CCB Networking Luncheon and Seminar

Dr. Emily Wenger is an award-winning academic and researcher on AI models and the impacts of generative AI on social and cultural trends. Emily currently serves as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, where she investigates and teaches security and privacy issues of AI models. Before joining Duke, Emily was a Research Scientist at Meta AI. She was named to the distinguished 2024 Forbes 30 under 30 list for her work on Glaze, a tool that protects artists’ work from unwanted use in generative AI models. Her research has been featured by numerous media outlets including CNN, NBC, the New York Times, and the BBC, and she has received many awards, including a GFSD fellowship, Siebel Scholarship, Harvey Fellowship, Neubauer Fellowship, the USENIX Internet Defense Prize, the USENIX Distinguished Paper Award, and the University of Chicago Harper Dissertation award. Emily holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and graduated from Wheaton College with a B.S. in Math and Physics.