Dick Lipton

Dick  Lipton

Dick Lipton

Professor
Richard "Dick" Lipton, Ph.D., is a Professor in the College of Computing and the Frederick G. Storey Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His professional career has included numerous contributions to computer science theory, data security models, program correctness, and bioinformatics. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he held faculty appointments at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University and held leading positions in industry as the founding director of a computer science research laboratory for Panasonic Corporation. Today, he continues as a chief consulting scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). Lipton's research is primarily, but not exclusively focused on theory. Lipton also has made important contributions in the areas of program testing, software engineering and most recently, DNA computing. This latter area combines molecular biology and computer science. It is generally acknowledged that Lipton was an original pioneers of the bioinformatics field of DNA computing, along with Len Adleman. He is the 2014 recipient of the Knuth Prize for outstanding contributions to computer science, presented by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Lipton is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, was elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1997 and was honored as a Guggeneheim Fellow in 1981.

rjl@cc.gatech.edu

404.894.6438

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Additional Research:
Algorithms; Healthcare Security; Programming Languages & Correctness

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Bill Harris

Bill  Harris

Bill Harris

Assistant Professor
William Harris, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on addressing problems in program security and correctness. He has spoken widely about secure programming via game-based synthesis. He oversees the Trustable Programming Group, which extends and applies techniques from program analysis and synthesis to make these problems tractable. Harris worked as a visiting researcher for NEC Labs America and Microsoft Research, and was a Microsoft Research Fellow from 2010-11. Work that he performed while visiting Microsoft, in combination with his mentor Sumit Gulwani and collaborator Rishabh Singh, was cited by Communications of the ACM as a "Research Highlight." Harris received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Purdue University, and his Master’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was advised by Somesh Jha and Thomas Reps.

wharris@cc.gatech.edu

404-385-2938

Office Location:
KACB 2322

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Additional Research:
Programming Languages & Correctness; Software & Applications; Trust

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David White

David White

David White

Executive Director of OMSCS
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

David White leads the Office of Academic Administration, which provides academic advising for the BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. Mr. White coordinates the schedule of classes with the College's three Schools and the Division of Computing Instruction, and works with the College's Technology Services Organization to provide student information systems. He also frequently represents the College on academic initiatives, including the Institute's steering committee for Complete College Georgia.

As Executive Director of the Online MS in Computer Science, Mr. White works closely with the faculty, many Georgia Tech administrative departments, and Udacity to ensure the goals and responsibilities of the program are met.

Mr. White came to Georgia Tech in 2001 as a student in the MS program in Human-Computer Interaction. He began working full time for the College of Computing in 2004 as academic advisor for the MS in Human-Computer Interaction and the BS in Computational Media. Since that time he has also served as Academic Programs Coordinator for the School of Interactive Computing and Director of Graduate Programs for the College.

Mr. White has a BA in English from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech.

drwhite@cc.gatech.edu

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Judy Hoffman

Judy Hoffman

Judy Hoffman

Assistant Professor; College of Computing

Judy Hoffman is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, a member of the Machine Learning Center, and a Diversity and Inclusion Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning with specialization in domain adaptation, transfer learning, adversarial robustness, and algorithmic fairness. She has received numerous awards including the Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award (2021), the NVIDIA female leader in computer vision award (2020), AIMiner top 100 most influential scholars in Machine Learning (2020), MIT EECS Rising Star in 2015, and is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship. In addition to her research, she co-founded and continues to advise for Women in Computer Vision, an organization which provides mentorship and travel support for early-career women in the computer vision community. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016 after which she completed postdocs at Stanford University (2017) and UC Berkeley (2018).

judy@gatech.edu

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    Additional Research:
    Machine LearningComputer VisionArtificial Intelligence

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    Polo Chau

    Polo Chau

    Polo Chau

    Director of Industry Relations, Institute for Data Engineering and Science
    Associate Professor
    Associate Director, MS in Analytics

    Duen Horng "Polo" Chau, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering, and an Associate Director of the MS Analytics program. He holds a Ph.D. and Master's in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, where his doctoral thesis won CMU’s Computer Science Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. Chau has received faculty awards from Google, Yahoo, and LexisNexis. He also received the Raytheon Faculty Fellowship, Edenfield Faculty Fellowship, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He is the only two-time Symantec fellow and an award-winning designer. Chau’s research lab  -- the Polo Club of Data Science -- bridges data mining and HCI to solve large-scale, real-world problems by developing scalable, interactive, and interpretable tools for big data analytics. The group's "Polonium" malware detection technology (patented with Symantec) protects 120 million people worldwide. Its auction fraud detection research was widely covered by media, and its fake-review-detection research received the “Best Student Paper” award at the 2014 SIAM Data Mining Conference. Other work has addressed content spam, insider trading, and unauthorized mobile device access. He co-organized the IDEA workshop series at KDD that facilitate cross-pollination across HCI and data mining. He served as general chair for ACM IUI 2015 and was a steering committee member of the conference.

    polo@gatech.edu

    404.385.7682

    Office Location:
    KACB 1324

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Delivery & Storage
    • Policy & Economics
    • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
    Additional Research:
    Data Mining & Analytics; Machine Learning; Threat Intelligence; Cyber/ Information Technology; Computer Interaction; Cybersecurity; Visualization;

