GW Engineering Hosts Cyber Scholars to Strengthen U.S. Digital Defense
GW Engineering hosted the DoD Cyber Service Academy boot camp, welcoming future cyber defenders and showcasing its role in advancing national cybersecurity education.
Department News
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.
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.
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.
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...