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Yiran Chen

John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
130 Hudson Hall, PO Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708
405 Wilkison Building, 534 Research Dr., Durham, NC 27705
Office hours Appointment only.  

Current Appointments & Affiliations


John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2023 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2019 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science · 2019 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Previous Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2017 - 2019 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science · 2018 - 2019 Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2016 - 2016 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke


Director of NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next Generation Networks (Athena)
Director of NSF IUCRC for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC)
Co-director of Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (CEI)