Ken Duffy joined Northeastern in 2023 with a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of which he previously served as interim chair.
Dr. Duffy holds a PhD in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin. He was previously a professor at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he was the director of the Hamilton Institute, an applied mathematics research center, from 2016 to 2022. He was one of three co-directors of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science, which has funded more than 120 PhD students.
Dr. Duffy works in works collaborative multi-disciplinary teams to design, analyze, and realize algorithms using tools from probability and statistics. Algorithms he has developed have been implemented in digital circuits and in DNA. He is a co-founder of the Royal Statistical Society’s Applied Probability Section (2011), co-authored a cover article of Trends in Cell Biology (2012), is a winner of a best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (2015), the best paper award from IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (2019), the best research demo award from COMSNETS (2022), the best demo award from COMSNETS (2023), and the IEEE Military Communications Conference Fred W. Ellersick award for best unclassified paper (2024).