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