Ryan Wails successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
December 17th, 2025
Ryan Wails (advisor: Micah Sherr) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “An Interplay of Modern Traffic Analysis and Internet Censorship and Circumvention…
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Autumn Toney-Wails successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation
December 5th, 2025
Autumn Toney-Wails (advisor: Lisa Singh) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Contextualized Capabilities: Strengths and Limitations of LLMs in Factual and Human-Like Text Generation…
Georgetown University CS Students Meet Senator Bernie Sanders and AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
December 3rd, 2025
On Tuesday November 18, Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) hosted a conversation “AI: The Promise and the Peril” with Senator Bernie Sanders and Dr. Geoffrey…
Georgetown Computer Science Team Named DC State Champion at 2025 ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest
December 3rd, 2025
A Georgetown University student team was recently named the DC state champion at the 2025 ICPC North America Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest, marking the university’s return to the International…
Assistant Professor in Theory of Computing
November 14th, 2025
The Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in August…
Bertrand Chair in Artificial Intelligence
November 14th, 2025
The College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University invites applications for the Bertrand Chair in Computer Science. The Bertrand Chair is an endowed chair for a computer science scholar…
Georgetown Faculty Co-Authored Paper Wins Best Paper in Social Impact at 2025 CSAW Applied Research Competition
November 11th, 2025
A paper co-authored by a research team from the University of Florida, the University of Washington, and Georgetown University has received the Best Paper in Social Impact award at the 2025 CSAW…
Georgetown CS Alums Share Insights on Mastering the Tech Interview in the Age of AI
November 4th, 2025
At the Department of CS Career Day held on October 10, 2025, three GU CS alums shared their insights and advice on technical jobs and interviewing in the AI era. The “Mastering the Tech…
Georgetown Faculty Honored for Outstanding Research, Teaching at Fall Convocation
October 30th, 2025
On Oct. 28, Muthu Venkitasubramaniam processed through Gaston Hall alongside other newly promoted faculty. In his arms he carried his 2-year-old daughter with a big smile on his…
Georgetown Grad Student Team Wins International Natural Language Processing Challenge
October 28th, 2025
A team of three current and former Georgetown graduate students in computational linguistics and computer science has won an international competition in natural language processing and will…
Georgetown University’s “A.I. in Art: Perceptions, Values, & Rights” Exhibit Featured at 2025 TechProm
October 27th, 2025
“What does this tool of generative AI mean for art—and for us as a society that appreciates art?” This was the central question posed earlier this year at Georgetown University’s A.I. in…
CS Career Day Brings Alumni Back to the Hilltop for Career Insights, Connection and Community
October 14th, 2025
The Department of Computer Science hosted its annual CS Career Day on October 10, bringing together students, faculty and CS alumni employers for a day of career insights and community. This event…
CS Spotlight Series: A Conversation with Professor Nathan Schneider
September 29th, 2025
By Mariam Khan, Georgetown University In this edition of the CS Spotlight Series, we sat down with Professor Nathan Schneider to learn more about his research in computational linguistics, his…
Georgetown University Computer Science Master’s Program Ranked #15 by TechGuide
September 24th, 2025
Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Computer Science program has been ranked #15 nationwide in The Best Master’s Degree in Computer Science Programs for 2025 by TechGuide. TechGuide’s…
Georgetown Secures NSF Grant Focused on Socio-Technical Interventions Against AI-Generated Abuse
September 12th, 2025
The Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) grant totaling $1,200,000 ($542K for…
Professor Yoshi Kohno Receives His Fifth Test of Time Award at USENIX Security Symposium
September 10th, 2025
Professor Yoshi Kohno, the McDevitt Chair in Computer Science, Ethics, and Society and professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Digital Ethics at Georgetown University has…
Grace Yang and Muthu Venkitasubramaniam Promoted to Professor
September 10th, 2025
Prof. Grace Yang and Prof. Muthuramakrishnan (Muthu) Venkitasubramaniam have been promoted to the rank of Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. Their promotions…
Elissa Redmiles Selected as One of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35
September 9th, 2025
Elissa Redmiles, the Clare Luce Boothe assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s innovators under…
Prof. Shin’ichiro Matsuo’s Blockchain Wallet Governance Paper Nominated for Best Paper Award at IEEE ICBC 2025
September 7th, 2025
We’re proud to share that Prof. Shin’ichiro Matsuo’s paper, “Biometrics Enhances Blockchain Wallet Governance,” has been nominated as a Best Paper Award Candidate at the IEEE International…
Professor Cal Newport Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered
September 7th, 2025
We’re excited to share that Professor Cal Newport was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered to unpack what today’s AI can, and can’t do. While AI tools have generated enormous buzz,…
