July 20, 2026Computer Science Assistant Professor Ziyu Yao received an NSF CAREER award for $674,100 to peel the layers back on AI, developing new methods for understanding the internal mechanisms of LLMs.
July 13, 2026George Mason University researchers are developing smart swarm technologies that will allow a small number of human operators to effectively coordinate and control hundreds of autonomous robots for defense missions while using a video game to test and improve swarm strategies.
June 8, 2026PhD student Shiwei Hong developed a collaborative multi-agent AI system that mimics a comedy writers’ room, demonstrating that discussion and feedback among agents improve the quality of machine-generated humor.
June 2, 2026Aayush Yadav co-authored a paper that received a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the industry’s premier conferences in the security field.
April 6, 2026A CEC professor's longstanding relationship with NVIDIA is bringing AI leaps to campus.
February 11, 2026At the end of January, three George Mason University students presented their research at the Network for Undergraduate Research in Virginia (NURVa) Undergraduate Research Showcase at the Capitol in Richmond. Now in its second year, the event gives undergraduates from each of NURVa’s 13 member universities an opportunity to present their research to state legislators and fellow researchers alike. Students worked with faculty through George Mason’s Office of Student Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR) to refine their work and apply to the selective event.
January 12, 2026A study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences validates a decades-old hypothesis by Nobel laureate Francis Crick, with key computational work performed by researchers at George Mason University.
October 20, 2025George Mason faculty and students identified an important vulnerability in anonymization of health data. They recently presented a paper on the findings at one of the world's most prestigious computer security conferences.
October 14, 2025George Mason has a one-of-a-kind off-road test bed to put autonomous vehicles through their paces.
September 23, 2025Computer science and education are coming together to develop a virtual classroom for math education.
