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Poorvi Vora Associate Professor Department of Computer Science The George Washington University Send mail to poorvi at the following address: gwu dot edu
On sabbatical till September 2012 at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-Bombay.
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Current Research Interests: Privacy, Cryptology, Electronic Voting, Information Theory and Coding, Game Theory. My research by application area: Voting, Privacy, Cryptanalysis Another view of some of my research: Applications of information theory |
| Past Research Interests: Color Imaging, Image Processing (image restoration, watermarking, counterfeit deterrence) |
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Current Students: current NSF-funded undergraduates: Tyler Kaczmarek, John Wittrock Graduated Research Students: Yu-An Sun (D. Sc. 2009, now at Xerox Research) Stefan Popoveniuc (Ph.D. 2009, now at Amazon) Darakhshan Mir (M.S., 2007, now in the doctoral program at Rutgers) Jacob Alperin-Sheriff (B.S., 2010 now in the doctoral program at Georgia Tech.) Ben Hosp (Ph.D., 2010) Kerry McKay (D. Sc., 2011, now at MITRE) Alex Florescu (M. S., 2011, now at Goldman-Sachs) Jan Rubio (B. S., 2011, now at oPower) |
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Post-Docs: Mridul Nandi (2009-2010; now at IISC., Kolkata) Filip Zagórski (2010-2011; now at Wroclaw University of Technology) |
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My Education: B. Tech (EE), IIT Bombay, 1986; M.S. (EE), North Carolina State Univ. (NCSU), 1988; M.S. (Math.), Cornell, 1990; Ph.D. (EE) NCSU, 1993. |
| I have translated some of the poetry of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz from the Urdu; the translations are here. The official Faiz site, maintained by his family, is here. |
Last update: 17:13:10, Saturday, 05 May, 2012 local time.