Research

Our Pioneering Research Has a Real Impact

Mason Engineering researchers are at the forefront of exploration and study in a number of significant areas.

From our roots in information and communication technology engineering, we are building inroads into uncharted territories of a future that is more efficient, safer, healthier, and more prosperous. 

Researchers are improving the following critical areas:

Air transportation management – As a center of excellence in operations research (NEXTOR), our work is staying ahead of the challenge of coordinating an increasingly crowded sky.

Information and network assurance – We’re planning for the next big network hack, and building defenses to protect you, your business, and our national communications systems from attack.

Configuration analytics and assurance – The best defense is a good offense. Our researchers are constructing testing methods and automatic systems to keep up with quickly changing user environments, networks, and cyber physical systems.

Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Cyber, and Intelligence (C5I) – We’re the nation’s first and only public university to offer comprehensive education and research in engineering for C5I. No other university has access to such research in sensing and fusion, C3 architectures, communications and signal processing, command support and intelligent systems, modeling and simulation, and distributed education and training.

Secure Information Systems – We’re imagining and composing the new structures for secure information. This realm encompasses information secrecy, integrity, and availability problems in military, civil, and commercial sectors.

Learning agents – We’re conducting groundbreaking experimental research on the development of knowledge-based learning and problem solving for artificial intelligence.