Led by Duke University, Athena is a multi-university and trans-disciplinary AI center including nine academic institutions (Duke, Yale, Wisconsin, Michigan, Princeton, MIT, Purdue, Arizona State, and N.C. A&T State University); and five industry collaborators, AT&T, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions, EdgeMicro and 5NINES.
Who We Are
Leadership Team
Yiran Chen
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Director of NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Alternative and Sustainable Intelligent Computing (ASIC) and co-Director of the Duke Center for Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI)
Jeffrey L. Krolik
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Program Manager in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office
Suman Banerjee
Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Founding director of the WiNGS laboratory and in leading multiple large-scale wireless systems projects under National Science Foundation's GENI, US-Ignite, ICN-WEN, and MLWiNS programs.
Lin Zhong
Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Director of Efficient Computing Lab at Yale
Hai "Helen" Li
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Founding director of the Duke Center for Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI), and co-director of NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Alternative and Sustainable Intelligent Computing (ASIC)
Miroslav Pajic
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab (CPSL) at Duke, specializing in design and analysis of cyber-physical systems with varying levels of autonomy and human interaction
Shaundra Daily
Cue Family Professor of the Practice, Duke University
Director of the Diversity in Tech Lab, specializing in developing curricula and technology to broaden participation in STEM fields
Daniel Limbrick
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University
Director of the Automated Design for Emerging Processing Technologies (ADEPT) laboratory, specializing in the design, verification, and testing of secure and reliable microelectronic systems, and faculty co-sponsor for the SAE Autodrive Challenge
Participants
David Atienza Alonso
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland
Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Igal Bilik
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Tingjun Chen
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Nita A. Farahany
Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University
Neil Gong
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Maria Gorlatova
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke Unversity
Song Han
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John C Kelly
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University
Anurag Khandelwal
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Younghyun Kim
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Bhuvana Krishnaswamy
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bruce Maggs
Pelham Wilder Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
Morley Mao
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Michael Reiter
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
Rajashi Runton
Athena Senior Program Coordinator, Duke University
Olga Russakovsky
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Ulf Schlichtmann
Professor of Electronic Design Automation, Technical University of Munich, TUM, Germany
Vahid Tarokh
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Lisa Wills
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
