Faculty

Sarah Adel Bargal

Position: Assistant Professor and Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Email: sarah.bargal@georgetown.edu
Interests: Computer vision, machine learning

Position: Professor and Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair
Email: mab497@georgetown.edu
Interests: Cryptography, computer and network security, and technology policy research

Philip Buffum

Position: Associate Teaching Professor
Email: pb925@georgetown.edu
Interests: intelligent virtual agents, game-based learning, CS education

Ray Essick

Position: Associate Teaching Professor
Email: ray.essick@georgetown.edu
Interests: switched and hybrid systems control, distributed semidefinite programming

Jeremy Fineman

Position: Provost’s Distinguished Professor and Wagner Term Chair
Email: jfineman@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: algorithm design and analysis, data structures, parallel algorithms, scheduling, memory-efficient algorithms

Ophir Frieder

Position: Professor
Email: ophir@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: information retrieval, medical informatics, & communication systems

Nazli Goharian

Position: Clinical Professor
Email: nazli@ir.cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: information retrieval and text mining, medical informatics, and social media mining

Sasha Golovnev

Position: Assistant Professor
Email: ag2074@georgetown.edu
Interests: computational complexity, algorithms, pseudorandomness, cryptography, and learning theory

Bala Kalyanasundaram

Position: Craves Family Professor
Email: kalyan@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: algorithms: on-line, parallel and/or randomized, concrete complexity, theory of learning, next generation network and bioinformatics

Mark Maloof

Position: Professor
Email: maloof@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: machine learning, data mining, online learning, concept drift, applications of machine learning and data mining to computer security

Shin’ichiro Matsuo

Position: Research Professor
Email: sm3377@georgetown.edu
Interests: information security, cryptography, cryptographic protocols, privacy enhancing technology, blockchain, cryptocurrency and crypto-economics

Jami Montgomery

Position: Professor of Practice
Email: jmontgomery@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: GPU computing and visualization

Calvin Newport

Position: Provost’s Distinguished Professor
Email: cnewport@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: distributed algorithms, wireless networks

Kobbi Nissim

Position: Professor, Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt, L.C.H.S. Term Chair in Computer Science
Email: yn171@georgetown.edu
Interests: cryptography, differential privacy, privacy law and policy

Elissa Redmiles

Position: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Email: elissa.redmiles@georgetown.edu
Interests: security, privacy, ethics, usable security, measurement studies, data science, human computer interaction

Nathan Schneider

Position: Associate Professor (joint with Linguistics)
Email: nathan.schneider@georgetown.edu
Interests: computational linguistics and natural language processing, including corpus annotation, machine learning, and applications

Micah Sherr

Position: Callahan Family Professor
Email: msherr@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: security, privacy, networks

Clay Shields

Position: Professor
Email: clay@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: computer security, network security, digital forensics

Lisa Singh

Position: Professor and Department Chair
Email: singh@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: data mining, social mining, privacy, visual analytics, data science, databases

J. Smart

Position: Research Professor
Email: smart@georgetown.edu
Interests: distributed systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, privacy, dynamic computation

Richard Squier

Position: Associate Professor Emeritus
Email: squier@georgetown.edu
Interests: parallel computation in bulk media, naturalized theory of computation, computational constraints of human communication

Justin Thaler

Position: Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Email: justin.thaler@georgetown.edu
Interests: algorithms for massive data sets, verifiable computation, computational learning

Benjamin Ujcich

Position: Assistant Professor
Email: bu31@georgetown.edu
Interests: security, networking, systems, provenance, accountability, data protection

Nitin Vaidya

Position: Professor and Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair
Email: nitin.vaidya@georgetown.edu
Interests: distributed algorithms and systems, secure/fault-tolerant algorithms for optimization and machine learning

Mahe Velauthapillai

Position: Professor and McBride Family Endowed Chair
Email: mahe@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: learning theory, algorithms, and bioinformatics

Radha Venkatagiri

Position: Assistant Professor
Email: rv479@georgetown.edu
Interests: computer architecture, hardware resiliency and approximate computing