Sean MacAvaney Successfully Defended His PhD Dissertation
Sean has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on “Effective and Practical Neural Ranking”. Now he is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow.
Hoya Hacks 2021
Hoya Hacks is a hackathon organized annually at Georgetown University. Hoya Hacks 2021 was held virtually during January 29-31, 2021. More information at HoyaHacks.com.
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam to Join Computer Science
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam will join Georgetown in August 2021 as an Associate Professor of Computer Science. He comes to Georgetown from the University of Rochester where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science. He obtained Ph.D from Cornell University and spent a year as a CI Fellow at NYU and Columbia University. His research interests are in cryptography, network security and complexity theory.
Welcome to the Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University, in the heart of Washington, DC, is home to higher education and advanced research on the cutting edge of computing and technology. BS, BA, MS, and Ph.D. programs connect students with the ideas, skills, and opportunities to shape the digital world we live in. The department is rapidly growing, with current core research areas of algorithms and theory; security, privacy, and cryptography; and data-centric computing. Faculty members in the department have been honored with a Gödel Prize, Test-of-Time awards, membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, NSF CAREER awards, and Best Paper awards, among other accolades. Students and faculty engage beyond the department through interdisciplinary courses and research, campus initiatives like guWeCode, public and private sector internships, local computing groups, and regional events.
Upcoming Events
April 9
CS Faculty Seminar – Justin Thaler
Zoom information to be distributed via Computer Science email lists. Contact Nitin (nv198@georgetown.edu) for the Zoom information if you are not on a CS email list. @ 1:30 pm
April 15
Virtual via Zoom @ 4:00 pm
April 16
CS Colloquium: Distinguished Speaker Series: Leslie Valiant (Harvard)
Virtual (Zoom) @ 1:00 pm
April 19
Virtual via Zoom @ 9:00 am
April 19
PhD Dissertation Defense: Cristopher Flagg
Virtual via Zoom @ 1:00 pm
Cal Newport interviewed on Ezra Klein podcast, New York Times
Cal Newport explains how Slack and Gmail are making us miserable — and what to do about it.
Georgetown Now: Mark Maloof in Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia
Mark Maloof had a conversation with President DeGioia for the Georgetown Now series about the progress the Department of Computer Science has made over the past twenty years, educating first-year CS students, aspects of machine learning, and the challenges of online instruction
Micah Sherr Appointed to the Callahan Chair
Micah Sherr has been appointed to the Callahan Chair in Georgetown College in recognition of his contributions to research and mentoring.
Clay Shields and Mark Maloof receive NSF Funding for Outreach Activities
Clay Shields and Mark Maloof recently received a supplement from the National Science Foundation to fund three outreach activities designed to recrui…
Sean MacAvaney Receives Outstanding Intern Award from Allen Institute for AI
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) outstanding intern award recognizes exceptional summer interns who went above and beyond as researchers and as colleagues. AI2 recognizes their outstanding contributions with an unrestricted gift of $10,000 directly to the student, as well as an invitation to return to AI2 for another internship.
Benjamin Ujcich Joins CS Faculty as an Assistant Professor
Benjamin Ujcich joined Georgetown after completing Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include security, networking, systems, provenance, accountability, and data protection.
Sasha Golevnev Joins CS Faculty as an Assistant Professor
Sasha Golovnev obtained Ph.D. from NYU, and completed a post-doc at Harvard University before joining Georgetown. His research interests include computational complexity, algorithms, pseudorandomness, cryptography, and learning theory.