Cara August, Trinity Communications If you care about shaping the future of medicine, climate, art, policy, business or justice, Computer Science already has a place for you. You don’t have to arrive fluent in code. What you do need is a wi…
We are pleased to announce that six of our undergraduate majors and minors have been recognized by the Computing Research Association (CRA) for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in 2025-2026.This prestigious program honors undergraduate st…
Jiwan Kim, Trinity Communications Ph.D. student Yiheng Shen and Professor of Computer Science Kamesh Munagala have won the Best Paper Award of the 2025 Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) for their paper titled “The Limits of In…
Elizabeth Richardson, Trinity Communications “If one doesn't know how to handle failure, he cannot really enjoy the successes.” Jian Pei, Arthur S. Pearse Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, often tells his students that failure is…
The first two courses taken by students in higher education are called CS1 and CS2 from early curricular standards. How should these courses be structured and delivered so that every student is engaged, able to succeed, and prepared for fut…
Marie Claire Chelini and Elizabeth Richardson, Trinity Communications Mary Osborne isn’t afraid of AI in the classroom — quite the contrary. The lecturing fellow in Linguistics teaches the two cornerstone classes of Duke’s interdepartmental…
The reputation of our research and teaching faculty is the biggest strength of the department. Many faculty members have been recognized both at university and national levels for their excellence in research, education, and service. Focuse…
Natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with developing algorithms for intelligently handling natural (i.e., human) language. Major focuses include language understanding, as exemplified by systems that automatically answer questions…
Computer vision designs algorithms that infer properties of the world from the outputs of a variety of imaging sensors. Application examples include the analysis of medical images for diagnostic purposes, the recognition of people from thei…
Researchers at Duke use the tools of artificial intelligence to assist with various important societal problems, including (but not limited to) healthcare, antibiotic and cancer resistance, criminal justice, detecting fake news, allocation
The theory of social choice concerns how to make decisions based on the conflicting preferences of multiple parties (agents). In computational social choice, these problems are studied from a computational perspective: what are well-motivat…
The Artificial Intelligence group in the Department of Computer Science is dedicated to advancing research that spans the theoretical foundations of AI, the principles and methods of machine learning, and the development of practical applic…