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Incoming Professor Rebecca Hwa Named New Computer Science Chair

Incoming Professor Rebecca Hwa is bringing her expertise in artificial intelligence and natural language processing to GW as the new Chair of the Computer Science Department!

Dr. Costis Toregas

Promoting Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Address the Global Climate Crisis

Dr. Costis Toregas has been invited to speak at the 2024 World Environmental Education Congress on the role artificial intelligence and smart technologies play in connecting people to create a...

Dr. Shih-kai Chung being officially named President of NTUA

Computer Science Alum Named President of the National Taiwan University of Arts

GW Engineering and Computer Science Department alumni Dr. Shih-kai Chung was recently named the 12th president of the National Taiwan University of Arts!

Professor Adam Aviv and two PhD students

Serving Understudied Communities Through Computer Security and Privacy Research

Congratulations to a team from the Computer Science Department on winning a Distinguished Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy!

(Left to right) Gina Adam, Ling Hao, Fang Jin and Arkady Yerukhimovich are advancing their fields with the help of NSF Career grants.

Two GW Engineering Researchers Received Prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in FY23

Latest recipients join 11 other GW faculty with active CAREER awards. The newest awardee from the Computer Science Department is Arkady Yerukhimovich!

Karl Simon holding a drone in the flight test facility of the Science & Engineering Hall

Computer Science Student Karl Simon Selected for Prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship

Congratulations to Karl Simon, a junior studying Computer Science, on being awarded the Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship!

Darakhshan Mir

Computer Science Alum Appointed to Endowed Position at Bucknell University

GW Engineering and computer science department alumni Darakhshan Mir, M.S.’06, has recently been appointed to the endowed position of John P. and Mary Jane Swanson Professor in Engineering and the...

Nelson Jaimes receiving his award

Advancing Information Sciences Through Emerging and Disruptive Technologies

Congratulations to Computer Science Ph.D. student, Nelson Jaimes, on presenting the paper, "Using biologically hierarchical modular architecture for explainable, tunable, generalizable, spatial AI,”...

Elyse Nicolas

GenCyber GW Middle School Girls Cybersecurity Camp 2022 Program

Professorial Lecturer, adjunct faculty member in the Computer Science Department, Elyse Nicolas is the Principal Investigator/Program Director on a grant awarded to GW for a 2022 GenCyber camp...

Senator Mark Warner and President Mark Wrighton

GW Business & Policy Forum Cultivates Impactful Dialogue on Attacking Cybersecurity Risks

The inaugural GW Business & Policy Forum: Attacking Cybersecurity Risks was held on April 25 to examine emerging cybersecurity threats affecting national security and resulting in high costs for...