Communications Security Lab

Main Research Thrusts

Secure multimedia communications, Secure computing, Cyber threat intelligence, Networking policy, Internet governance.

For current projects, see research

History

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 of Prof. Burger

Erika Heeren (PhD Public Policy)
Sahil Bhola (MS CS ‘25)
Aniruddha Hore (MEng CS ‘24)

Former Students of Prof. Burger (and first positions)

* Thesis work at CSL in bold

At Virginia Tech

Rishabh Rastogi (MEng CS ‘23; Tessla)
Madhuvanti Muralikrishnan (MEng CS ‘22; OMP)

At Georgetown

Erika Heeren (Georgetown MA CCT ‘23; Virginia Tech PhD and Rutgers JD programs)
Michael Bartholic (Georgetown BSCS ‘23; IAM Robotics)
Timothy Tan (Georgetown BSCS ‘23; US Army)
Franco Forti (MBA ‘22; IBM)
Nathaniel Winters (STIA ‘22; Deloitte)
Tucker Moore (MSCS ‘21; Microsoft)*
Tavish Vaidya (PhD 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 PhD)
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 (PhD CS ABD; Google)*
Andrew Tabas (BSFS IPOL ‘16; Hillary for America)

Visiting Students

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 PhD 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)