PatriotHacks participants solve real-world problems for real money. Hackathon challenges tackle problems in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, sustainability, and automation during a 36-hour, timed, competitive event.
Student tackle the challenge of power sustainability and resilience as power demands increase. The ECE undergraduate project designed a solar micro-grid on the campus of George Mason University as a scaled study of its implementation in the urban environment.
Mason Engineering researcher, Cameron Nowzari was recently awarded a RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation based on his experience modeling computer virus spread and its parallels with human contagions.
Electrical engineering graduate student, Matthew Thornton, applies a computational method - the Kalman Filter - to estimate and predict new COVID-19 infections each day.