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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.

  • 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)