Cyber Security Research

Tanvir Arafin, an expert on transportation security systems, could steal your car...but don't worry, he won't.

Fatima Majid was not just the only one-person team in the top 10 award winners at a recent National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) cyber competition, she was the only student team. Yet she placed ninth out of 51 teams, most of them comprising working professionals.

George Mason researchers discovered a way that a hacker can make scary changes to an AI system with a change to just one of billions of bits.

As plans for Mason Square progress, the Cyber Security Engineering (CYSE) department, the fastest growing department in the College of Engineering and Computing, is eager to leverage the space.

Assistant 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.

Patricia Tran became interested in health informatics while working as a nurse. She is now pursuing a Master of Health Informatics degree at Mason, where she obtained an internship with Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) over the summer to research how 5G-enabled technology can transform telehealth care.

Four Mason Engineering researchers received a $1.6 million grant from DARPA.

Northern Virginia is considered a dynamic tech-centric ecosystem critical to the state’s economy, and George Mason University has been tapped to play a key role to ensure it remains so.