Duke University Center of Exemplary Mentoring Research Summit

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The Duke UCEM Annual Research Summit features short research presentations by Sloan Scholars, who are Ph.D. students in the physical sciences and engineering. The event also features a keynote address from a prominent researcher in the sciences or engineering. All members of the Duke community are welcome to attend.

The 2025 Research Summit will feature presentations by nine Sloan Scholars and a keynote address by Marisabel Guevara Hechtman, PhD'14 (Computer Science). Dr. Guevara Hechtman is a Staff Software Engineer in Google's Accelerator Architecture team where she works on video processing systems such as the Video Coding Unit, which is a custom video transcoding accelerator for YouTube. The project was recognized with a Technical Emmy Award in 2024. Marisabel joined Google in 2016 as a Site Reliability Engineer for Gmail and Calendar. During her time at Duke, she was recognized as the 2013 winner of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

This event is sponsored by the Duke University Center of Exemplary Mentoring.