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Juncheng Dong wins the Duke University ECE Outstanding PhD Dissertation award

His dissertation title is "Efficiently Solving New Learning Problems Under Increasingly Weak Supervision."

New seminar recordings available on YouTube

New Athena recordings available to the public

| https://pratt.duke.edu/news/duke-convenes-global-leaders-in-abu-dhabi-to-pursue-ais-next-evolution/

Abu Dhabi AI Summit 2026

The Athena AI Institute successfully co-hosted an invite-only AI Summit in Abu Dhabi February 2-3 bringing together influential leaders from academia, government, industry, and investment communities to explore the future of Edge AI. Speakers stressed that realizing the potential of edge AI…

| https://www.youtube.com/@nsfaiinstitute-athena8349/featured

New Lecture Videos Added to Athena YouTube site!

GPU and GPT lectures from Professor Lin Zhong of Yale University for public viewing and education.

| LinkedIn

Tingjun Chen named the Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Congratulations to The Athena AI Institute PI

| AIVO

Congratulations David Hunt, Athena AI Institute graduate student on being highlighted in the NSF AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO) newsletter!

AIVO recently caught up with David Hunt, PhD candidate at Duke University.

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Bruce Maggs wins the 2024 IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on the Internet Distinguished Service Award

Athena Institute PI Bruce Maggs from Duke University has won the 2024 “IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on the Internet Distinguished Service Award” for his work as program chair of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing 2017, ACM SIGCOMM 2022, and various other service activities.…

Ye Zhu

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PostDoc Ye Zhu recognized as one of the MIT EECS Rising Stars

Athena Institute PostDoc Ye Zhu from Princeton University was recognized as one of the MIT EECS Rising Stars this year.

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

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

| https://100.duke.edu/story/shaundra-daily/

Shaundra Daily named as a Trailblazer for Duke

| CS Duke

Athena PI Michael Reiter wins Lasting Research Award

Michael Reiter won the 2024 Lasting Research Award

Athena Institute Summer REU Showcase 2024

Athena Institute Summer REU Showcase 2024

Summer 2024 REU Opportunities Application Open

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

| 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!

Christopher Wolters

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

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.

| 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.  

| 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!    

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.

Athena First Annual Showcase Presentations and Pictures August 2022

Links to showcase slides and pictures

| 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.

| 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!  

| 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…

| 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…

| 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.  

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