Poorvi Vora

E-mail: poorvi@gwu.edu

Campus Location(s): Phillips 706

Office Hours: Tuesdays: 1-2 pm, 6-8:30 pm, Thursdays: 1:30-4 pm

Prof.Poorvi Vora is the best professors in her field of teaching and research. Professor Poorvi Vora receive the 2009 ACM Teacher of the Year Award at the Annual Department of Computer Science Honoring Our CS Graduates BBQ.

Major Research Interests:
Privacy, cryptology, electronic voting, watermarking and counterfeit deterrence, game theory,
image processing, information theory and coding

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering. North Carolina State University (1993)
Dissertation Title: Optimization Criteria and Numerical Analysis in the Design of Colour
Scanning Filters
Dissertation Adviser: H. Joel Trussell
M.S., Mathematics. Cornell University (1990)
M.S., Electrical Engineering. North Carolina State University (1988)
Thesis Topic: Bounds on the Improvement of Restoration Using Spatial a priori Information
Thesis Adviser: H. Joel Trussell
B. Tech., Electrical Engineering. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1986)

Classes Taught

 At GW
1. CSCI 283, Computer Security Systems I
2. CSCI 284, Cryptography
3. CSCI 381, Advanced Cryptography
4. CSCI 224, Advanced Discrete Structures. Co-located with CSCI 124.
5. CSCI 162, Cryptography. Co-located with CSCI 284.
6. CSCI 172, Computer Security. Co-located with CSCI 283.
7. CSCI 124, Discrete Structures II. Co-located with CSCI 224.

Selected Publications

1. Ben Hosp, Poorvi L. Vora, An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems , Mathematical and Computer Modelling. Special issue on: Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications, Vol. 48, nos.9-10, pp. 1628-1645, Nov 2008.
2. Poorvi L. Vora, An Information-Theoretic Approach to Inference Attacks on Random Data Perturbation and a Related Privacy Measure , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp 2971-2977, August 2007.
3. Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi Vora, The Privacy Cost of the Second Chance Offer , WPES, 2005.
4. Poorvi L. Vora, H. Joel Trussell, Measure of goodness of a set of color scanning filters. , Journal of the Optical Society of America-A, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1499-1508, July 1993.