Costello Research Digital Platforms

A pair of George Mason University professors are helping needy nonprofits refine their messaging strategies with the help of customized chatbots.

In her off hours, Mariia Petryk, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, is using her data science expertise to help bring decentralized medicine to conflict zones—starting with her birth country, Ukraine.

New research suggests there’s at least one group of people applauding the collapse of local journalism in the United States: corrupt politicians.

The controversy about biased policing seems to draw endless fuel from race-based differences in public perception. Simply put, the vast majority of White citizens in the United States believe the police are doing a good job, including on issues of racial equality, while a similar percentage of Black citizens hold the opposite opinion. Brad Greenwood, professor of information systems and operations management, researches how digital technologies are bringing unprecedented transparency to police practices.

Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance at the Costello College of Business, has received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. According to the NSF website, the CAREER award is given to “early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”

Online technology has made real-time performance feedback a workplace reality. But a pair of Mason professors have found out about a major bias in the system.

Jingyuan Yang, an assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Mason's School of Business, is at the forefront of AI research that aims to crack the codes of the physical world. Her results so far point toward innovative solutions for some of the biggest societal, governmental, and business challenges we face. 

In her 2021 PhD dissertation, Ashley Yuckenberg, a trained journalist and assistant professor of business communications at Mason, plumbs the ethical quandaries of crisis coverage—and provides a framework for guiding journalists through them.

Brad Greenwood, associate professor of information systems and operations management at George Mason University School of Business, and coauthors recently launched a research study that is forthcoming at Information Systems Research that explores what happens to a community’s abortion rates when a workaround for capital constraints becomes available.

Siddharth Bhattacharya, a professor of information systems at Mason, recently co-conducted the first-ever empirical study on competitive poaching, the strategy of bidding on competitors' keywords.