IST News
June 10, 2025Dean Ken Ball recognized outstanding faculty and staff at the Annual Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony on April 1, 2025. Individuals were honored for their excellent contributions to teaching, research, and service.
May 23, 2025George Mason's AI4Defense program is an innovative incubator that empowers high school and early undergraduate students to explore artificial intelligence (AI) applications in national defense.
May 15, 2025Kun Sun, professor in the Department Information Sciences and Technology, will work with local company CodeLock on software security, supported by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative's Academic Support for Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship and Next-Gen Development (ASCEND) Fund.
May 7, 2025Two new concentrations to prepare students for workforce demands.
May 2, 2025Monika Blakely has lived all over the world, but her time at George Mason University has been particularly special.
April 10, 2025George Mason students developed a browser-based tool aimed at improving how users interpret and engage with online health information at a recent hackathon.
March 15, 2025New IST faculty member Sanchari Das is a distinguished cybersecurity expert, helping people understand the social elements of protecting their data.
March 3, 2025George Mason professor Sungsoo Ray Hong has always been a huge fan of cartoons, comics, and animations. By combining his passion with his research area of human-computer interaction, he has created a new tool for cartoonists, ShadowMagic. Hong, his colleague Yotam Gingold, and their PhD students published a paper, “ShadowMagic: Designing Human-AI Collaborative Support for Comic Professionals’ Shadowing,” elucidating the need for the tool, which aims to boost product quality and designer productivity through study-informed human-AI interaction.
February 6, 2025George Mason’s EAGLE program, funded by a $3.9 million NSF grant, will support cybersecurity students aiming to work for U.S. government agencies after graduation. The program offers substantial financial support, expert guidance, and hands-on experience through internships.
January 8, 2025From degrees in engineering and geoinformation science to her current role as a director in AI and machine learning, Adjunct Professor Aisha Behr brings a wealth of industry experience to the classroom, inspiring students with real-world knowledge and innovative teaching methods.
November 20, 2024Xiaonan Guo is mentioned as a co-author in an award-winning study.
November 20, 2024Dark Reading: AI About-Face: ‘Mantis’ Turns LLM Attackers into Prey Evgenios Kornaropoulos, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science is quoted.