Artificial Intelligence

NIH grant to fund depression chatbot for Black patients

Two George Mason faculty member will represent the university on a governor-created task force on AI.

George Mason researchers harness the power of artificial intelligence to match patients with the most effective antidepressant for their unique needs.

This research is focused on smoking cessation particularly for Virginia youth and is funded in part by a Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth grant

A $1 million grant from the U.S. Senate will create a new interdisciplinary center at George Mason designed to help Virginia small businesses take advantage of advances in artificial intelligence. Read who is behind this first-of-its-kind center and how it will work.

Professor Farrokh Alemi receives NIH grant to pilot first-of-its-kind, evidence-based artificial intelligence tool to address the medication needs of Black and African American people with depression. This is part of the college’s Innovate for Good story series. 

Doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering Sreenitha Kasarapu presented “Leveraging Explainable AI for Designing Evolvable Malware” at the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative 2024 Symposium in April.  

MeAgainMeds.com, a free AI-powered website, helps clinicians more effectively match patients with the optimal antidepressant using big data.

In two recent research projects, George Mason statistics professor Abolfazl Safikhani has applied machine learning tools to time series analysis of land use and real estate pricing to help decision-makers in urban planning and real estate.  

"Fairfax Times" covers the grand opening of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center