Systems Engineering and Operations Research

George Mason students won best paper in four of the five tracks at the 9th Annual Andrew P. Sage Memorial Design Competition.

A team of Systems Engineering and Operations Research is improving health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A systems engineering team won first place in the George Mason Patriot Pitch Social Impact Track and won the People’s Choice Award, along with first place in the U.S. Military Academy System Engineering Design Competition.

George Mason University hosted one of the field's premier systems engineering conferences at Fuse in April.

Graduate students launched George Mason University’s INFORMS student chapter in January 2026 to optimize connection and professional development for an interdisciplinary community of master’s and PhD students.

Research Interests: Simulation of rare events using AI, ML, and digital twins

Research Interests: Space systems engineering, many objective evolutionary algorithms, sensitivity analyses, and model diagnostics

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning (computer vision), probabilistic modeling, stochastic processes, risk modeling, decision-making under uncertainty

Research Interests: Modeling and simulation, optimization, AI/ML

Research Interests: Generative models for transportation application, security of machine learning (ML) models