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Emily Wenger

Cue Family Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Cue Family Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2025 - Present Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2024 - Present Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2025 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent News Items


Published January 14, 2025
Dorothy, We Don’t Use a Floppy Disk Anymore
Published November 12, 2024
AI is the Biggest Cybersecurity Question Mark. Is It Also the Answer?

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Recent Scholarly Works


Large language models are homogeneously creative.

Journal article PNAS nexus · March 2026 Numerous large language models (LLMs) are marketed for use as creativity support tools, despite several studies showing that using an LLM as a creative partner narrows creative outputs. However, these studies only consider the effects of interacting with a ... Full text Cite

Salsa Fresca: Angular Embeddings and Pre-Training for ML Attacks on Learning With Errors

Journal article Transactions on Machine Learning Research · January 1, 2025 Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem underlying recently standardized post-quantum cryptography (PQC) systems for key exchange and digital signatures (Chen et al., 2022). Prior work (Wenger et al., 2022; Li et al., 2023a;b) proposed new machin ... Cite

Benchmarking Attacks on Learning with Errors

Conference Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · January 1, 2025 Lattice cryptography schemes based on the learning with errors (LWE) hardness assumption have been standardized by NIST for use as post-quantum cryptosystems, and by HomomorphicEncryption.org for performing encrypted computations on sensitive data. Thus, u ... Full text Cite
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Education


The University of Chicago · 2023 Ph.D.
The University of Chicago · 2020 M.S.
Wheaton College · 2016 B.S.