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How Georgetown Linguists, Legal Expert Scored a Win in Supreme Court ‘Ghost Guns’ Case
June 13th, 2025
A Georgetown team of two linguists and a law professor celebrated an achievement at the Supreme Court after their amicus (“friend of the court”) brief was cited in the 7-to-2 majority…
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CS Spotlight Series: A Conversation with Professor Ophir Frieder
May 9th, 2025
As part of our new CS Spotlight Series at Georgetown, we spoke with Professor Ophir Frieder, whose focus is on scalable information systems and health informatics. An inductee of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IEEE, and NAI, Professor Frieder is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences and the faculty of the Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics in the Medical Center at Georgetown University.…
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Hrishikesh Kulkarni successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
April 29th, 2025
Hrishikesh Kulkarni (advisors: Ophir Frieder and Nazli Goharian) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Set, ranked, and generative IR: Addressing low-resource, low-latency, and…
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Zhao Zhang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
April 11th, 2025
Zhao Zhang (advisors: Micah Sherr and Ben Ujcich) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Transparently Utilizing Cross-Domain Resources in Modern…
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Georgetown’s Matt Blaze Testifies Before Congress on Major Cybersecurity Threat
April 2nd, 2025
On April 2, Georgetown professor Matt Blaze, a leading expert in cryptography and secure systems, and the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law, testified before the House Oversight Committee…
