With great potential comes great cybersecurity risks, from uncontrollable drones to deep faked illegal images. Learn how Duke ECE experts are working to create guardrails and safety mechanisms in artificial intelligence. 

Dear Colleagues,

I'm excited to share the latest contributions our department is making in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and privacy considerations. As AI tools become more advanced, Duke ECE is committed to using these tools to their greatest ability to benefit society, while also developing protections against potential harms in this fast-changing field. Here, we highlight how our faculty are pushing the boundaries of AI research and how our students—whose ingenuity never ceases to inspire—are learning to shape the future of technology! Enjoy!

Hai "Helen" Li
Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Marie Foote Reel E’46 Distinguished Professor

Researchers and educators across Duke's campus are finding the best–and perhaps worst–uses of AI.

Graduate student Matthew LaRosa uses machine learning and generative AI to understand strategies for making rapid decisions in complex environments.

In just its second year, the hackathon inspired dozens of student-built projects lauded by industry and practice professionals for their inspiring creativity.

Training artificial neural networks on memristor-based circuitry

Using signal processing algorithms to impact two different arenas: security and human health

Building machine learning methods that are provably secure against adversarial examples and poisoning attacks

Advancing computer and communications security, fault-tolerant distributed computing and applied cryptography

Advocating for transparent, interpretable and socially responsible AI

Designing and analyzing autonomous cyber-physical systems with varying levels of autonomy and human interaction

Working in industrial robotics to push the boundaries of autonomous motion planning

Securing futuristic cryptography algorithms and protecting people's privacy from generative AI

“There are many young, energetic and talented researchers and engineers inside China. I don’t think there’s a big gap in terms of education between China and the US in that perspective, especially in AI. But the constraint is really from other parts.”

—YIRAN CHEN

on AI education in China

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