Prof. Shehu elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Professor Amarda Shehu to its College of Fellows.

Student-athlete Scott Morgan featured in The George

Mason CS student-athlete Scott Morgan is pursuing an accelerated master's degree in his extra year of athletic eligibility, which was granted to all athletes by the NCAA because of the pandemic.

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Nate Krasner recognized with an Honorable Mention for the CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Nate Krasner, a senior at the GMU CS department, has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2022.
 
Krasner was selected to participate in the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) site that GMU CS ran over the summer, which focused on Educational Data Mining. During a 12-week period, Krasner and Antonios Anastasopoulos (Assistant Professor in CS), along with Miriam Wanner (sophomore at UVA) worked closely on one of the most exciting and hard problems in Natural Language Processing, studying what influences cross-lingual transfer in multilingual models, and in particular what drives strong zero-shot performance. 

Prof. Shehu receives Outstanding Faculty Award by SCHEV

Professor Amarda Shehu was among the 12 Virginia educators honored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) as 2022 Outstanding Faculty Award recipients. Congratulations!