October 22, 2026A computer program so adept at playing the game Go that it could beat the world's best players changed the career plans of computer science assistant professor Simin Chen.
October 15, 2026Imagine sitting at home, listening to music you enjoy, and a secret, malicious audio message—imperceptible to human ears—tells your home assistant to transfer money from your bank account. Computer science associate professor Qiang Zeng is developing a way to fight such silent attacks.
October 12, 2026A new project by statistics faculty member Brenda Betancourt examines how researchers assess and report the uncertainty that arises when medical records from different sources are linked.
October 2, 2026George Mason researcher Alex Brodsky is developing technology to help organizations make complex decisions about how to manage energy resources and evaluate potential investments.
October 1, 2026George Mason University researchers Holger Dannenberg and Giorgio Ascoli received a $2 million grant to take a new approach to understanding how aging changes the processes that allow us to form and retrieve memories.
September 23, 2026Parkeye is the new parking app developed by George Mason students that will predict parking availability, help users find lots that match their permits, and provide information about parking changes and closures.
September 21, 2026Cybersecurity researcher Kun Sun is helping prepare students and professionals to meet the challenge of evolving AI systems through a new National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded project focused on hands-on education in agentic AI security.
September 16, 2026Smriti Kansal Patwardhan is the college’s new director of undergraduate academic affairs, a recently created role that complements the college’s existing efforts in advising and recruitment. Her goal: helping students succeed and stay on track.
September 14, 2026An unlikely connection between financial market algorithms and human speech is the focus of a paper by George Mason University researchers that was accepted by one of the world’s most prestigious conferences for natural language processing.
September 11, 2026New College of Engineering and Computing Assistant Professor Taereem Kim thinks about how weather patterns separated by enormous distances can be connected and, more importantly, how those large-scale atmospheric connections translate into local effects.