School of Computer Science

Professor, Joint with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Co-Director of GTISC

Biography

Dr. Seymour (Sy) E. Goodman is Professor of International Affairs and Computing, jointly at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as Co-Director of both the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy (CISTP).

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Distinguished Professor

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Merrick L. Furst, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, runs commercialization and new venture creation and directs undergraduate programs and faculty development in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He recently founded the anti-botnet startup, Damballa, Inc. Prior to GT he was a professor at UC Berkeley, president of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and CEO of Essential Surfing Gear, Inc., which grew to 53 employees before being sold in 2000. He also helped establish a new high school in San Francisco.

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Director, Georgia Tech Information Security Center

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Dr. Ahamad's research interest focuses on the operating systems and middleware support that is essential for enabling emerging applications in wide-area distributed computing systems. Currently, he directs projects that focus on two specific problems in such environments: scalability and security. Scalable distributed services will be needed for supporting complex and information rich applications that will allow widely distributed users to interact with each other in real-time.

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Research Technologist II, TSO

Office:

KACB Office 3121

Email:

chadh [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Regents' Professor

Director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)

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Dr. Schwan is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also directs the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS), with co-directors from both GT's College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Schwan's M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he began his research in high performance computing, addressing operating and programming systems support for the Cm* multiprocessor.

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Associate Professor

Office:

KACB Office 2136

Email:

venkat [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Assistant Professor

Biography

Maria Florina Balcan received her doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum where her thesis received the Distinguished Dissertation Award. From October 2008 until July  2009, she was a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England. Her main research interests are Computational and Statistical  Machine  Learning, Computational Aspects in Economics and Game Theory, and Algorithms.

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Professor

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Dr. Sham Navathe has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech since 1990. His present research interests include database modeling, design and integration in the context of emerging applications - engineering design, biological (particularly human genome) databases, document and text databases, and collaborative applications. He is also interested in knowledge representation, data mining and knowledge discovery, tools and methodologies for information system design and visualization and user interfaces for better information retrieval.

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Professor

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Dr. Vazirani is a leading researcher in algorithm design, and more generally, in the theory of computing. Throughout his research career, he as demonstrated a consistent ability to obtain novel algorithmic ideas, frequently of substantial mathematical depth, which while solving the problem at hand, also lay the groundwork for future contributions by others.

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Associate Professor

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Dr. Santosh Pande's primary interest is in investigating static and dynamic compiler optimizations on evolving architectures. His research philosophy involves tackling practical problems which are relevant and important to the current issues in systems research and propose foundational solutions to them for good impact. Currently, his research is focussed on developing compiler optimizations for embedded and configurable systems to improve code size, efficiency and power consumption.

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