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8/14 Awards

David Smith Selected for NASA NIAC Fellowship

Award will support the pursuit of robotically assembled metamaterials in space for radar systems enabling long-range situational awareness.

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8/12 Duke Engineering Blueprint

AI Risk in 2026: What Happens When Engineers Don’t Understand It

Every day, AI tools get more capable, and deployment is outpacing our understanding of what they get wrong. Duke Engineering Dean Jerry Lynch connects with three Duke University experts to break down where that gap is already showing up: in cybersecurity, in the everyday AI tools people use to get advice, and in healthcare.

8/12 Duke Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Revealing Security Risks to Publicly Accessible Machine-learning Models

Research co-authored by Michael Reiter has received the 2026 Test of Time award from the USENIX Security Symposium.