Yiran Chen and Hai “Helen” Li Receive Numerous Awards at Design Automation Conference
Five honors from ACM and IEEE groups highlight Duke ECE leaders’ lasting influence on AI hardware research.
News
Featured News
All News
Why AI Still Can’t Make Creative Leaps Like Einstein
Research from Emily Wenger showing that LLMs tend to congregate around the same creative ideas supports the hypothesis that AI is incapable of making creative leaps in science and research.
Revealing Security Risks to Publicly Accessible Machine-learning Models
Research co-authored by Michael Reiter has received the 2026 Test of Time award from the USENIX Security Symposium.
Doug Nowacek Named Director of Research for Climate and Sustainability
In his new role, Nowacek will support Duke's Climate Commitment research innovation goals.
Kip Coonley Named Engineering Unleashed Fellow
Kip Coonley, a faculty member of mechanical engineering and materials science (MEMS) and electrical and computer engineering (ECE), received a fellowship to create electromechanical teaching aids.
1% of Resumes Contain Hidden Prompts to Trick AI Hiring Tools
Neil Gong and industry partners found that 1% of resumes submitted to an online recruitment company contained hidden instructions designed to manipulate AI hiring systems.
Meet the Duke Startup Trying to Put a Satelitte in Space
Backed by more than $7 million in seed funding, a Duke University spinout is hoping to launch a new generation of satellite cameras into space in the next few years.
What’s in the Black Box? Inscrutability vs. Explainability
Cynthia Rudin says black box AI does not have to be complex or opaque to work well and provides several examples.
DOE-Funded Brain-Inspired Hardware to Enable Futuristic Robotic Systems
Duke engineers are leading a Phase 1 Genesis project funded by the Department of Energy to develop robotic AI processing hardware 10x faster and 100x more efficient than today’s top performers.
Thwarting Hidden Resume Hacks Targeting AI Hiring Tools
An academic-industry collaboration identifies 1% of resumes in a 200,000 sample across multiple sectors as containing concealed instructions meant to exploit AI systems.
From Quantum Error Correction to Emergent Gravity: Probing Holographic Universes
Crystal Noel co-led the development of a simplified model to understand how the fabric of space and time could emerge from fundamental quantum degrees of freedom.
Faculty Report Proposes Bold Vision for Advancing Computing Innovation at Duke
Jeff Glass helped lead a report that recommends a new cross-school academic unit to coordinate, connect expertise.
State Budget Gives Alamance-Burlington Schools $3.2m for AI School Safety Pilot
Emily Wenger comments on the potential pitfalls associated with hiring a company to collect and use data for security purposes without strong guardrails in place.