College of Engineering and Computing News
- February 6, 2025George Mason’s EAGLE program, funded by a $3.9 million NSF grant, will support cybersecurity students aiming to work for U.S. government agencies after graduation. The program offers substantial financial support, expert guidance, and hands-on experience through internships.
- February 6, 2025George Mason researchers discovered that Apple's "Find My" service can be used for malicious purposes.
- February 5, 2025With the opening of the new Visualization and Virtual Reality Lab in Research Hall, George Mason has the opportunity to be part of this global movement and to be a leader in transdisciplinary research.
- February 5, 2025Lance Sherry is quoted in article about DCA air collision.
- February 5, 2025The Virginia county’s Department of Public Safety Communications and Emergency Management worked with George Mason University researchers to develop AI-enhanced video games for skills building for first responders.
- February 3, 2025George Mason University has the only electron-beam lithography capabilities in all of Northern Virginia, and faculty member Ethan Ahn is eager to help students and colleagues maximize opportunities in this field.
- January 29, 2025George Mason University researchers are using a $1.6 million grant to create DELTA-FORCE for the U.S. Army, improving the performance of military vehicles.
- January 28, 2025Mohamed Gebril is leading a project to enhance threat detection and cybersecurity response mechanisms using generative AI and large language models (LLMs). He aims to automate traditionally manual processes and develop novel methods to detect and mitigate prompt injection attacks, ultimately creating more effective threat detection systems.
- January 27, 2025Evgenios Kornaropoulos received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for $648,811 for work on privacy and data security under the title “Encrypted Systems with Fine-Grained Leakage.”
- January 27, 2025Students from George Mason University’s Competitive Cybersecurity (MCC) club have dominated in multiple national competitions. The team got 1st place in the 2024 VMI CyberFusion and 2nd place in the 2024 Spring National Cyber League. Next, the students will be competing in the inaugural DistrictCon Hacker Conference on February 21-22.
- January 22, 2025In the recently announced U.S. News & World Report rankings, the College of Engineering and Computing’s (CEC) online master’s programs rose.
- January 21, 2025On this episode of Access to Excellence, President Gregory Washington and Amarda Shehu discuss the research possibilities of AI and the role of higher education in AI training and development.