CEC faculty research

George Mason University faculty member, Ningshi Yao, received a $750k grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to establish a hands-on mechatronics training program aimed at building the next generation of high-tech engineering technologists.

George Mason University's Department of Statistics stands at the forefront of innovation, including in the realm of design of experiments (DoE) .This pivotal field ensuries that data collection methods are optimized to solve specific problems, making unbiased comparisons, and detecting treatment differences more effectively.

Professor Lizhi Wang, a new faculty member with a joint appointment in George Mason University’s Department of Bioengineering and Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research, has brought his systems approach to optimizing agriculture, livestock farming, and now human health.

Researchers at George Mason University will collaborate on an NSF planning grant to develop resilience solutions and technologies. They will work with Indigenous communities, industry partners, government agencies, and six academic institutions.

George Mason University continues to lead the way in the world of AI education, thanks to a new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to Aditya Johri, professor of Information Sciences and Technology, and Lawrence Cranberg, endowed research fellow at the Long Nguyen and Kimmy Duong School of Computing.

The Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research welcomes Guiping Hu as the new department chair. Hu is ready to take the department to new heights and achieve its full potential.

Understanding and treating complex eye movement disorders like strabismus has long been a challenge for clinicians. Now, researchers at George Mason University are pioneering a new approach using robotics and artificial intelligence to engineer a better future for vision care.

George Mason University’s civil engineers are assessing the climate change challenges facing some of the world’s highest mountain ranges, creating better ways to measure the melting ice in high elevations where temperatures are rising faster than average and putting pressure on the livelihoods of fragile cultures and ecologies.

Antonios Anastasopoulos, an expert in natural language processing, received a $600,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to address challenges with large language models. 

Center for Advancing Systems Science and Bioengineering Innovation (CASSBI) refreshed its mission and zeroed in more tightly on its translational research. The new vision of CASSBI is advancing system science and integrating innovation with medical technologies to benefit humanity.