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November 10, 2026

New Tech Turns Your Arm Into a Smartwatch Trackpad

The system uses radar to track the movement of a user’s fingers on the forearm and monitors pressure on the skin, providing the same level of force-touch detail available on laptop trackpads.
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November 09, 2026

Professors Iqbal Husain and Laurie Williams Receive the 2026 R.J. Reynolds Awards

NC State University professors Iqbal Husain and Laurie Williams each received the 2026 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension, which is the most prestigious award the College of Engineering at NC State can bestow to individual faculty members.
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November 09, 2026

New ‘Directional’ Password Technique Addresses Memorability, Security, Efficiency

A new password authentication technique for use in virtual reality settings allows users to choose directions rather than numbers. The approach supports the same number of possible combinations as a six-digit numeric password, but is easier for users to remember.
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November 06, 2026

Researchers Demonstrate Comprehensive Suite of New Techniques to Protect AI from ‘Backdoor Attacks’

Researchers have demonstrated three new techniques to prevent so-called “backdoor attacks,” which induce malicious or undesirable behavior in AI models.
Chancellor Kevin Howell addresses participants at NC State's first AI Hub gathering.

November 05, 2026

Prompting Action: NC State AI Hub Hosts First Campus Gathering

Participants in the gathering discussed how AI is being used and how the university can leverage it for public benefit.
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October 29, 2026

Saba Khanmohammadi: From Master’s to Ph.D.

“I’m interested in how technology shapes the way people think, learn and work together. In software development, we often focus on what a tool can do, or how quickly it helps someone finish a task. I’m also interested in what that experience is like for the person.”
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October 28, 2026

Congratulations to the Fall 2026 Carla Savage Award Winners

Congratulations to Tiffany Barnes, Berni Premachandra and Xiaoyi Tian on their incredible work!
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October 20, 2026

Hung Le Receives ICSME Distinguished Paper Award for Improving Code Backdoor Detection

Congratulations to NC State CS Ph.D. student Hung Le on receiving a TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at ICSME 2026 for his research on trustworthy AI and optimizing spectral signature.
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October 20, 2026

View the Full Jeremy Freeman ‘Leadership in Technology’ Talk Online

On October 6, students, faculty and corporate partners attended the #NCStateCS fall 2026 installment of Labcorp’s ‘Leadership in Technology’ Seminar series. Jeremy Freeman, Allstacks’ Co-founder and CTO, gave a talk focused on AI’s impact on software engineering and CS career field.
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October 13, 2026

Manali Teke’s Internship Abroad

Spending a summer abroad in Germany, NC State computer science Ph.D. student Manali Kushabhau Teke gained a crash course in automating complex engineering systems, navigating new technical environments and discovering how software design drives real-world research.
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September 30, 2026

Researchers Offer Three Ways to Alert Users to AI Hallucinations with ‘Embodied’ Agents

This is the first study to assess the performance of hallucination awareness cues with regard to embodied conversational agents.
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September 29, 2026

Securing Supply Chains Using Generative AI

NC State CS Assistant Professor Xiaorui Liu is helping to lead a collaborative, NSF-funded project that will use generative AI to assemble resilient supply chains in minutes instead of months.
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