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,…
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…
Sean MacAvaney successfully defends his PhD Dissertation
March 26th, 2021
Sean has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on “Effective and Practical Neural Ranking”. Now he is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow.…
Cal Newport interviewed on Ezra Klein podcast, New York Times
March 5th, 2021
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
February 12th, 2021
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
January 28th, 2021
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
January 19th, 2021
Clay Shields and Mark Maloof recently received a supplement from the National Science Foundation to fund three outreach activities designed to recruit and support first-generation and underpresented…
Sean MacAvaney Receives Outstanding Intern Award from Allen Institute for AI
December 28th, 2020
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
December 5th, 2020
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
December 5th, 2020
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.…
Kobbi Nissim Receives the Prestigious Distinguished Achievement in Research Award from Georgetown University
October 14th, 2020
The award recognizes Kobbi Nissim’s fundamental contributions to the theory and practical application of differential privacy, algorithmic mechanisms that allow maximal information to be gleaned from sensitive datasets while maintaining the privacy of individual data. …
Georgetown Students Among DC Inno 25 Under 25
October 4th, 2020
DC Inno named four Georgetown students among the 25 under 25 for their work on Globally Unified Air Quality (GUAC). Two of these students, Simra Ali and Michael Bartholic, are CS majors.…
Nazli Goharian and MedStar Collaborators Receive AHRQ R01 Grant
September 17th, 2020
Nazli Goharian in collaboration with MedStar Researchers Raj Ratwani and Allan Fong are awarded a $1.5M R01 grant from the Agency for Health Care and Quality (AHRQ), to develop natural language processing solutions to process patient safety reports.…
First-Year Student, Aryaman Arora, Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference
September 1st, 2020
Aryaman Arora (C’24) collaborated with Professor Nathan Schneider to develop a better way for machines to transcribe Hindi and Punjabi writing for pronunciation by text-to-speech software.…
Matt Blaze and Co-Authors Receive Test-of-Time Award
May 18th, 2020
Matt Blaze and co-authors Joan Feigenbaum and Jack Lacy received the Test-of-Time Award for their paper Decentralized Trust Management that appeared in the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (also known as the “Oakland conference”).…
Cal Newport’s Articles Appear in New Yorker, Communications of the ACM and Wired Magazine
April 26th, 2020
Cal is an author of several books, including “Digital Minimalism” and “Deep Work”, that address issues at the intersection of technology and culture. His opinion pieces have appeared recently in…
Adrian Hertel, Minor in Computer Science, Develops Program To Let You Know When Food Delivery Slots Open Up
April 9th, 2020
Adrian Hertel, a Georgetown student who minors in computer science, created a program that will automatically notify users when time slots open on Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods.…
Best Paper Award for Shaobo Wang, Wenchao Zhou and co-authors, for their 2020 EDBT paper titled “Provenance for Probabilistic Logic Programs”.
March 26th, 2020
EDBT (International Conference on Extending Database Technology) is a leading international forum for database researchers, developers, and users.…
J. Smart and collaborators at Georgetown University develop COVID-2019 Symptom Tracker
March 19th, 2020
Leveraging Georgetown University’s AvesTerra knowledge orchestration framework, the university has a history of developing and implementing sociotechnical systems including development of platforms that inform public health. …
Differential privacy among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020 named by MIT Technology Review
February 26th, 2020
Prof. Kobbi Nissim is a co-inventor of differential privacy.…
Georgetown Students Win the Hack for Good Challenge at TartanHacks 2020
February 25th, 2020
Georgetown team consisting Wendy Boeker, Karina Chan, Karissa Prayogo , and David Yao participated in TartanHacks 2020 at CMU and won the Microsoft Hack for Good Challenge.…
Prof. Ophir Frieder’s Explainable AI-Driven Prescription Prediction Technology Licensed by Maxeler Technologies
January 24th, 2020
Using the patent-pending technology developed at Georgetown’s Information Retrieval Laboratory, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at Georgetown to productize scalable, patient-specific, prescription selectors, reducing drug resistance, thereby improving patient care. …
Sally Matson, CS and Mathematics major, receives the prestigious Marshall Scholarship
December 10th, 2019
Sally Matson (C’20), a Georgetown senior who wants to use machine learning to combat climate change, is one of two Georgetown students named a 2020 Marshall Scholarship recipient. …
Matt Blaze Testifies on the Capitol Hill at a Hearing on Defending Against Election Interference
November 24th, 2019
Prof. Matt Blaze provided testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation’s Hearing on…
