Emily Wenger
Assistant Professor at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Wenger is an assistant professor at Duke University and a researcher specializing in AI security and privacy, with eight years of experience spanning academia, industry, and government. Her work focuses on understanding and mitigating misuse and abuse of AI models, informed by hands-on roles as a research scientist at Meta and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior experience as a mathematician at the U.S. Department of Defense and internships at Facebook AI give her a rare blend of theoretical rigor and operational perspective on threat modeling and defenses. Based in Durham, NC, she studies practical vulnerabilities in deployed systems as well as foundational privacy questions, bridging responsible AI research with real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Physics at Wheaton College
Github Skills (11)
privacy-protection10
face-recognition9
privacy-enhancing-technologies9
adversarial-machine-learning9
ranking8
facial-recognition8
privacy-preserving8
science8
computer-science7
react7
privacy5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
emilywenger/emilywenger.github.io
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
uchicago-sandlab/naturalbackdoors
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:77 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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