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Congratulations to Roxana Geambasu for winning a highly coveted Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship!! This is a very high honor! Roxana is a Columbia University professor and past UW CSE PhD student. To quote from the Microsoft web page: “Each year since 2005, Microsoft Research has recognized innovative, promising new faculty members from a number of research institutions to join the ranks of Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows.” And: “We are pleased to announce the 2014 Faculty Fellows, seven young professors from the following five regions: Latin America and the Caribbean; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the United States and Canada; Australia and New Zealand; and Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.” Congratulations Roxana!

Congratulations to Franzi, Karl, and Tammy for walking today as part of your PhD graduations! We are very proud of all the UW CSE graduates!

Congratulations Prof. Dr. Tamara Denning for a very successful final defense!

Congratulations Prof. Dr. Franzi Roesner for a very successful final defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Miro Enev for a very successful final defense!

Congratulations to Prof. Tamara Denning! Prof. Denning will be joining the University of Utah’s School of Computing as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations to the University of Utah too, which is very fortunate to be getting Prof. Denning! Prof. Denning has done some amazing and visionary work in the field of computer security and human-computer interaction. She is scheduled to receive her PhD from the University of Washington in June.

We are very excited to say that Franzi Roesner has accepted a tenure-track faculty position within the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department! UW was very fortunate to get Prof. Roesner, as she had numerous other very attractive offers. Prof. Roesner will bring huge strengths and a new, permanent perspective to the UW CSE computer security and privacy efforts. We are all very excited about this! And congratulations to Prof. Roesner too!

Alisha Saxena, a senior from Interlake High School, was named the First Runner-Up in the 2014 Central Sound Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Alisha’s project, “Analyzing and Preventing Quick Response Code Based Malware and Phishing Attacks for Smartphones,” was conducted in UW CSE’s Security and Privacy Research Laboratory, where she has been mentored by Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner and professor Yoshi Kohno.

In addition to being named First Runner-Up, Alisha also won first place in the Computer Science category and the Intel Excellence in Computer Science award. We reported in December on Alisha’s recognition as a Winner in the 2014 National NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.

Alisha and the Grand Champion – Meera Srinivasan, a junior at Interlake High School – will receive an all-expense-paid trip to represent the Central Puget Sound region at the 2014 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Los Angeles this May.

Congratulations, Alisha!

Congratulations to Columbia University professor (and UW CSE PhD alum) Roxana Geambasu for winning the prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award! To quote the NSF web page, the CAREER award is “the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.” Congratulations Roxana!

UW CSE PhD student Franzi Roesner gave a great talk today at Financial Crypto 2014. The talk focused on her work analyzing the usage of Snapchat. (More info in her paper, http://www.franziroesner.com/pdf/snapchat-FC2014.pdf.)