Eric Burger appointed Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
November 23rd, 2019
Eric Burger has been appointed the Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. His portfolio will focus on telecommunications and cybersecurity.…
Mark Maloof and Clay Shields Participate in Georgetown’s Summer College Immersion Program
November 23rd, 2019
Over the summer of 2019, Professor Clay Shields and Mark Maloof taught Introduction to Python Programming for Computer Security as part of Georgetown’s Summer College Immersion Program. Seventeen…
Lisa Singh and Collaborators Receive a Large NSF Grant to Explore the Future of Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences
September 26th, 2019
Prof. Lisa Singh in Computer Science and her collaborators at Georgetown University and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor have received a new grant from the National Science Foundation. In…
Lisa Singh Receives Grant from National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research
August 14th, 2019
Lisa Singh was awarded a $569K grant by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR) to investigate the use of data from social media posts to measure gun-related…
Justin Thaler Leads New NSF Project on Automatically Parallelizing Approximate Data Analysis with Mergeable Summaries
July 19th, 2019
Justin Thaler (PI), Jeremy Fineman, and Ophir Frieder were awarded a $614K NSF grant to develop highly efficient, highly accurate, and highly scalable algorithms for approximate query…
Micah Sherr Leads New DARPA Project on Reliable Anonymous Communication
June 4th, 2019
Micah Sherr (PI), Eric Burger, Clay Shields, and Wenchao Zhou were awarded a $3.1M DARPA contract for the Reliable Anonymous Communication Evading Censors And Repressors (RACECAR) project. …
Jeremy Fineman awarded Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor designation
January 17th, 2019
Prof. Jeremy Fineman has been awarded the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor designation at Georgetown University. He is the Wagner Term Chair in Computer Science.…
Professor Matt Blaze joins Computer Science and Law faculty
January 1st, 2019
Matt Blaze, an expert in computer and network security, has joined Georgetown University as a Computer Science and Law professor and the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair. Matt comes to Georgetown from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Professor of Computer and Information Science.…
Professor Cal Newport receives Best Paper Award at OPODIS 2018
December 18th, 2018
Professor Calvin Newport and co-authors have received the Best Paper Award for their paper “On Simple Back-Off in Unreliable Radio Networks” at the 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS).…
Nitin Vaidya joins as Chair of the CS department
October 15th, 2018
Nitin Vaidya joined as Chair of the CS department on July 1, 2018. He previously served as the Associate Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include distributed computing, fault-tolerance, machine learning and wireless networks.…
Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang received Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR).
October 11th, 2018
Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang received Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM nternational Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR).…
Professor Kobbi Nissim receives 2018 TCC Test-of-Time Award
August 8th, 2018
Kobbi Nissim received the 2018 Test-of-Time Award from the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC). He previously received the 2017 Gödel Prize and the 2016 Test-of-Time Award from the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC).…
Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.
May 10th, 2018
“Companies have to ensure user-friendliness of their devices, because that’s their major selling point,” said Tavish Vaidya, a researcher at Georgetown.…
Professor Ophir Frieder is inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
April 10th, 2018
Professor Ophir Frieder inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018 and elected into 2018 class of Academia Europaea.…
Is privacy dead? What happens to your data and why it matters.
March 29th, 2018
Professor Singh discusses data, security, and privacy.…
Should Computer Education Cover More Than Just Coding?
February 15th, 2017
…But computers are not just about coding… and those theoretical concepts form the basis of much of computer science education in colleges and universities. Lisa Singh, an associate professor at Georgetown University, stands behind that theoretical approach.…
Professor Singh quoted in Education Week – Balancing Coding and Theory in Computer Science
February 17th, 2016
…On the other side are experts who say that students should at least be exposed to underlying ideas. NPR quotes Lisa Singh, an associate professor at Georgetown University, who says that students should learn the principles of thinking behind coding languages. ……
Alumni Spotlight: Richard Frankel
April 15th, 2015
Richard Frankel, class of 2008, is a Software Engineer at Google…
New GU group encourages women to code
May 22nd, 2014
A new Georgetown computer science group is hoping to strengthen the odds that more women will go into the field of technology or use coding in their daily lives.…
