AI Day at George Mason
What does it take to prepare students, institutions, and a region for an AI-transformed world? On April 29, George Mason University convened researchers, educators, policymakers, and industry leaders at Fuse at Mason Square to find out.
From machine learning to data ethics, George Mason University’s AI research drives innovation and solutions that make a global impact.
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 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.
June 3, 2026Charmaine Madison, George Mason University vice president for information technology and chief information officer, has been honored by Cloudforce with a Change Champion Award. Cloudforce’s Frontier Awards recognize individuals who are driving impact with artificial intelligence (AI), embedding AI into operations, transforming how work gets done, and delivering outcomes at scale.
May 19, 2026George Mason's Anomadarshi Barua will present research on using AI and chaos theory to rebuild missing pieces of speech at one of the world’s leading conferences on natural language processing.
May 11, 2026Graduating community health major Emaan Amir combines research, clinical work, and interdisciplinary study as she heads toward her medical career.
May 6, 2026These learning design and technology courses pair graduate students with real startup clients to apply learning experience design (LXD) and UX research skills in hands-on consulting projects.
April 28, 2026Professor Farrokh Alemi joins President Gregory Washington to discuss the use of AI in clinics and classrooms.