Volgenau School of Engineering

Whole-person Psychological Assessment, Statistical Modeling, Psychometric Research
including the construction and validation of assessment instruments and the measurement of knowledge, skills, abilities, traits, dispositions, and achievements, Cognitive Security and Operations in the Information Environment, AI/ML/HLT

Kimmy Duong, an accomplished tech entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a refugee who has overcome countless obstacles to achieve success in life, will receive the Mason Medal, George Mason University’s highest honorary award, at the 2023 Spring Commencement.

Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI

Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved the move to establish a School of Computing at Mason—the first such school in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved Mason’s proposal to set the stage for a reorganization of the Volgenau School of Engineering to a newly formed College of Engineering and Computing, comprising the proposed School of Computing and Volgenau School of Engineering. The College of Engineering and Computing will be led by Ken Ball. The change will become effective on April 1, 2021.

Honors College student Brenda Henriquez has been named an Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholar, a program that recognizes outstanding undergraduate female students studying computer science.