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Poorvi Vora

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Assistant Professor

Phone:
E-mail: poorvi AT gwu DOT edu
Campus Location(s): Phillips 706
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 1-2 pm, 6-8:30 pm, Thursdays: 1:30-4 pm
Personal Home Page: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~poorvi/

Interests

Cryptology; Privacy; Game Theory and Computational Economics; Electronic Voting

Education

Ph.D., 1993, N.C. State

M.S. (Math.), 1990, Cornell

M.S. (EE), 1988, N.C. State

B. Tech, 1986, IIT Bombay

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.