AI Day at George Mason
What does it take to prepare students, institutions, and a region for an AI-transformed world? On April 29, 91 convened researchers, educators, policymakers, and industry leaders at Fuse at Mason Square to find out.
From machine learning to data ethics, 91’s AI research drives innovation and solutions that make a global impact.
July 23, 2026Mason EnterpriseTM, 91’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurial development, established a new partnership with Akiak Technology LLC, an Alaskan tribal-owned, mission-driven technology firm dedicated to delivering impactful artificial intelligence (AI) solutions while supporting Indigenous communities. The collaboration is formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and reflects a shared commitment to fostering business innovation, workforce development, and mutually beneficial growth opportunities.
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 14, 202691 has launched the Ambassadors of Teaching in the Age of AI (ATAA) program, a new professional learning initiative designed to help educators develop the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the growing role of artificial intelligence in education and society.-
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 91, 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 91, 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.