College of Engineering and Computing Graduate Faculty

Several categories of graduate faculty exist at George Mason University. Current Mason tenured and tenure-track faculty are automatically granted active graduate faculty status and maintain that status throughout their employment as tenure-line faculty. Please see the list of CEC’s tenured and tenure-track graduate faculty below. CEC and Provost-appointed non-tenured/tenure-track graduate faculty can be found in the database located on the Provost’s Office website.

Meet the College of Engineering and Computing Tenured and Tenure-Track Graduate Faculty

  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Xuesu Xiao wearing a white collared shirt and black suit jacket.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Field robotics, motion planning, machine learning
  • GM SEOR professor Ju Xie wears glasses and a light shirt

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research; CEIE Affiliate Faculty

    Research Interests: Air Transportation, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-physical Systems, Data Centers, Digital Twin, Manufacturing Management, Optimization, Power Systems, Simulation
  • Man with glasses and dark blazer stands in front of a gray wall

    Associate Professor / Tenured; Co-Director of MS INFS Program

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Human-Centered Computing, Immersive Systems
  • Mason IST assistant professor Lei Yang

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Science
  • Mason CS assistant professor Lishan Yang

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: System reliability, including the reliable operation of GPUs, nonconventional sensors, autonomous driving systems, and neural networks
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Ningshi Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation
  • Computer Science assistant professor Shuochao Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: physical-aware, resource-efficient, reliable, and predictable artificial intelligence systems for future intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Ziyu Yao, wearing glasses, a dark winter coat with a fur-trimmed hood, stands outdoors near a green-tiled wall and brick buildings.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human-AI interaction, NLP, machine learning
  • A headshot of CS associate professor Jinwei Ye, wearing a grey blazer over a white blouse, facing the camera and smiling slightly against a neutral grey background.

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer vision, computational imaging, and computer graphics
  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Fang-Yi Yu, wearing a white collared shirt, a gray suit jacket, and glasses.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Interface between machine learning, artificial intelligence, and economics