College of Engineering and Computing

George 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.

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Educational Technology, Personalized Learning

Research Interests: Application security, penetration testing, threat modeling, risk assessment, secure architecture, and emerging areas like GenAI security

Research Interests: Solar Flare Prediction, machine learning, data mining, algorithm development, and information security

Research Interests: AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud-computing in agriculture and healthcare

Research Interests: Data Mining & Machine Learning in Computational Biology & Structural Bioinformatics

Research Interests: Women in Technology, Technology Education, Learning Analytics, Robotics, Cybersecurity

Research Interests: Cost Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling

Research Interests: Hardware Security, Memory Systems

Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.