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    Rich DeMillo

    Rich DeMillo

    Richard, Rich DeMillo

    Professor

    Richard DeMillo is the Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech. He was formerly the John P. Imlay Dean of Computing. Positions he has held prior to joining Georgia Tech include: Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett-Packard, Vice President of Computing Research for Bell Communications Research, Director of the Computer Research Division for the National Science Foundation, and Director of the Software Test and Evaluation Project for the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin, Purdue University and the University of Padua, Italy. His research includes over 100 articles, books and patents in algorithms, software and computer engineering, cryptography, and cyber security. In 1982, he wrote the first policy for testing software intensive systems for the US Department of Defense. DeMillo and his collaborators launched and developed the field of program mutation for software testing. He is a co-inventor of Differential Fault Cryptanalysis and holds what is believed to be the only patent on breaking public key cryptosystems. He currently works in the area of election and voting system security. His work has been cited in court cases, including a 2019 Federal Court decision declaring unconstitutional the use of paperless voting machines. He has served as a foreign election observer for the Carter Center and is a member of the State of Michigan Election Security Commission. He has served on boards of public and private cybersecurity and privacy companies, including RSA Security and SecureWorks. He has served on many non-profit and philanthropic boards including the Exploratorium and the Campus Community Partnership Foundation (formerly the Rosalind and Jimmy Carter Foundation). He is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2010, he founded the Center for 21st Century Universities, Georgia Tech’s living laboratory for fundamental change in higher education. He served as Executive Director for ten years. He was named Lumina Foundation Fellow for his work in higher education. His 2015 book Revolution in Higher Education, published by MIT Press, won the Best Education Book award from the American Association of Publishers and helped spark a national conversation about online education.  He co-chaired Georgia Tech’s Commission on Creating the Next in Education.  The Commission’s report was released in 2018. He received the ANAK Society’s Outstanding Faculty Member Award.

    rad@gatech.edu

    404-385-4273

    Office Location:
    CODA 0962B

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Cybersecurity Public Policy
    • Systems and Software Security
    • Threat Intelligence and Security Analytics
    Additional Research:
    Algorithms; Computer Engineering; Architecture & Design; Data Security & Privacy; Encryption; Network Security; Software & Applications

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    Yingyan (Celine) Lin

    Yingyan (Celine) Lin

    Yingyan (Celine) Lin

    Associate Professor

    Yingyan (Celine) Lin is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She leads the Efficient and Intelligent Computing (EIC) Lab, which focuses on developing efficient machine learning systems via cross-layer innovations from algorithm to architecture down to chip design, aiming to promote green AI and enable ubiquitous machine learning powered intelligence. She received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. 

    Prof. Lin is a Facebook Research Award (2020), NSF CAREER Award (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2021), and Meta Faculty Research Award (2022) recipient, and received the ACM SIGDA Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 2022. She was selected as a Rising Star in EECS by the 2017 Academic Career Workshop for Women at Stanford University. She received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2016), and the 2016 Robert T. Chien Memorial Award for Excellence in Research at UIUC. Prof. Lin is currently the lead PI of multiple multi-university projects, such as RTML and 3DML, and her group has been funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, SRC, ONR, Qualcomm, Intel, HP, IBM, and Meta. Her group’s research won first place in both the University Demonstration at DAC 2022 and the ACM/IEEE TinyML Design Contest at ICCAD 2022, and was selected as an IEEE Micro Top Pick of 2023

    celine.lin@gatech.edu

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • AI
    • AI Systems
    • Machine Learning

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    Joy Arulraj

    Joy Arulraj

    Joy Arulraj

    Assistant Professor

    Joy Arulraj is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interest is in database management systems, specifically large-scale data analytics, main memory systems,  machine learning, and big code analytics. At Georgia Tech, he is a member of the Database group.

    jarulraj3@gatech.edu

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Machine Learning
    Additional Research:

    Data Systems


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    Alex Endert

    Alex Endert

    Alex Endert

    Assistant Professor

    Alex Endert is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He directs the Visual Analytics Lab, where he works with his students to design and study how interactive visual tools help people make sense of data and AI. His lab often tests these advances in domains, including intelligence analysis, cyber security, decision-making, manufacturing safety, and others. His lab receives generous support from sponsors, including NSF, DOD, DHS, DARPA, DOE, and industry. In 2018, he received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work on visual analytics by demonstration. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2012. In 2013, his work on Semantic Interaction was awarded the IEEE VGTC VPG Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the Virginia Tech Computer Science Best Dissertation Award.

    endert@gatech.edu

    404-385-4477

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
    Additional Research:

    Visual Analytics


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    Ellen Zegura

    Ellen Zegura

    Ellen Zegura

    Professor

    Ellen Zegura, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications at the School of Computer Science, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Zegura’s research concerns the development of wide-area (Internet) networking services and mobile wireless networking.  Wide-area services are utilized by applications that are distributed across multiple administrative domains (e.g., web, file sharing, multi-media distribution). Her focus is on services implemented both at the network layer, as part of network infrastructure, and at the application layer.  In the context of mobile wireless networking, she is interested in challenged environments where traditional ad-hoc and infrastructure-based networking approaches fail. These environments have been termed Disruption Tolerant Networks.  She received a Bachelor's in Computer Science (1987) and Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (1987), a Master's in Computer Science (1990) and the D.Sc. in Computer Science (1993) all from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1993, she has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech. She was an Assistant Dean in charge of Space and Facilities Planning from Fall 2000 to January 2003. She served as Interim Dean of the College for six months in 2002. She was Associate Dean responsible for Research and Graduate Programs from 2003-2005, and served as the first Chair of the School of Computer Science from 2005-2012.  Zegura is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.

    ewz@cc.gatech.edu

    404.894.1403

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
    Additional Research:
    Mobile & Wireless Communications; Software & Applications; Computer Networking

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