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Maryam Parsa received a five-year, $655,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop a new framework for brain-inspired AI.

The College of Engineering and Computing's Sai Manoj is will allow for significant cost savings and efficiencies in the arduous process of hardware verification. 

George Mason researchers are leading a Department of Energy–funded project to make AI more energy-efficient and private by using brain-inspired computing and novel spintronic devices.

George Mason researcher Weiwen Jiang received a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his work in quantum computing.

George Mason University has the only electron-beam lithography capabilities in all of Northern Virginia, and faculty member Ethan Ahn is eager to help students and colleagues maximize opportunities in this field.

ECE PhD student Shay Snyder’s hard work and bright ideas brought his lab ample research funding when he started his degree. One secret of his success? Tenacious networking. 

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.  

A 2020 graduate of George Mason’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iranian-born Farnoud Farahmand works for tech giant Apple in Silicon Valley doing a job he hadn’t thought about as an undergrad or even a grad student.

The electronic and computer engineering department gained a new associate professor in 2023, Ethan Ahn, who is leading the Mason Nanoelectronics Lab.

ECE assistant professor Maryam Parsa is one of the four principal investigators on a $2.4 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to create a 3D computer chip that functions like the hippocampus.