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| The B.S. in Information Technology degree program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org. |
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| George Mason University is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research and Education. |
Best Paper Award
An IST PhD student Ms. Xiaojie Guo won the Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019). ICDM is a top conference in data mining with acceptance rate of only 9%. The advisor of Xiaojie Guo and a co-author of the paper is Dr. Liang Zhao, and additional co-authors include Dr. Setareh Rafatirad, Dr. Cameron Nowzari and Dr. Houman Homayoun.