As the 2024 Fall semester begins to kick off this month. we at the School of Computing would like to introduce four new faculty members joining us this semester!Dr. Zhen Xiang joins as Assistant Professor. He received his PhD from Pennsylvania State University in 2022 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2022 to 2024. His research interests include trustworthy machine learning, AI security, large language models and agents, and statistical signal processing. He serves on the program committees for multiple machine-learning and security conferences and is an associated editor of IEEE TCSVT. Dr. Zichen Gui will be joining later in semester. Dr. Gui finished his PhD from University of Bristol, UK in 2022, and for the past 2 years, has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. His research interests include applied cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, distributed systems, cryptanalysis, and searchable encryption, and his work in these areas has been strongly published in top security conferences. Dr. Nazish Tahir graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Georgia in 2024. She will be joining as lecturer. Her research focuses on collaborative control in multi-robot systems and developing intelligent algorithms for resource optimization in networked robotics. Nazish has authored numerous papers in prestigious conferences and journals, earning recognition with several awards, including the UGA Spark Award, the NSF Student Travel Grant, and the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 2023. Mr. Jack Bass has just finished his Master's in Computer Science at UGA under the supervision of Dr. Kyu Lee and Dr. Le Guan and joins as a lecturer. Jack is strongly interested in undergraduate computer science education and has taught introductory programming sections while he was an MS student. Jack also have had some professional experience in DevOps for the Department of Defense. Dr. Gagan Agrawal, Director of School of Computing, states "these talented computer scientists will be adding significantly to our research and teaching capacity and I am delighted to welcome them."
