Graduate Faculty

Meet our tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computing. 

  • A photo of Sharon Adamus
    Sharon Adamus

    Professor, Department of Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing

    Sharon Adamus’ leadership in the development of the school’s undergraduate programs draws from her extensive study and experience in forward-thinking higher education programs.
  • Massimiliano Albanese wears a gray collared shirt in his faculty profile for the IST department at George Mason University.
    Massimiliano Albanese

    Associate Professor / Tenured Associate Chair for Research, Department of Information Sciences and Technology - Associate Director, Center for Secure Information Systems

    Research Interests: AI & ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, and Smart Communities
  • Mehdi Darehbidi wears a dark suit, striped tie, and glasses in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Mehdi Amiri Darehbidi

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Fatigue and Fracture, electrochemistry and corrosion, computational materials, reliability, thermodynamics and heat transfer, failure mechanics.
  • Mason associate professor Paul Ammann wears a gray shirt and has gray hair in his profile
    Paul Ammann

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Software Engineering
  • Mason assistant professor Antonios Anastasopoulos wears a dark, collared shirt and has a dark hair and beard in his profile
    Antonios Anastasopoulos

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Mason bioengineering professor Giorgio Ascoli wears a black suit, light shirt and tie in his faculty profile
    Giorgio Ascoli

    Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Computing  

    Research Interests: Investigating the relationship between brain structure, activity, and function from the cellular level to the circuit level
  • Mason CYSE professor Giuseppe Ateniese wears a gray suit, light-blue shirt, and glasses in his faculty profile
    Giuseppe Ateniese

    Professor and Eminent Scholar, Department of Cyber Security Engineering and Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography
  • Mason assistant professor Johnathan Auerbach wears a white, collared-shirt and has brown hair and a beard in his faculty profile
    Jonathan L. Auerbach

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, causal inference, survey methods, longitudinal data, official statistics, open data, citizen science/crowdsourcing/participatory government, urban analytics, public policy.
  • Mason professor Hakan Aydin wears a gray sweater with a light shirt inside and has dark hair in his profile
    Hakan Aydin

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer Systems, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Power-Aware Computing, Fault Tolerance
  • Mason assistant professor Pramita Bagchi wears a striped black and white blouse in her faculty profile
    Pramita Bagchi

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Time series, spatial data, functional data.