$13.7M gift establishes endowed Computer Science chair focused on artificial intelligence
September 5th, 2025
Thanks to a $13.7 million gift from Robert (C’62) and Allison Bertrand (Parents’05), Georgetown University will create the Robert W. Bertrand Endowed Chair in Computer Science to focus on…
Georgetown Faculty Co-Author Runner-Up for 2025 Internet Defense Prize at USENIX Security 2025
August 16th, 2025
A paper co-authored by a research team from the University of Florida, the University of Washington, and Georgetown University has been named the runner-up for the 2025 Internet Defense Prize at…
CS Spotlight Series: A Conversation with Professor Benjamin Ujcich
August 8th, 2025
By Mariam Khan, Georgetown University As part of our CS Spotlight Series, we spoke with Professor Benjamin Ujcich, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown…
Trailblazing Computer Scientist and Educator Yoshi Kohno Joins Georgetown CS
August 6th, 2025
Yoshi Kohno, a celebrated computer scientist and passionate educator working at the intersection of computer science and ethics, has joined the College of Arts & Sciences as the Robert L.…
At United Nations Summer Program, Wisdom Obinna Examines AI Ethics
July 23rd, 2025
Wisdom Obinna has long admired the United Nations’ work for the public good. The Ph.D. student in computer science hoped to work with the intergovernmental organization one day. This summer, he…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
SOLID | The 2025 Symposium on Legal Interpretation and Data
March 1st, 2025
This event convenes scholars of law, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science to discuss new empirical approaches to questions in legal interpretation. An international…
Georgetown students win at Hoya Hacks Hackathon 2025
January 29th, 2025
Hoya Hacks, Georgetown’s annual hackathon, organized by the Department of Computer Science and sponsored by Microsoft, brought together more than 250 students from over 40 colleges and…
Georgetown Art, Computer Science & Law launch Juried AI Art Competition
January 10th, 2025
Calls for submissions to the Georgetown University Juried AI Art Competition opened today. Members of the campus community and those from local institutions are invited to sign up to participate in…
Yanchen Wang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
December 6th, 2024
Yanchen Wang (advisor: Lisa Singh) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Using Different Modes of Correction to Improve…
Elissa Redmiles Earns Recognition for Pioneering Socio-Technical Security Research
October 23rd, 2024
Prof. Elissa M. Redmiles has received the Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). The award was presented at the 2024…
Georgetown Faculty and Students Contribute to Supreme Court Gun Regulation Case
October 23rd, 2024
Last week, Georgetown’s Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider, and Brandon Waldon published an op-ed in The Hill about the Supreme Court case Garland v. VanDerStok, which addresses whether the legal…
Georgetown Ranked as a Top University for Women in Computer Science
October 12th, 2024
Georgetown University has earned a prestigious ranking as the second-best university for women in computer science, just behind Carnegie Mellon University, according to Washington Monthly. This…
Shuo Liu successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
August 22nd, 2024
Shuo Liu (advisor: Nitin Vaidya) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Redundancy in Resilient Distributed Optimization and Related…
Laasya Bangalore successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation
August 20th, 2024
Laasya Bangalore (advisor: Muthu Venkitasubramaniam) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “On Round-Efficient Black-Box Constructions of Cryptographic…
Ryan Wails and Micah Sherr Receive Best Practical Award at FOCI ’24
August 8th, 2024
Ryan Wails and Prof. Micah Sherr received the Best Practical Award at the 2024 Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI ’24) program at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)…
Shabnam Behzad successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation
July 31st, 2024
Shabnam Behzad (co-advisors: Nathan Schneider and Amir Zeldes, Department of Linguistics) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Language Learning Meets Generative AI: Utilizing Large…
Aryaman Arora receives the 2024 Tropaia Computer Science Award
May 22nd, 2024
Aryaman Arora was the recipient of the Computer Science Tropaia Award at the 105th annual Tropaia…
Michael Kranzlein successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
May 13th, 2024
Michael Kranzlein (advisor: Nathan Schneider) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Unpacking Meaning with Natural Language Processing: Legal Metalanguage Analysis and Long-Tail…
Ten students win Outstanding TA Award
May 9th, 2024
Ten students won the Department’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The Award recognizes exemplary TAs who have significantly enhanced the learning experience of students through their…
Jeremy Fineman and Cal Newport promoted to Professor
May 6th, 2024
Prof. Jeremy Fineman and Prof. Cal Newport have been promoted to the rank of Professor effective August 1,…
Georgetown students win at Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2AI)
May 3rd, 2024
Georgetown students Reed Uhlik, Sameer Tirumala, and Jason Yi won two prizes recently at the Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2AI) held at Georgetown University: a runner up ($2000) and a people’s…
