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.
9 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)
adversarial-machine-learning10
privacy-protection10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
face-recognition10
facial-recognition9
science7
preprocess7
react7
ranking7
computer-science6
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uchicago-sandlab/naturalbackdoors
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Code for identifying natural backdoors in existing image datasets.
Contributions:77 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
emilywenger/emilywenger.github.io
Mar 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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