Our faculty and students are making headlines with novel approaches to cybersecurity. Read about their projects and discoveries.
January 10, 2023WRC NBC-4 Washington D.C. covers the Virginia Cyberslam hosted at George Mason University.
November 28, 2022A 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.”
October 18, 2022Assistant Professor Vijay Shah from the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing, teamed up with colleagues in Arlington, Virginia, to build drones that monitor and improve the safety of firefighters in action.
June 1, 2022In April, Mason professor Mohamed Gebril took a team of students to Commonwealth Cyber Initiative's BattleDrones Competition.
April 11, 2022Duminda Wijesekera receives the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Impact Award for his research projects ranging from autonomous vehicle security to smart building.- March 2, 2022Mason students competed in VMI's Cyber Fusion, bringing home the first place trophy. The event is co-hosted by Sen. Mark R. Warner, the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, and the Virginia Cyber Range.
February 1, 2022Faculty from the Department of Cyber Security Engineering will participate in multidisciplinary projects that seek to explore the effects of human behavior on cybersecurity practices and applications.- October 4, 2021Sophomore cyber security engineering major Samantha Barry takes every chance she can get to expand and hone her cyber security and computer science skills.
August 27, 2021George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing is to be part of the CyManII network as they were recognized by President Joe Biden and the White House Administration for efforts to train the next generation of manufacturers in cybersecurity.
May 12, 2021Cyber security engineering major Mitchell Martinez is poised to become the first in his family to earn a college degree.- May 3, 2021Mason’s Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR) held its fourth annual Andrew P.