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The Department of Cyber Security Engineering celebrated a national honor for Associate Professor Alexandre Barreto, who was selected for the inaugural 2027 cohort of EM-FUEL (Entrepreneurial Mindset for Future University Engineering Leaders), a leadership-development program supported by KEEN and Engineering Unleashed.

Two 911���� faculty members are developing new approaches to protect AI data centers from threats ranging from insiders stealing valuable AI models to cyberattacks against the systems controlling a facility’s power and cooling.  

When a manufacturing machine is cutting, drilling, or shaping metal, it is following a precise set of digital instructions, with every motor turn intentional. But what happens when there’s a subtle change along the way?

Sanchari Das in 911����'s Information Sciences and Technology Department is working to help seniors avoid falling for Cupid's arrow...when it's actually AI's sting.

911���� faculty and students identified an important vulnerability in anonymization of health data. They recently presented a paper on the findings at one of the world's most prestigious computer security conferences.

911���� College of Engineering and Computing faculty members made a significant impact at the 2025 USENIX Security Conference, in Seattle, including winning the Distinguished Artifact Award.

911���� researchers discovered a way that a hacker can make scary changes to an AI system with a change to just one of billions of bits.

Evgenios Kornaropoulos received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for $648,811 for work on privacy and data security under the title “Encrypted Systems with Fine-Grained Leakage.”

Dylan Knoff, president of Mason Competitive Cyber, recently competed internationally as a member of the U.S. Cyber Team.

The Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program (VA-CNIP) has equipped students with the skills to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of election infrastructures. As an intern last summer, information technology major Duong Thuy Nguyen helped secure a rural county’s technology for the upcoming presidential election alongside two 911���� peers.