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Foteini Baldimtsi, an assistant professor in Mason’s Department of Computer Science, and James Casey, an associate professor in Mason’s Computer Game Design program, help us understand what the metaverse is, or will be, and how the volatile world of cryptocurrency fits in.

More than 150 faculty and graduate students from ����AV’s 10 schools and colleges got together in the Hub on Friday, February 3, to chat about artificial intelligence (AI).

Researcher Elizabeth “Beth” Phillips is working with collaborators from labs around the country to answer these pressing questions about artificial intelligence and robotics in her role as the principal investigator of Mason's Applied Psychology and Autonomous System Lab.

Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

Drawn by Mason’s multidisciplinary research and teaching, Missy Cummings will create a new program in the design and deployment of Artificial Intelligence.

Using virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), a team of researchers at ����AV is taking a wrecking ball to barriers faced by neurodiverse individuals in construction.

Professor Sanmay Das received two grants from the NSF to use computing to develop a new method of optimizing these resource allocation decisions.

Last fall, faculty teams were invited to submit proposals describing thematic hiring opportunities. The decision committee evaluated 14 proposals for innovation and timeliness, alignment with Mason strengths, recruiting plans and hiring strategies.

Researchers from ����AV, Virginia Tech, and Old Dominion University collaborate on a $1 million funded research project by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative to improve AI in autonomous cars.