Faculty
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Sarah Adel Bargal
Position: Assistant Professor and Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Email: sarah.bargal@georgetown.edu
Interests: Computer vision, machine learning
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Matt Blaze
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
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Philip Buffum
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
Email: pb925@georgetown.edu
Interests: intelligent virtual agents, game-based learning, CS education
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Ray Essick
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
Email: ray.essick@georgetown.edu
Interests: switched and hybrid systems control, distributed semidefinite programming
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Jeremy Fineman
Position: Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor and Wagner Term Chair
Email: jfineman@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: algorithm design and analysis, data structures, parallel algorithms, scheduling, memory-efficient algorithms
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Ophir Frieder
Position: Professor
Email: ophir@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: information retrieval, medical informatics, & communication systems
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Nazli Goharian
Position: Clinical Professor
Email: nazli@ir.cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: information retrieval and text mining, medical informatics, and social media mining
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Sasha Golovnev
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: ag2074@georgetown.edu
Interests: computational complexity, algorithms, pseudorandomness, cryptography, and learning theory
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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
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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
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Shin’ichiro Matsuo
Position: Research Professor
Email: sm3377@georgetown.edu
Interests: information security, cryptography, cryptographic protocols, privacy enhancing technology, blockchain, cryptocurrency and crypto-economics
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Jami Montgomery
Position: Professor of Practice
Email: jmontgomery@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: GPU computing and visualization
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Calvin Newport
Position: Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Email: cnewport@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: distributed algorithms, wireless networks
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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
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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
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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
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Micah Sherr
Position: Callahan Family Professor
Email: msherr@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: security, privacy, networks
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Clay Shields
Position: Professor
Email: clay@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: computer security, network security, digital forensics
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Lisa Singh
Position: Professor and Department Chair
Email: singh@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: data mining, social mining, privacy, visual analytics, data science, databases
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J. Smart
Position: Research Professor
Email: smart@georgetown.edu
Interests: distributed systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, privacy, dynamic computation
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Richard Squier
Position: Associate Professor
Email: squier@georgetown.edu
Interests: parallel computation in bulk media, naturalized theory of computation, computational constraints of human communication
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Justin Thaler
Position: Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Email: justin.thaler@georgetown.edu
Interests: algorithms for massive data sets, verifiable computation, computational learning
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Benjamin Ujcich
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: bu31@georgetown.edu
Interests: security, networking, systems, provenance, accountability, data protection
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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
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Mahe Velauthapillai
Position: Professor and McBride Family Endowed Chair
Email: mahe@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: learning theory, algorithms, and bioinformatics
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Radha Venkatagiri
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: rv479@georgetown.edu
Interests: computer architecture, hardware resiliency and approximate computing
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Muthu Venkitasubramaniam
Position: Associate Professor
Email: mv783@georgetown.edu
Interests: cryptography, privacy, network security and complexity theory.
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Addison Woods
Position: Associate Teaching Professor
Email: waw23@georgetown.edu
Interests: database management, knowledge management, data warehousing, software engineering
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Grace Hui Yang
Position: Associate Professor
Email: huiyang@cs.georgetown.edu
Interests: information retrieval, deep reinforcement learning, machine learning, ontology, question answering, privacy