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• Zhao Zhang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation

  Zhao Zhang (advisors: Micah Sherr and Ben Ujcich) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Transparently Utilizing Cross-Domain Resources in Modern Infrastructure”.

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• Georgetown’s Matt Blaze Testifies Before Congress on Major Cybersecurity Threat

  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 on

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• Georgetown students win at Hoya Hacks Hackathon 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 universities.

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• Yanchen Wang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation

  Yanchen Wang (advisor: Lisa Singh) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Using Different Modes of Correction to Improve Fairness”.

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• Elissa Redmiles Earns Recognition for Pioneering Socio-Technical Security Research

  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 AC

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• Georgetown Faculty and Students Contribute to Supreme Court Gun Regulation Case

  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 definiti

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• Georgetown Ranked as a Top University for Women in Computer Science

  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 recog

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• Shuo Liu successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation

  Shuo Liu (advisor: Nitin Vaidya) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Redundancy in Resilient Distributed Optimization and Related Problems”.

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• Laasya Bangalore successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation

  Laasya Bangalore (advisor: Muthu Venkitasubramaniam) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “On Round-Efficient Black-Box Constructions of Cryptographic Protocols”.

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• Ryan Wails and Micah Sherr Receive Best Practical Award at FOCI ’24

  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) f

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