Fellowships

PhD student Zhenyi Huang will embark on his COVES Fellowship this summer, applying his statistics expertise to help foster relationships between engineering and the Virginia state government.

Ioanna Karantaidou, a PhD student in George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing’s Computer Science Department, has won a one-year fellowship from Protocol Labs, where she will work on their Fielcoin project, investigating innovations in cloud storage.

Xu Han, a PhD student in Information Science and Technology, has won a Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science (COVES) Fellowship.

Bioengineering undergrad Medhini Sosale wins one of the highest rewards—the Goldwater Scholarship—in the U.S. for undergrad students interested in developing STEM research careers.

Ariela Sofer, interim divisional dean for engineering at the College of Engineering and Computing has been named a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) for "significant contributions to systems engineering education and advancing the recognition of systems engineering in academia."