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Department of Statistics Annual Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition featured in Fairfax Times.

New research from George Mason University is making footwear safer in slippery winter conditions.

Professor Peggy Brouse recently earned the prestigious statewide Outstanding Cybersecurity Educator Award. The award recognizes excellence in cybersecurity education and was presented at the annual Commonwealth Cyber Fusion event in Lexington, Virginia, hosted by the Virginia Military Institute. 

By developing a new machine learning algorithm to apply variational inference to spatial statistics, Jin Hyung Lee has significantly improved high-dimensional data analysis efficiency and accuracy. The PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics received the 2024 Korean International Statistical Society Outstanding Student Paper Award for his work.

Mechanical engineering’s Jeffrey Moran continues to prepare an experiment to be carried out on the International Space Station (ISS). Via a powerful microscope in microgravity, the team plans to observe how common atmospheric aerosols move across a temperature gradient, information which would inform climate predictions, geoengineering proposals, and even HVAC applications.

George Mason professor Sungsoo Ray Hong has always been a huge fan of cartoons, comics, and animations. By combining his passion with his research area of human-computer interaction, he has created a new tool for cartoonists, ShadowMagic.

Biomedical engineering has been an up-and-coming career field for years, but graduating and getting that first job can feel like scaling a cliff. At George Mason’s bioengineering department, however, the faculty, staff, and fellow students collaborate to rig their future colleagues a safety net.

Assistant Professor Zhuangdi Zhu is collaborating with the University of Virginia’s Wajih Ul Hassan to develop scalable host-based intrusion detection systems using federated learning, enhancing cybersecurity while ensuring data privacy.

A multidisciplinary team of George Mason researchers has secured a $1.7 million grant from the Army Research Lab to develop an AI framework for coordinating teams of autonomous robots in complex and uncertain environments.

George Mason students, funded by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, are developing innovative VR tools and applications at Great Victory Legends, a startup founded by Associate Professor Craig Yu, gaining invaluable experience for future tech careers.

The College of Engineering and Computing celebrates mechanical engineering student Peter Pringhayune and alum Jaden Newman’s acceptance into the prestigious Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) for summer 2025.

George Mason researcher Weiwen Jiang received a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his work in quantum computing.