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Dr. Vora publishes article on India’s voting technology
Dr. Poorvi Vora recently authored the article “How the world's largest democracy casts its ballots’’ for The Conversation. It discusses India's voting technology.
Dr. Hahn receives SEAS Faculty Excellence Award
Congratulations to Dr. James Hahn, who has been named the 2019 SEAS Distinguished Researcher.
Samsara Counts’ research is featured in GW Today
CS senior Samsara Counts is the subject of the April 8 GW Today article “Computer Science for Social Good.” The article covers her effort to use deep learning methods to develop tools that help patients with eating disorders avoid triggering images online.
Hong Xuan wins 2019 GW Research Days competition award
At the 2019 GW Research Days competition, CS graduate student Hong Xuan won an AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Grant for his project, “Deep Randomized Ensembles for Image Retrieval.” Hong is advised by Dr. Robert Pless.

Dr. Vora testifies on electronic voting before Maryland House committee
On February 26, Dr. Poorvi Vora testified at a hearing on a bill limiting electronic delivery of absentee ballots in Maryland. The hearing was covered by WRC-NBC4, Washington, in the February 27 article “Maryland Legislators Consider Limiting Electronic Absentee Ballots."

CS TraffickCam research featured on Gizmodo
Dr. Robert Pless’ (CS) TraffickCam research project was featured in the February 6 Gizmodo article “Researchers Create Hotel-Recognition System to Aid Human Trafficking Investigations.”