System Trustworthiness and AI Reliability

Building computing systems people can trust.

STAR Lab at George Mason University studies how to make AI models, the software they write, and the systems they run on reliable, secure, and correct.

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Research

AI reliability

Robustness, correctness, and failure analysis of machine learning and LLM-based systems.

Software engineering

Testing, analysis, and repair of software, both for AI systems and using AI.

System security

Finding and preventing vulnerabilities in real-world software and infrastructure.

ML systems

Efficient and dependable infrastructure for training and serving models.

People

Director

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Simin Chen

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

PhD students

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Student Name

PhD student · research topic

Publications

  • Venue 2026

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    Author One, Author Two, Simin Chen

News

  • The STAR Lab website is live, with our new Polaris logo.

Join us

We are looking for motivated PhD students, master's students, and undergraduates interested in trustworthy AI, software engineering, and systems. If you'd like to work with us, email Simin Chen with your CV and a short note about the problems that excite you.

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