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Shreya Hurli

Shreya Hurli is in the class of 2021 at Duke University. She is currently a freshman. Prior to attending college, Hurli graduated from Columbus North High School in Columbus, Indiana.

She enjoys hiking, reading, debating, watching comedy shows like Archer and Last Week Tonight, and writing short sketches.

NAE Engineering Grand Challenge

Cyber attacks by governments and individuals alike are becoming increasingly common, as well as devastating, as more and more information is stored digitally. Strengthening a country's cyber defenses is quickly becoming as important in the 21st century as strengthening its military was in the 20th century. This is why one of our century's grand challenges is to improve cyber security.

The following article in WIRED, "Surpise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project for Developing Cyber Attacks" is about how the US has been working to improve its computer security by building cyber weapons.

[1], Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 18 February 2015, accessed 17 September 2017 (Secure Cyberspace)

MATLAB Demo

I liked the 3D plots demo because I am currently in a machine learning class, in which we recently created a model for a population switching currencies from gold to silver with the variables epsilon and n, in which epsilon was the probability with which a person would randomly choose to switch currencies and in which n was population size. Visualizing a model with 2 independent variables (which would make the resulting plot a hyperplane) was pretty difficult for me. Now, looking at this Matlab demo, I can see how I could potentially use the 3D plot function in the future to understand situations and models like this one much better.