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Researchers demonstrate new technique for stealing AI models

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Mar 14, 2025

Ready for an AI Future

To set up students, faculty and staff for success in an increasingly AI-driven society, NC State’s College of Engineering is integrating AI into its full breadth of curricula and research.
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Mar 14, 2025

Sensors, Centered

The Institute for Connected Sensor-Systems (IConS) ties together NC State’s strengths in sensor development and application-driven solutions.
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Mar 10, 2025

New Technique Overcomes Spurious Correlations Problem in AI

Researchers have discovered that learned spurious correlations in AI can be traced to a very small subset of the training data and have demonstrated a technique that overcomes the problem.
Lirong Xiang (left) with students during the 2024 high school robotics summer camp. All three are holding small robotic devices. Lirong is wearing a light blue top and the two to her left are wearing red t-shirts.

Mar 4, 2025

Women in Ag: Lirong Xiang

As a recipient of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research New Innovator Award, professor and agricultural engineer Lirong Xiang is building robots to neutralize one of agriculture’s biggest foes — weeds.
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Feb 24, 2025

Applied AI Futures Seminars Spring Dates Announced

Two leading AI researchers are visiting the College of Engineering this spring semester for the Dean’s Distinguished Seminar Series on Applied AI Futures.
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Feb 13, 2025

N.C. PSI Seeds Project to Improve Apple Production

An interdisciplinary North Carolina State University team has kicked off new research exploring whether imaging technologies paired with artificial intelligence might prove useful for apple farmers. Seed funding for the…
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Jan 15, 2025

New method forecasts computation, energy costs for sustainable AI models

Predicting energy and computational costs allows users to make informed decisions about when to update AI models to improve AI sustainability.
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Dec 19, 2024

Preparing for a future that matters

For North Carolina State University Ph.D. candidate  Sina Jamalzadegan, 2024 has been a big year. Not only has the engineering student made headway in using artificial intelligence (AI) to create…
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Dec 13, 2024

Researchers demonstrate new technique for stealing AI models

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to steal an AI model without hacking into the device where the model was running.