Building meaningful partnerships across the university with external corporate, government, academic, non-profit, and global entities to support the mission of the College of Engineering and Computing and the strategic objectives of George Mason University.
Liza Wilson Durant is the associate provost for strategic initiatives and community engagement and a professor and associate dean at the College of Engineering and Computing. She is currently the director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative’s (CCI) Northern Virginia Node. The CCI is a $17.5 million initiative to ensure Virginia is recognized as a global leader in secure cyber-physical systems and in the digital economy more broadly for decades to come by supporting world-class research at the intersection of data, autonomy, and security, promoting technology, commercialization, and entrepreneurship; and preparing future generations of innovators and research leaders.