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September 12, 2024

Helen Li named the Marie Foote Reel E’46 Distinguished Professor of ECE

September 11, 2024 | https://100.duke.edu/story/shaundra-daily/

Shaundra Daily named as a Trailblazer for Duke

September 2, 2024 | CS Duke

Athena PI Michael Reiter wins Lasting Research Award

Michael Reiter won the 2024 Lasting Research Award

August 22, 2024

Athena Institute Summer REU Showcase 2024

December 18, 2023

Summer 2024 REU Opportunities Application Open

Undergraduate students majoring in a Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics (STEM) disciplines – Applications Due: February 26, 2024

November 3, 2023 | Pratt School of Engineering

Helen Li and Yiran Chen (together with Xin Li) receive the William J. McCalla ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award

Congratulations to Athena PI Helen Li and Lead PI Yiran Chen for receiving this prestigious award!

August 22, 2023

Wolters receives Best Student Poster Award

Athena international undergraduate student summer intern, Christopher Wolters received the Best Student Poster Award in the Area of Artificial Intelligence and Neuromorphic Engineering

August 22, 2023

Ang Li receives Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Athena Alumni, Ang Li, received the 2023 IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He has joined the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor at the ECE Department starting from this month.

August 22, 2023 | University of Wisconsin - Madison

Bhuvana Krishnaswamy receives Early Career Innovator Award

Bhuvana Krishnaswamy has been named one of four faculty in the University of Wisconsin Madison campus to receive the Early Career Innovator award that recognizes faculty involved in technology transfer and commercialization activities.  

February 1, 2023 | Duke Today

Yiran Chen named AAAS Fellow

Dr. Yiran Chen has been elected as a 2022 fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community. Congratulations Yiran!    

January 19, 2023

Dr. David Atienza Alonso and Dr. Krishnendu Chakrabarty Recognized

Congratulations to Dr. David Atienza Alonso for being named a 2022 ACM Fellow and congratulations to Dr. Krishnendu Chakrabarty for receiving the 2022 Aristotle Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation.

August 31, 2022

Athena First Annual Showcase Presentations and Pictures August 2022

Links to showcase slides and pictures

August 3, 2022 | Princeton news

Olga Russakovsky wins NSF Career Award and the PAMI Young Researcher Award!

Congratulations to Olga Russakovsky, assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University and Athena Institute PI, for being awarded the 2022 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award.

June 6, 2022 | Yale News

Abhishek Bhattacharjee Wins 2022 Ackerman Award

Congratulations to Athena Institute PI Abhishek Bhattacharjee for winning the prestigious Ackerman Award for teaching and mentoring!  

February 14, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering

Congratulations to Yiran Chen on being elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors!

NAI senior members are active faculty, scientists and administrators with success in patents, licensing and commercialization and have produced technologies that have the potential for a real impact on the welfare of society. They also foster a spirit of innovation within their communities and…

February 14, 2022 | Duke Today

Athena faculty members Shaundra B. Daily and Nicki Washington honored as Black Leaders in STEM

Duke professors Shaundra (Shani) B. Daily and Nicki Washington were among the people recognized Tuesday by NC Gov. Roy Cooper as Black leaders and organizations in the science, technology, engineering and math fields who are doing critical and innovative work that is helping communities…

January 31, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering

Duke ECE professor Yiran Chen has won IEEE’s Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award

Duke ECE professor Yiran Chen has won IEEE’s Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, for his work in nonvolatile memory technologies and their applications. He is the third member of his department to win the award.  

January 19, 2022

Congratulations to our newly elected ACM Fellows!

Dr. Helen Li, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University and Dr. Lin Zhong, Professor of Computer Science at Yale University have been named ACM Fellows.

December 15, 2021

Congratulations to our 2022 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows!

Prof. Suman Banerjee, Madison, WI, for development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems, and Prof. Zhuoqing Mao, Ann Arbor, MI, for contributions to performance and security of internet routing and mobile systems

November 19, 2021

Kickoff Meeting Presentations

Watch the 2021 Athena Kickoff Meeting speakers

November 18, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering

Duke Engineering Launches ‘Athena’ Center for AI and Edge Computing

The new center’s kickoff event featured a showcase of proposed edge computing projects

October 5, 2021 | Athena

Athena Post-doctoral Fellowships Announced

August 16, 2021 | Duke Engineering News

Diversifying the Edge Computing Ecosystem

New Duke-led, NSF-funded “Athena” center for AI seeks to advance next-generation mobile networks and make fast, secure edge computing accessible to more users

July 29, 2021 | Duke Today

NSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Research Center at Duke

$20 million, five-year effort to improve mobile systems and networks with AI

July 29, 2021 | NSF

National Science Foundation Announces 11 New National AI Research Institutes

NSF partnerships expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 states