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• Sean MacAvaney, a CS Ph.D. candidate, is a recipient of an Endowment Fellowship for 2019-20 from the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the ARCS Foundation

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• Professor Justin Thaler receives the prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for research on “The Polynomial Method in Complexity and Cryptography”.

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• Jeremy Fineman awarded Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor designation

  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.

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• Professor Matt Blaze joins Computer Science and Law faculty

  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.

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• Professor Cal Newport receives Best Paper Award at OPODIS 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).

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• Nitin Vaidya joins as Chair of the CS department

  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.

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• Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian received the Best Long Paper Award at the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

  Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian received the Best Long Paper Award at the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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• Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang received Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR).

  Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang received Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM nternational Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR).

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• CNN story about security of voter registration systems: Micah Sherr:

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• Professor Kobbi Nissim receives 2018 TCC Test-of-Time Award

  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).

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