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Professor Yiran Chen Elected AAAS Fellow

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...

Eric Yeats Helps Middle Schoolers Get in Touch with Fun Side of Engineering

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. He spent three afternoons a week...

Professor Yiran Chen Elected NAI Senior Member

Congratulations to Yiran Chen (ECE) 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...

Professor Yiran Chen Wins IEEE 2022 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award

Duke professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Yiran Chen has won the 2022 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. The award is administered by the IEEE, and recognizes “the outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of...

Professor Hai Li Named ACM Fellow

Prof. Hai Li was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration. Source: https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/january/fellows-2021

Prof. Yiran Chen named to global highly cited list

Professor Yiran Chen, along with five other professors from Pratt School of Engineering, is named to Global Highly Cited List for 2021. The researchers are internationally recognized for their work in fields including genomics, metamaterials and...

Zhiyao Xie and Huanrui Yang received the Best Paper Award from IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

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...

NSF announced establishment of Athena - AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next-Generation Networks

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. The combined investment of $220 million expands the reach...

2/14-15 Kick-off Meeting: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC)

Event Date:  Thu, 02/14/2019 (All day) to Fri, 02/15/2019 (All day)Location:  701 W Main St, Durham, NC 27701 This year's kick-off meeting of ASIC will be held at the atrium of Chesterfield building.       AGENDA Day1 and Day2 meeting will be held in…

Duke and Black Sesame announce to collaborate on DNN compression

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. is a world lead developer and...

Fan Chen received the Best Paper Award from Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC)

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)

CEI lab team building activity - Escape Room and Hot Pot! Happy Holidays!        

Congratulations to Wei Wen for his oral presentation in NIPS 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.  Refer arXiv 1705.07878 and GibHub for more technical...

Professor Yiran Chen Named IEEE Fellow

Prof. Yiran Chen was recently named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for his contributions to spintronic memory. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in...

Professor Hai Li Named Distinguished Member of ACM

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.  Read the news release