{"595394":{"#nid":"595394","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Five New Professors Join the School of Computer Science ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s School of Computer Science (CS) welcomes five new faculty members this year. Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJacob Abernethy\u003C\/strong\u003E arrived for the fall semester. Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ect.bell-labs.com\/who\/kolesnikov\/Bio.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVladimir Kolesnikov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cis.upenn.edu\/~jamiemor\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cs.uwaterloo.ca\/~x4chu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E will be joining in the spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our new faculty bring a breadth of strengths that help us process, secure, and understand data, from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Emachine learning\u003C\/a\u003E to cryptography to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/content\/databases\u0022\u003Edatabases\u003C\/a\u003E to high-performance computing,\u0026rdquo; CS Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/lance-fortnow\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;They cement our position as one of the top departments that power the future of computation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeet the newest Yellow Jackets:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVivek Sarkar comes on as a distinguished chair in Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications. His research focuses on almost every influential aspect of parallel software today, including programming languages, program analysis, compiler optimizations, and runtime systems for diverse parallel platforms. He joins us from Rice University and was an IBM Senior Manager of Programming Technologies prior to that. Sarkar has been serving as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.energy.gov\/ascr\/ascac\/\u0022\u003EAdvanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee\u003C\/a\u003E (ASCAC) since 2009 and has been on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cra.org\/\u0022\u003ECRA\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s Board of Directors since 2015. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Jacob (Jake) Abernethy\u0026nbsp;studies machine learning and how it connects to optimization, economics, and statistics. Coming to us from the University of Michigan, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and economics, from algorithmic game theory to privacy. She will arrive from a postdoctoral fellowship at the Warren Center in Computer Science and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVladimir Kolesnikov studies cryptography. Prior to joining Tech, he has been a security researcher at Bell Labs. He received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EXu Chu joins us as an assistant professor right out of the Ph.D. program at the University of Waterloo. He\u0026rsquo;s interested in all forms of data management, from information extraction to data matching.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Meet the newest SCS faculty."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2017-08-31 20:45:44","changed_gmt":"2017-10-12 17:51:09","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595396":{"id":"595396","type":"image","title":"Five New Professors Join the School of Computer Science","body":null,"created":"1504213687","gmt_created":"2017-08-31 21:08:07","changed":"1504213687","gmt_changed":"2017-08-31 21:08:07","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226909","name":"newscsprofs.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/newscsprofs.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/newscsprofs.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":311122,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/newscsprofs.jpg?itok=nxAPk-tr"}}},"media_ids":["595396"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer I\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}