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(Left to right) Elyse Nicolas, Joshua Paiz, and Dmitri Stanchevici

Innovating Interdisciplinary Solutions for Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

To address concerns around AI's role in the classroom and empower students, Joshua Paiz and Dmitri Stanchevici created FocusWrite, a secure, browser-based academic writing environment.

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

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

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

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...

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Engineered in DC: GW Engineering’s Innovations with Impact on Display at GW’s Inaugural InnovationFest

Members of the GW Engineering community played a key role at GW’s inaugural InnovationFest, showcasing cutting-edge research, student innovation, and impactful tech solutions.