College of Engineering and Computing

A Mason PhD candidate’s cybersecurity business won $50,000 from Pharell Williams’ Black Ambition prize contest. The contest being hosted in her hometown “put the icing on the cake.” 

Research Interests: Systems Engineering Theory and Engineering Design Decision Making. 

Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI

Research Interests: Security assessment of wireless network protocols, threat modeling and counter-mechanism design, cross-technology spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. 

Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Research Interests: Mechanics and material behavior.

Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation

Research Interests: Privacy, Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Research interests: Machine learning and statistical modeling, explainable AI, model fairness and robustness, data exploration, and active learning.

George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing partnered with the College of Science to provide weekends filled with fun activities for students – rooted in STEM learning.