College of Engineering and Computing

Research Interests: Data science for social good, which aims to solve social problems through data-driven approaches.

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Urban Computing, Intelligent Transportation, Spatial-Temporal Data Mining and Prediction, Online Misinformation Mining and Detection

Research Interests: Computer architecture support for security, malware detection, adversarial machine learning, and side channel attacks

Research Interests: Local Search, Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Software Testing

With a twist or shake of your wrist, your smartphone can interpret motion to take a picture, turn on a light, and more. Last year, George Mason University computer science professors Parth Pathak and Huzefa Rangwala were brainstorming how similar technology could help society in even greater ways. Their idea? To automatically translate sign language into text or speech.

Tinfoil and hot glue aren’t what most people would use to waterproof their houses, but for the middle school to high school-aged campers participating in the Volgenau School of Engineering’s STEM Summer Camps, these are some of the tools they used to learn the basics of civil engineering.