Shira Wein receives Dr. Karen Gale Exceptional PhD Student Award
April 30th, 2024
Dr. Shira Wein was the recipient of the Georgetown University Dr. Karen Gale Exceptional PhD Student Award. This award recognizes a Ph.D. graduate student who demonstrates a high level of excellence…
Jeremy Fineman receives Best Paper Award
April 29th, 2024
Prof. Jeremy Fineman received a Best Paper Award at ACM STOC 2024 for his single-author paper “Single-Source Shortest Paths with Negative Real Weights in Õ(mn^8/9)…
Elissa Redmiles selected as delegate to EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC)
April 23rd, 2024
Prof. Elissa Redmiles was a delegate representing the US for the EU-US Trade & Technology Council Ministerial Meeting Technical Workshops of Working Group 5 on ‘From Data to Solutions Against…
Sajad Sotudeh successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
April 15th, 2024
Sajad Sotudeh (advisor: Nazli Goharian) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Effective Domain-Specific Text…
Kobbi Nissim selected as IACR Fellow
April 15th, 2024
Prof. Kobbi Nissim was selected as a 2024 Fellow for the International Association for Cryptologic Research…
Shuchen Zhu successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
April 5th, 2024
Shuchen Zhu (advisor: Justin Thaler) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Quantum Complexity, Simulation, and Random Access…
Dhiraj Saharia wins Open House Day Best Student Poster
March 22nd, 2024
During the Open House Day, graduate students presented posters of their research in a poster competition coordinated by Prof. Grace Hui Yang. The first place winner was Dhiraj Saharia for…
Sasha Golovnev receives NSF CAREER Award for lower bounds for shallow circuits
March 13th, 2024
Prof. Sasha Golovnev received a five-year NSF CAREER Award for investigating lower bounds for shallow…
Ben Ujcich receives NSF CAREER Award for secure and trustworthy intent-based networking
March 5th, 2024
Prof. Benjamin E. Ujcich received a five-year NSF CAREER Award for investigating secure and trustworthy intent-based networking…
Georgetown students win at Hoya Hacks Hackathon
February 15th, 2024
Georgetown students Annika Lin, Maggie Shen, Reed Uhlik and Sameer Tirumala were awarded the Cloudforce-Microsoft AI Track prize and second place overall prize for their project HoyaHelper in Hoya…
Shira Wein successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation
February 7th, 2024
Shira Wein (advisor: Nathan Schneider) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Development & Evaluation of Cross-lingual Abstract Meaning Representation”. She will be joining Amherst…
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam receives Distinguished Paper Award
December 5th, 2023
Prof. Muthu Venkitasubramaniam received the Distinguished Paper Award from the 2023 ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS) for “Batchman and Robin: Batched and Non-batched…
Department hosts Generative AI Panel
November 21st, 2023
The Department hosted a generative AI panel discussion on November 11 as part of the Master’s Monday Lunch Talk Series. The panelists were Prof. Sarah Adel Bargal (Department of Computer Science;…
Elissa Redmiles selected as Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
October 27th, 2023
Prof. Elissa Redmiles has been selected as a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor by the Henry Luce…
New Report Encourages Tech Companies to Prevent Image-Based Abuse
October 27th, 2023
A new report, co-authored by College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor Elissa Redmiles, encourages large tech companies to combat image-based sexual abuse on their…
Department hosts Grad Welcome Picnic
September 8th, 2023
As part of the annual Georgetown CS Graduate Orientation, the Department hosted the 2023 Graduate Student Welcome Picnic on September 8, 2023 at Volta Park. A special thanks to Prof. Grace Hui Yang,…
Rahel Fainchtein successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation
September 6th, 2023
Rahel Fainchtein (advisor: Micah Sherr) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “No Sieve is Good Enough: Examining the Creation, Enforcement and Evasion of Geofilters”. She will be joining…
Matt Blaze receives USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
August 15th, 2023
Matt Blaze, along with Steven M. Bellovin and Susan Landau, received the 2023 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the 2023 USENIX Security Symposium for their work at the intersection of…
Jiachi Zhang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
August 7th, 2023
Jiachi Zhang (advisor: Ben Ujcich) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Intelligent and Explainable Resource Optimizations in Distributed Systems”. He will be joining Alibaba as a…
Yaguang Liu successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
August 4th, 2023
Yaguang Liu (advisor: Lisa Singh) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Demographic Inference on Twitter”. He will be joining Meta as a Research…
Elissa Redmiles joins as Assistant Professor
July 31st, 2023
Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles has joined the Computer Science department as an Assistant Professor, effective July 2023. Dr. Redmiles’ research is in the areas of security and privacy, with an emphasis…
Shira Wein receives the 2023 Graduate Student Teaching Award
June 22nd, 2023
Shira Wein was the recipient of the at-large Graduate Student Teaching Award presented at the 2023 Graduate Student Awards Ceremony. This award recognizes excellence among graduate students acting…
