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The 2025--26 Distinguished Lecture Series brings world leaders in computing to George Mason, with broad, public-friendly talks on robotics, privacy, AI security, and the future of AI. Featured speakers include Kostas Daniilidis (Oct 3, Fri), Lorrie Faith Cranor (Oct 24, Fri), Vitaly Shmatikov (Nov 4, Fri), and Moshe Vardi (Dec 5, Fri). See poster for details.
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CS faculty Qiang Zeng and PhD students Xiang Li recently presented their work OneFlip at USENIX Security ’25, a premiere conference on security. OneFlip introduces a novel and interesting attack against AI systems: by flipping just a single bit among billions of weight bits, it can inject a backdoor into the model. Unlike traditional AI attacks that require modifying training data, OneFlip targets the system during the inference stage, making it extremely stealthy and difficult to detect.
5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Professor Jessica Lin has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2025), which will be held in Konstanz, Germany. Her talk, titled "From Repetition to Insight: Shaping a More Interpretable Future through Time Series Motif Discovery," explores the challenges and recent advances in unsupervised pattern discovery within time series data.
7 months, 1 week ago
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A research team headed by CS faculty Qiang Zeng and Lannan Luo has discovered a critical vulnerability in Apple’s Find My network. This attack, called nRootTag, allows an attacker to turn any Bluetooth device into an AirTag-like tracker, leveraging Apple’s 1.5-billion-device network at no cost.
9 months ago
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Professor Carlotta Domeniconi in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University is using artificial intelligence (AI) to combat human smuggling networks. She is the principal investigator (PI) on a groundbreaking project aimed at understanding and modeling human smuggling networks.
