Duke University
Durham, NC·Private·Medical school
61 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.6B a year on research and awards 417 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 18,360: 6,626 undergraduates, 11,734 graduate
- Postdocs
- 718
- Faculty
- 4,280 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Pan Xu
Computer Science·Early-career
Develop distributionally robust reinforcement learning methods that use minimax optimization over a set of possible environment dynamics, so that policies trained in a simulator perform reliably in an unknown target domain, with finite-sample guarantees.
Fay-Wei Li
Plant Science & Agriculture
Determine the chemical structure of the hormogonia-inducing factor (HIF), the diterpenoid signal the hornwort Anthoceros punctatus secretes to recruit cyanobacteria, by purifying it from scaled-up cultures and analyzing it by NMR spectroscopy.
Sophie Ravanbakht
Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Characterize lifestyle behaviors, medication adherence barriers and support needs of adolescents on obesity medications through surveys and semi-structured interviews with teens, caregivers and clinicians.
Lindsay Edwards
Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Optimize a machine learning pipeline that predicts cardiomyopathy in pediatric cancer survivors from routinely collected echocardiographic and clinical data.
Rishikesan Kamaleswaran
Biomedical Engineering
Discover 'physiomarkers' in continuous ICU monitor data, including high-fidelity waveforms, that predict the onset of sepsis in patients who develop secondary infections after ICU admission.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.