Department of Computer Science

Apply For MS and PhD Programs in Computer Science

• All our Ph.D. students receive funding, including a stipend and tuition support. Click here for more information, including the application procedure.
• We are also accepting applications for the MS program.
• For Georgetown undergraduate students pursuing the B.S. in Computer Science, we offer an Accelerated M.S. program. Applications for fall admission are due January 15

New Faculty

Dr. Elissa Redmiles will join the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in 2023.

Dr. Redmiles has made important contributions in the area of security and privacy, and her papers have received awards at several technical conferences. She obtained Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park.

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.

Hoya Hacks 202

Hoya Hacks is a hackathon organized annually at Georgetown University . Hoya Hacks 2022 will be held during January 28 – 30 , 2022…

Eugene Yang receives Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Twenty-First Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng) for a paper co-authored with David Lewis and Ophir Frieder, entitled “On Minimizing Cost in Legal Document Review Workflows”.

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Hannah Norman (C ’23) awarded a Clare Booth Luce Fellowship

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce that Hannah Norman ( C ‘ 23 ) was awarded a Clare Booth Luce Fellowship , which provides research support…

Zhiwen Tang successfully defends his PhD dissertation titled Deep Reinforcement Learning for Interactive Systems

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Eugene Yang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation titled Cost Reduction and Modeling of Technology-Assisted Review

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Logan Arkema (2020 CS Tropaia recipient) & Micah Sherr’s paper receives the Best Student Paper Award at the 2021 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).

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Ryan Wails, a CS Ph.D. student, receives prestigious graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation

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Justin Thaler and Co-authors Receive the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS)

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