
Sam King successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
Sam King (advisors: Sasha Golovnev and Jeremy Fineman) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Time vs Space Trade-offs with Complexity-Theoretic Applications”.
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Sam King (advisors: Sasha Golovnev and Jeremy Fineman) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Time vs Space Trade-offs with Complexity-Theoretic Applications”.

In this Summer 2026 Issue: Chair's Message, Student Honors and Celebrations, Faculty News and Promotions, and Department Highlights and Events

Dagny Whall (advisor: Radha Venkatagiri) successfully defended her M.S. thesis “Accelerating Financial Monte Carlo Calculations Using Approximation”.

Chao Yan (advisor: Kobbi Nissim) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Geometric Approaches for Private Learning”.

Jacob Heybey (advisor: Ben Ujcich) successfully defended his M.S. thesis “Vulnerabilities in SmartNIC Programming Models”.

Sidhant Sarogi (advisors: Justin Thaler and Sasha Golovnev) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Insights into Complexity from Combinatorial Structure”.

Karthik Gajulapalli (advisor: Sasha Golovnev) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “From Compression to Computation”.

The Department of Computer Science hosted the 3rd DMV Security Workshop on Friday, March 20, 2026 on the Georgetown University Capitol Campus. The event brought together approximately 80 faculty, students, and researchers from academia, industry, government, and non-profits in the DC area who are interested in cybersecurity and privacy research.

Yoshi Kohno, the McDevitt Chair in Computer Science, Ethics, and Society and professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Digital Ethics, has been named a 2025 ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Ryan Wails (advisor: Micah Sherr) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “An Interplay of Modern Traffic Analysis and Internet Censorship and Circumvention Techniques”.