Current and Former Students
Burger has taught and mentored many students, who have gone on to successful careers at such places as Microsoft, Google, Tesla, AT&T, and LinkedIn.
As part of their studies, some also worked under the Communications Security Lab (CSL), which conducts research in such areas as:
- Secure multimedia communications.
- Secure computing.
- Cyber threat intelligence.
- Networking policy.
- Internet governance.
The CSL is the successor to the Georgetown Center for Secure Communications and the NSF Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S²ERC) at Georgetown and is now folded into the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.
Current Students (degree pursued)
- Erika Heeren (Ph.D., Public Policy)
- Aniruddha Hore (MS, CS '24)
- Sahil Bhola (MS, CS ’25)
- Harditya Sarvaiya (MS, CS '25)
- Dhairya Parikh (MS, ECE '25)
Former Students (degree, first job)
* Thesis work conducted at the CSL.
- Rishabh Rastogi (MEng CS ’23; Tessla)
- Madhuvanti Muralikrishnan (MEng CS ’22; OMP)
- Erika Heeren (Georgetown MA CCT ’23; Virginia Tech Ph.D. and Rutgers J.D. programs)
- Michael Bartholic (Georgetown BSCS ’23; IAM Robotics)
- Timothy Tan (Georgetown BSCS ’23; U.S. Army)
- Franco Forti (MBA ’22; IBM)
- Nathaniel Winters (STIA ’22; Deloitte)
- * Tucker Moore (MSCS ’21; Microsoft)
- Tavish Vaidya (Ph.D. CS ’19; Google)
- David Wilke (BSCS ’19; Lockheed Martin)
- Jackson Irby (BSCS ’19; Sila Solutions Group)
- Henry Cho (BSCS ’19)
- Jianan Su (MSCS ’18; Georgetown (Research Fellow))
- * Garrett Hinck (STIA ’18; Carnegie Institution)
- * Katherine Schmidt (STIA ’18; NATO)
- Julia Kieserman (BSCS ’18; AT&T)
- Matthew Chiang (BSCS ’18; Appian)
- Nivu Jejurikar (STIA ’18; Deloitte)
- James Pavur (STIA ’17; Rhodes Scholar: Oxford Cybersecurity Ph.D.)
- Julian Lee (MSCS ’17; Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division)
- Rachel Wishnie-Edwards (BS Mathematics ’17; MediaMath)
- Russell Lange (MSB BBA ’17; Citi)
- Marika Van Laan (MA SSP ’17; fiserv)
- Trent Stohrer (PBCS ’16; MSCS program University of North Carolina)
- Kevin Carter (STIA SFS ’16; What’s Mapnin’)
- * Elchin Asgarli (Ph.D. CS ABD; Google)
- Andrew Tabas (BSFS IPOL ’16; Hillary for America)
- 2019: Jennah Haque (MIT SB VI-14 ’21; Bloomberg News)
- 2019: Bhavik Nagda (MIT SB VI-3 ’21; MIT SMCS program)
- 2017: Charles Ezeugwu (MIT II ’19; Raytheon)
- 2017: Pegah Moradi (Cornell BS Politics & Technology ’19; Cornell Information Science Ph.D. program)
- 2017: Saroj Chintakrindi (Berkeley BSCS ’20)
- 2016: Robert Ramírez (MIT SM TPP ’17; Secom Co, Ltd.)
- 2015: Maria Stoica (MIT VI-3 ’17 (Harvard BSCS ’17); Goldman Sachs)
- 2014: Kevin Zhu (UCLA BSCS ’17; LinkedIn)