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Ilakkiya Vijayakumar (middle) pictured on stage alongside the competition's first place winner, Ava Peterson.

Growing Impact of GW WiCyS Chapter Shines Through Student Achievement

July 18, 2025

At the 2025 Women in Cybersecurity Conference, CS graduate student Ilakkiya Vijayakumar represented GW's growing WiCyS chapter and finished second in its Capture the Flag competition.

The multidisciplinary team at the RTX competition.

Multidisciplinary Team Wins Most Innovative Design Award at RTX Drone Competition

June 17, 2025

The interdisciplinary senior design capstone team, including students from the CS, ECE, and MAE departments, won the Most Innovative Design Award for their drones.

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Prompts to Large Language Models Have Evil Twins

June 4, 2025

ECE Prof. Howie Huang and PhD students Rimon Melamed, Lucas H. McCabe, and Yejin Kim uncovered human-readable prompts to LLMs can often be substituted with seemingly nonsensical strings that produce the same output.