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CS Spotlight Series: A Conversation with Professor Ophir Frieder
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
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 fragmented-con
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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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