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George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú President Gregory Washington has announced the recipients of the 2025 Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence, honoring 12 George Mason faculty members for their work on behalf of the university, students, and the broader community.

George Mason researcher Weiwen Jiang received a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his work in quantum computing.

George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú has the only electron-beam lithography capabilities in all of Northern Virginia, and faculty member Ethan Ahn is eager to help students and colleagues maximize opportunities in this field.

ECE PhD student Shay Snyder’s hard work and bright ideas brought his lab ample research funding when he started his degree. One secret of his success? Tenacious networking. 

A 2020 graduate of George Mason’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iranian-born Farnoud Farahmand works for tech giant Apple in Silicon Valley doing a job he hadn’t thought about as an undergrad or even a grad student.

ECE assistant professor Maryam Parsa is one of the four principal investigators on a $2.4 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to create a 3D computer chip that functions like the hippocampus.

Weiwen Jiang in George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú's College of Engineering and Computing has two new NSF grants to tackle challenges in quantum computing.

Khaled N. Khasawneh, assistant professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Computer Architecture, Machine Learning, and Security (CAMLsec) Lab, has been awarded two NSF grants. These grants are in collaboration with Â鶹¹ú²ú of California (UC) Davis and UC Riverside, and total $2.4M. 

Khaled N. Khasawneh, assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú, contributed significant research and work to two papers that have been recognized in the area of hardware security.

Assistant Professor Weiwen Jiang receives the 2021 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award.