Two faculty members in the Department of Computer Science will receive 2023 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards. Yinzhi Cao and Michael Dinitz are among the thirty-seven early-career faculty members selected across the nine academic divisions of Johns Hopkins University.
The 2023 honorees—selected on the basis of their accomplishments to date, creativity and originality, and academic impact—will each receive a $75,000 grant to support their work over the next year. They also will have the opportunity to participate in mentoring sessions and events designed to connect these colleagues at similar stages in their careers.
The Catalyst Awards program was launched in early 2015, as was the Discovery Awards program for interdivisional collaborations. Together the two programs represent a $45 million university commitment to faculty-led research by university leadership along with the deans and directors of JHU’s divisions.
Cao’s research focuses on the security and privacy of web, network, and mobile systems. His current projects involve analyzing the security vulnerability of web applications and assessing the security, privacy, and fairness of machine learning systems.
Dinitz’s work ranges from purely theoretical computer science to applications of theory, with a focus on computer networking and distributed systems as well as applications in artificial intelligence and machine learning. His more practical research includes data center topology design, resilient routing in overlay networks, fast optimization algorithms using machine-learned advice, and other optimization problems motivated by practice.
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