Computer Science at George Washington University

26 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at George Washington University.

Faculty

• Robert Pless, Arnold C. Meltzer Endowed Professor h-index 40
  Notable: “Integrated coverage and connectivity configuration in wireless sensor networks” (2003) · 1,269 citations
• David Broniatowski, Professor (Courtesy Appointment) h-index 35
  Notable: “Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate” (2018) · 1,176 citations
• Timothy Wood, Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “The feasibility of launching and detecting jamming attacks in wireless networks” (2005) · 1,313 citations
• Taeyoung Lee, Professor (Courtesy Appointment) h-index 33
  Notable: “Geometric tracking control of a quadrotor UAV on SE(3)” (2010) · 1,315 citations
• Howie Huang, Professor (Courtesy Appointment) h-index 27
  Notable: “Computational modeling of cardiac hemodynamics: Current status and future outlook” (2015) · 196 citations
• Jie Zhou, Assistant Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “Multigranulation rough-fuzzy clustering based on shadowed sets” (2018) · 91 citations
• Peng Wei, Associate Professor (Courtesy Appointment) h-index 27
  Notable: “eVTOL Arrival Sequencing and Scheduling for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility” (2018) · 88 citations
• James Hahn, Professor h-index 26
  Notable: “Realistic animation of rigid bodies” (1988) · 353 citations
• Rebecca Hwa, Professor and Department Chair h-index 25
  Notable: “Just how mad are you? finding strong and weak opinion clauses” (2004) · 435 citations
• Adam J. Aviv, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Primarily in the area of computer security/cybersecurity, privacy, and usable security. I am the lead for the George Washington University/Usable Security and Privacy Lab (gwusec). If you are interested in joining the lab or collaborating
  Notable: “Smudge attacks on smartphone touch screens” (2010) · 602 citations
• Sibin Mohan, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Notable: “Securing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication Platforms” (2020) · 251 citations
• Rahul Simha, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “A microeconomic approach to optimal resource allocation in distributed computer systems” (1989) · 275 citations
• Hyeong-Ah Choi, Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “On double-link failure recovery in WDM optical networks” (2003) · 149 citations
• Chung Hyuk Park, Associate Professor (Courtesy Appointment) h-index 19
  Notable: “Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Conversation with Transformer-Based Crossmodality Fusion” (2021) · 101 citations
• Arkady Yerukhimovich, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “SoK: Cryptographically Protected Database Search” (2017) · 112 citations
• Abdou Youssef, Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Technical Aspects of the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions” (2003) · 103 citations
• Ayah Zirikly, Assistant Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Expert, Crowdsourced, and Machine Assessment of Suicide Risk via Online Postings” (2018) · 209 citations
• Bhagirath Narahari, Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Strong minimum energy topology in wireless sensor networks: np-completeness and heuristics” (2003) · 169 citations
• Gabriel Parmer, Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Sledge” (2020) · 97 citations
• Zoe Szajnfarber, Professor (Courtesy Appointment) h-index 13
  Notable: “Qualitative methods for engineering systems: Why we need them and how to use them” (2017) · 64 citations
• Poorvi Vora, Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter-Verifiable Optical- Scan Voting” (2008) · 215 citations
• Xiaodong Qu, Assistant Professor of Practice h-index 8
  Notable: “Static and dynamic analyses of isogeometric curvilinearly stiffened plates” (2017) · 48 citations
• Kinga Dobolyi, Associate Professor of Practice h-index 6
  Notable: “Changing Java's Semantics for Handling Null Pointer Exceptions” (2008) · 37 citations
• James R. Taylor, Associate Professor of Practice h-index 2
  Notable: “Polyfluorobicyclo[2,2,1]heptanes. Part V. Syntheses using bridgehead carbanions generated by removal of bridgehead hydrogen with aqueous bases” (1972) · 12 citations
• Joe Goldfrank, Assistant Professor of Practice
• Shi Feng, Assistant Professor
  Notable: “Covert Influence Between Language Models” (2026)

Courses

• Computer Science Orientation CSCI 1010
• Introduction to Programming with Java CSCI 1011
• Introduction to Programming with Python CSCI 1012
• Computational Problem-Solving Across Disciplines CSCI 1013
• Applications Software CSCI 1020
• Introduction to Computers and the Internet CSCI 1021
• Introduction to Internet Technology CSCI 1022
• Introduction to Web Software Development CSCI 1023
• Variable Topics CSCI 1099
• Introduction to Software Development CSCI 1111
• Algorithms and Data Structures CSCI 1112
• Introduction to C Programming CSCI 1121
• Introduction to Programming with C CSCI 1131
• Data Structures and Software Design CSCI 1132
• Discrete Structures I CSCI 1311
• Software Engineering CSCI 2113
• Computing and the World CSCI 2211
• Discrete Structures II CSCI 2312
• Systems Programming CSCI 2410
• Database Systems and Team Projects CSCI 2441
• Introduction to Computer Systems CSCI 2460
• Computer Architecture I CSCI 2461
• Ethical Issues in Computing CSCI 2501
• Algorithms CSCI 3212
• Foundations of Computing CSCI 3313
• Probability for Computer Science CSCI 3362
• Computer Architecture and Organization CSCI 3401
• Operating Systems CSCI 3411
• Introduction to Blockchain Technology and Applications CSCI 3414
• Computer Architecture II CSCI 3462
• Information Ethics and Policy CSCI 3532
• Concepts and Applications of Computer Graphics CSCI 3551
• Design of Computer Animation I CSCI 3552
• Introduction to Bioinformatics CSCI 3571
• Special Topics in Computer Science CSCI 3907
• Research CSCI 3908
• + 4 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.