July 30, 2026George Mason University researchers are working with an innovative, electricity-free drinking water treatment system in Puerto Rico that could help small rural communities gain reliable access to safe water.
Research interests: cyber forensic, AI security, malware analysis, cryptocurrency security
Research Interests: Hydroclimatology, AI/ML applications, Water resources, Large-scale climate/weather data
Research Interests: Biomechanics, Human-centered design, Rehabilitation engineering, Neuromechanics, Motor control, Engineering education
Research Interests: UAS Integration into National Airspace and Aviation Systems, Autonomous Systems Engineering for Contested GPS-Denied Air and Maritime Environments, Engineering for Quantum and Next-Generation Sensing (PNT, SWaP for platform integration, vibration and thermal management), Unmanned Maritime Systems Design and Deployment Planning, Post-Conflict Economic Recovery through Applied Systems Engineering, Technology Workforce Development and Nascent Industry Development
Research Interests: Quantum system security, quantum computer architecture, and quantum machine learning
Research Interests: Novel semiconducting materials, devices, and architects, Semiconducting materials and devices for high-performance computing and sensing, Low-temperature novel transport phenomenal in semiconducting heterostructures
Research interests: computer science education, generative AI and large language models, human-computer interaction, affective computing
Research Interests: Multilingual Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Multimodal AI
July 20, 2026Computer Science Assistant Professor Ziyu Yao received an NSF CAREER award for $674,100 to peel the layers back on AI, developing new methods for understanding the internal mechanisms of LLMs.