Recent News
Professor Yiran Chen Elected AAAS Fellow
February 2, 2023
Professor Yiran Chen was elected to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest honors in American sciences, for his extraordinary contributions to new memory technologies and their applications in storage and computing, and exceptional leadership and service... read more
Eric Yeats Helps Middle Schoolers Get in Touch with Fun Side of Engineering
June 6, 2022
Fourth-year ECE PhD candidate Eric Yeats has spent the past few months partnering with Durham Public Schools to offer a free robotics club for local middle schools that need more STEM-based afterschool opportunities.
Professor Yiran Chen Elected NAI Senior Member
February 14, 2022
Congratulations to Yiran Chen (ECE) on being elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors!
Professor Yiran Chen Wins IEEE 2022 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
January 27, 2022
Duke professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Yiran Chen has won the 2022 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.
Professor Hai Li Named ACM Fellow
January 18, 2022
Prof. Hai Li was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration.
Prof. Yiran Chen named to global highly cited list
November 18, 2021
Professor Yiran Chen, along with five other professors from Pratt School of Engineering, is named to Global Highly Cited List for 2021.
Zhiyao Xie and Huanrui Yang received the Best Paper Award from IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
October 26, 2021
Zhiyao and Huanrui received the Best Paper Award from IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture for their paper entitled "APOLLO: An Automated Power Modeling Framework for Runtime Power Introspection in High-Volume Commercial Microprocessors". Congratulations!
NSF announced establishment of Athena - AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next-Generation Networks
July 31, 2021
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of 11 new NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, building on the first round of seven institutes funded in 2020.
2/14-15 Kick-off Meeting: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC)
February 11, 2019
ASIC kick-off meeting held at the Chesterfield building, February 14-15, 2019
Duke and Black Sesame announce to collaborate on DNN compression
May 21, 2018
Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (BST) sponsors the Duke Center of Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (CEI) Lab for a research project on large-scale deep neural network compression. Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
Fan Chen received the Best Paper Award from Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC)
January 21, 2018
Fan Chen received the Best Paper Award from Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) 2018 for the paper entitled “Process Variation Aware Data Management for Magnetic Skyrmions Racetrack Memory”. Congratulations!
CEI Team Building Activity (2017/12)
December 19, 2017
CEI lab team building activity - Escape Room and Hot Pot! Happy Holidays!
Congratulations to Wei Wen for his oral presentation in NIPS 2017
December 6, 2017
Wei's work on "TernGrad: Ternary Gradients to Reduce Communication in Distributed Deep Learning" was selected one of the forty oral presentations in NIPS 2017, among more than 3,000 submissions.
Professor Yiran Chen Named IEEE Fellow
November 18, 2017
Prof. Yiran Chen was recently named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for his contributions to spintronic memory.
Professor Hai Li Named Distinguished Member of ACM
November 8, 2017
Prof. Hai Li was named as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognized for her contributions toward developing the next generation of computer hardware.
Professor Hai Li appointed as a Distinguished Speakers of ACM
August 8, 2017
Prof. Hai Li was appointed as one of Distinguished Speakers of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).