{"610254":{"#nid":"610254","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Welcomes Five New Assistant Professors   ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive new tenure-track faculty have joined the School of Computer Science. The assistant professors\u0026rsquo; research focuses on some of the fastest growing and most promising computing fields, from cybersecurity to databases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Devecsery\u003C\/strong\u003E joined the school this fall semester. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/parsa.epfl.ch\/~daglis\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandros Daglis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/helloqirun.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQirun Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E arrive in the spring semester. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~pearce\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E will start next fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With other recent hires, we now have the largest and strongest collection of young professors in the school\u0026rsquo;s history, establishing a core to lead the future of computer science not just at Georgia Tech but in the world at large,\u0026rdquo; said Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/lance-fortnow\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeet our newest hires:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj comes on as the inaugural holder of the\u0026nbsp;Barry Dickman Term Professorship, a two-year appointment. He recently received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon\u0026rsquo;s School of Computer Science. Arulraj studies data analytics, main memory systems, and machine learning. He is developing new database management systems that leverage the characteristics of emergent hardware technologies to meet the requirements of modern data-intensive applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDaglis will be arriving from \u0026Eacute;cole Polytechnique F\u0026eacute;d\u0026eacute;rale de Lausanne, where he has been studying computer architecture. He is interested in rack-scale computing and network-compute integration to target the most challenging communication-intensive services in datacenter environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDevecsery joins us from University of Michigan, where he earned his Ph.D. in computer science engineering last October. His research focuses on software systems and program analysis with the goal of creating systems and tools that enable efficient monitoring and understanding of complex system behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPearce is a computer security Ph.D. student at University of California, Berkeley. His emphasis is network security and measurement on politically and economically motivated attacks, such as censorship, cybercrime, and advanced persistent threats. He has built Internet-scale measurement platforms and designed new empirical methods aimed at discovering complex and unseen adversarial behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang will be coming from the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Davis, where he is a postdoctoral fellow. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013 with a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering. Programming languages and software engineering are his research areas, with a particular interest in improving software reliability and security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"These new professors study systems, databases, cybersecurity, programming languages, and architecture."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-08-23 15:43:05","changed_gmt":"2018-08-24 13:31:19","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"610255":{"id":"610255","type":"image","title":"New SCS 2018","body":null,"created":"1535041344","gmt_created":"2018-08-23 16:22:24","changed":"1535041344","gmt_changed":"2018-08-23 16:22:24","alt":"New SCS professors","file":{"fid":"232375","name":"SCSNew2018.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SCSNew2018.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SCSNew2018.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":219222,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/SCSNew2018.jpg?itok=pMjwBU1c"}}},"media_ids":["610255"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Comminicatioms Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}