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CS Spotlight Series: A Conversation with Professor Benjamin Ujcich

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…

August 8, 2025

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Trailblazing Computer Scientist and Educator Yoshi Kohno Joins Georgetown CS

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…

August 6, 2025

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At United Nations Summer Program, Wisdom Obinna Examines AI Ethics

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.…

July 23, 2025

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Massive Data Institute drives community efforts to preserve at-risk data

“Without administrative data, we cannot understand the impact of different initiatives and policies on the public. We also do not know who is benefiting and who is being harmed,”…

July 17, 2025

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How Georgetown Linguists, Legal Expert Scored a Win in Supreme Court ‘Ghost Guns’ Case

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…

June 13, 2025

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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…

May 9, 2025

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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,…

April 29, 2025

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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”.…

April 11, 2025

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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…

April 2, 2025

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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…

January 29, 2025