and small — the cross-disciplinary area known as the “Internet of Things.” She has particular interest in fog and edge computing. (ECE/CS)

Gallery

  • chairs with large skylight window and view of Duke West Campus
    The Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems neighborhood offers sweeping views of West Campus and Duke Chapel
  • The skylight on the top floor of the Wilkinson Building
    The skylight on the fourth floor floods the Wilkinson Building with natural light
  • View of Duke Chapel from Derrick Family Terrace
    The view of Duke Chapel as seen from the Derrick Family Terrace is unparalleled
  • students in the graduate lounge
    The graduate student lounges offer quiet spots to work, study, or just take in the Gothic architecture of West Campus
  • wide view of hallway with pod conference room and stairway
    This pod-shaped conference room has come to be known as the "Blue Egg" by the Duke Engineering community
  • The interior of the pod conference room
    The interior of the Blue Egg
Forming Clouds mural by Brendan Monroe
Internationally recognized muralist Brendan Monroe drew inspiration from the history of information exchange when creating "Forming Clouds" for the Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems research neighborhood