July 20, 2026Computer Science Assistant Professor Ziyu Yao received an NSF CAREER award for $674,100 to peel the layers back on AI, developing new methods for understanding the internal mechanisms of LLMs.
July 10, 2026Large language models can identify judgmental language in clinical notes but the settings play a major role in accuracy.
July 10, 2026As artificial intelligence (AI) applications like ChatGPT become more commonplace in K-12 classrooms, school district leaders and policymakers will face the challenge of ensuring these tools are used in an ethical, responsible, and environmentally sustainable way. Seth B. Hunter, associate professor of education leadership and senior fellow in the EdPolicyForward center at George Mason University, has developed an interactive tool to help.
July 9, 2026At George Mason's College of Public Health, faculty are integrating AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an evolving workforce.
July 7, 2026Maryam Parsa received a five-year, $655,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop a new framework for brain-inspired AI.
June 17, 2026Cora Sula, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to study artificial intelligence in classrooms in Estonia this fall.
June 17, 2026The widely used machine-learning technique known as LASSO relegates smaller market events to an ignored “inactive zone”. How can that be a good thing for ambitious asset traders? Bo Hu, assistant professor of finance, explores the logic (and illogic) behind LASSO’s popularity and power.
June 9, 2026Nora McDonald received an NSF CAREER award for $748,000 to understand how adolescents are shaped by personalized digital environments and how they can maintain their sense of self, autonomy, and agency within them.
June 8, 2026PhD student Shiwei Hong developed a collaborative multi-agent AI system that mimics a comedy writers’ room, demonstrating that discussion and feedback among agents improve the quality of machine-generated humor.
June 5, 2026George Mason’s AI in Public Health Summit examined what artificial intelligence could mean for health equity, education, and the future workforce.
