Overview
How do we build technology we can trust? Brinnae Bent is on a mission to explore this question through her work in education, research, public engagement, and collaboration with high-impact companies. As a leader in bridging the gap between research and industry, Brinnae has led projects and developed algorithms for the largest companies in the world. More importantly, she has built algorithms that have meaningful impacts - from helping people walk to non-invasively monitoring glucose to building tools for wildlife conservation.
As a faculty member teaching AI and Cybersecurity at Duke University, Brinnae believes that responsible use and development of AI begins with education. She has created innovative educational tools like "Hack Your Grade" and "DisagreeBot".
As Director of the TRUST Lab at Duke University, Brinnae takes an interdisciplinary approach to building more trustworthy technology.
Brinnae maintains active public dialogue through her weekly tech newsletter, “Spill the GPTea,” (spillthegptea.com) and focuses on public education in her YouTube video series “AI 4 People Who Hate Math” (YouTube @profbrinnae)
As a faculty member teaching AI and Cybersecurity at Duke University, Brinnae believes that responsible use and development of AI begins with education. She has created innovative educational tools like "Hack Your Grade" and "DisagreeBot".
As Director of the TRUST Lab at Duke University, Brinnae takes an interdisciplinary approach to building more trustworthy technology.
Brinnae maintains active public dialogue through her weekly tech newsletter, “Spill the GPTea,” (spillthegptea.com) and focuses on public education in her YouTube video series “AI 4 People Who Hate Math” (YouTube @profbrinnae)
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Executive in Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
·
2024 - Present
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Publications
When Helpfulness Becomes Sycophancy: Sycophancy is a Boundary Failure Between Social Alignment and Epistemic Integrity in Large Language Models
Preprint · May 6, 2026 Link to item CiteWhen2Speak: A Dataset for Temporal Participation and Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversations for Large Language Models
Preprint · May 6, 2026 Link to item CiteUnmasking Hidden Dysglycemia: A Mobile OGTT Approach Using Continuous Glucose Monitors
Preprint · December 15, 2025 Full text CiteRecent Grants
CAREER: Resolving action potentials and high-density neural signals from the surface of the brain
ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2024Expanding the Open mHealth Platform to include a Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP)
ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative · 2020 - 2022High resolution awake cortical recordings to analyze the role of spreading depolarizations during dynamic stroke evolution
ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021View All Grants
Education
Duke University ·
2021
Ph.D.
Duke University ·
2018
M.S.
North Carolina State University ·
2016
B.S.