For Shaundra Daily, helping to create a more equitable STEM education system is an important part of her work.
The Cue Family Professor of the Practice of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science is also the Education and Workforce Director for the Athena AI Institute. Her research involves designing, implementing and evaluating technologies, programs and curricula to support inclusive excellence in STEM fields.
In 2022, Daily was one of two faculty members recognized by Gov. Roy Cooper as Black leaders and organizations in STEM fields doing critical and innovative work that is helping communities across the state.
In 2021, Daily and colleague Nicki Washington were awarded $10 million by the National Science Foundation to create the alliance for identity-inclusive computing education. They recently won the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for their work.
In April, she and a colleague were appointed to develop competencies for the National Academies’ Future Of Data And Computing: The Role Of K-12 Committee. The project aims to identify the tools needed for students to thrive in our techno-changing society and the role that K-12 education plays in crafting these skills.
In 2022, Daily was one of seven professors chosen to serve as Duke’s first QuadEx Faculty Fellows. The group was responsible for fostering connections between Duke’s academic mission and undergraduate students’ social and residential lives.
Daily, who earned her doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that while in high school she considered a career with the FBI or CIA, but decided to remain in electrical engineering once she entered college.
Before joining Duke, she was a tenured associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University.
