About the Center
The Wireless Cyber Center (WirelessCyber@Mason) is a chartered multidisciplinary research center within the College of Engineering and Computing. The center comprises top-notch researchers with diverse expertise and backgrounds from multiple departments and units across Mason including Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Science; Cyber Security Engineering; Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering; Geography and Geoinformation Science; and the Office of Technology Transfer.
Mission
- Be an internationally recognized leading research group in the wireless and cybersecurity domains
- Foster cross-disciplinary research both within Mason and across the globe.
- Promote the current focused research areas including secure 5G/FutureG wireless communications and networking, AI-powered cybersecurity, security and privacy of generative AI, virtual reality, wireless cyber-physical systems/Internet of Things (IoT) security and privacy, and socio-economic analysis of emerging technologies.
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Sponsors
The sponsors of research conducted within WirelessCyber include federal agencies such as:
And industry partners such as:
Read Our News Stories
February 8, 2024Mason researcher Vijay Shah has joined a $2 million project to develop a system to secure 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, a collaboration between Mason and Virginia Tech, Penn State University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
December 12, 2023Two College of Engineering and Computing faculty members, Kai Zeng and Vijay K. Shah, are part of a project awarded $1.7 million by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund.
February 24, 2023George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing researchers are using novel, real-time technology to keep essential, sensitive wireless communications from getting jammed.
February 2, 2021Four Mason Engineering researchers received a $1.6 million grant from DARPA.
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Leadership
Faculty associated with the Wireless Cyber Center
CEC Faculty
Non-CEC Faculty
- George J. Letscher, Office of Technology Transfer
- David Grossman, Office of Technology Transfer
- Edward John Oughton; Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, College of Science
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Research and Educational Themes
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Wireless Technologies
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Cybersecurity and Cyber Physical Systems
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Socioeconomic Impacts
- 5G/FutureG
- Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN)
- Testbed development and prototyping
- mmWave communications
- Massive MIMO
- Radar array processing
- Cognitive radio
- Software-Defined Radio
- Satellite communications
- Space/non-terrestrial networks
- Vehicular networks
- V2X communications
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Wireless mesh networks
- Dynamic spectrum sharing
- Wireless coexistence
- Wireless channel characterization
- Backscatter communications
- Low power networks
- Wireless sensing systems
- Joint sensing and communications
- High-speed low latency wireless networks
- Wireless positioning and geolocation
- Wireless support for AR/VR and multimedia applications
- PHY security
- O-RAN security and privacy
- Internet security
- Internet of Things (IoT) security
- Smart grid security and privacy
- Wireless security protocols
- Edge computing security
- Secure device pairing
- Secure low-power communications
- Adversarial AI
- Vehicular network security
- V2X security and privacy
- Secure wireless communications
- Covert communications
- Watermarking for generative AI
- Security and privacy of distributed/federated learning
- Workforce development
- Undergraduate and graduate curriculum
- K–12 outreach - Technology transfer to industry and government
- Techno-economic analysis
- Telecommunications economics
- Spectrum policy
- Spectrum auctions
- Decision support models
- Data Analytics
- Risk analysis
- Transportation economics
- Travel demand modeling
- Transportation planning