CS Students Advance to Top 100 Teams in Google Competition
June 6th, 2023
The Google for Developer’s 2023 Solution Challenge involves developing a software solution that addresses one or more of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. CS majors Reed Uhlik, Matt…
Zachary Young receives the 2023 Tropaia Computer Science Award
May 26th, 2023
Zachary Young was the recipient of the Computer Science Tropaia Award at the 104th annual Tropaia…
Zhiwen Tang Joins Yunnan University as Associate Professor
March 14th, 2023
Zhiwen Tang obtained PhD from CS at Georgetown, supervised by Grace Hui Yang. Upon graduation in 2021, Zhiwen worked at Facebook AI. In 2022 he joined as Associate Professor at Yunnan University’s…
Best Paper Award at ICDCN 2023 Conference
January 9th, 2023
Shuo Liu, Nirupam Gupta and Nitin Vaidya received the Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) for their paper “Impact of Redundancy on…
Jeremy Fineman and Cal Newport receive Best Paper Award
October 19th, 2022
Jeremy Fineman, Cal Newport and co-authors received the Best Paper Award at the 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), October 2022, for their paper “Smoothed Analysis…
Georgetown students win accolades at HopHacks 2022
September 27th, 2022
Team Null consisting of Georgetown College students Anthony Duan, Palmer Hudson, Annika Lin, and Margaret Neely won accolades in three categories at HopHacks Fall 2022 for their game Breeze, which…
CS Faculty Receive Google Support for Research on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
September 6th, 2022
Professors Nissim, Thaler and Venkitasubramaniam have received support from Google for their work on zero-Knowledge proofs. Zero-knowledge proof (ZK) is a powerful cryptographic primitive that…
Radha Venkatagiri joins as Assistant Professor
September 1st, 2022
Dr. Radha Venkatagiri has joined the Computer Science department as an Assistant Professor, effective August 2022. Dr. Venkatagiri’s research is in computer architecture, with an emphasis on…
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for Kobbi Nissim
September 1st, 2022
Professor Kobbi Nissim and his co-authors are recipients of the prestigious 2021 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for their ground-breaking and impactful work on differential…
Sarah Adel Bargal joins as Assistant Professor
July 19th, 2022
Dr. Sarah Adel Bargal will join the Computer Science department in fall 2022 as an Assistant Professor and Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow.…
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam receives JP Morgan Faculty Research Award
July 15th, 2022
Prof. Muthu Venkitasubramaniam has received an award from the 2022 JP Morgan Faculty Research Awards program to support research on privacy-preserving machine…
Additional $5.1 Million for “Scholarship for Service”
May 31st, 2022
Professors Clay Shields, Eric Burger, Mark Maloof, and Micah Sherr have received a $5.1 million, five-year renewal to their existing Scholarship for Service award. This program supports students in…
Sean MacAvaney joins University of Glasgow as Lecturer
May 12th, 2022
Sean MacAvaney obtained PhD from CS at Georgetown, supervised by Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder. Upon graduation in 2021, Sean took up a post-doctoral researcher position at University of Glasgow.…
Andrew Yates joins University of Amsterdam as Assistant Professor
May 12th, 2022
Andrew Yates obtained PhD from CS at Georgetown, supervised by Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder. Upon graduation in 2016, Andrew took up a post-doctoral researcher and then senior researcher…
Arman Cohan joins Yale as Assistant Professor
May 12th, 2022
Arman Cohan obtained PhD from CS at Georgetown, supervised by Nazli Goharian. His dissertation was awarded the Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award by Georgetown University. Upon…
New Faculty
May 11th, 2022
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…
Congratulations to Shabnam Behzad for receiving the Graduate Student TA Award from Georgetown University!
April 22nd, 2022
Shabnam is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgetown. Her advisors are Nathan Schneider and Amir Zeldes.…
Hoya Hacks 2022
January 21st, 2022
Hoya Hacks is a hackathon organized annually at Georgetown University. Hoya Hacks 2022 was held during January 28-30,…
Multiple Faculty Positions in Support of Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Initiatives in Technology and Society
November 19th, 2021
In support of Georgetown’s interdisciplinary initiatives in technology and society, we invite applications for three new tenure-line faculty positions: two named endowed full professorships…
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”.
August 27th, 2021
Technology-assisted review (TAR) refers to human-in-the-loop machine learning workflows for document review in legal discovery and other high recall review tasks. Attorneys and legal technologists have debated whether review should be a single iterative process (one-phase TAR workflows) or whether model training and review should be separate (two-phase TAR workflows), with implications for the choice of active learning algorithm.…
Hannah Norman (C ’23) awarded a Clare Booth Luce Fellowship
August 25th, 2021
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 for the 2021-2022 academic year. …
Justin Goldstein selected as a Royden B. Davis Fellow by Georgetown College
April 29th, 2021
Justin Goldstein, a Computer Science major, is carrying out research under the supervision of Professor Grace…
