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

  • Mason statistics professor John Stufken

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Orthogonal arrays, crossover designs, optimal design of experiments, and subdata selection methods.
  • Mason statistics chair Jiayang Sun

    Professor, Bernard Dunn Eminent Scholar, and Chair; Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, statistics for big or high-dimensional data, simultaneous inference, multiple comparisons, selection bias, measurement errors, mixtures, causal inference, semi and nonparametric analysis, machine learning, biostatistics, random fields, crowdsourcing, EHR and Text analysis, the interface of statistics and computer science, and other interdisciplinary work.
  • Mason IST professor Kun Sun

    Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Trustworthy computing environment, moving target defense, AI/ML security, smartphone security, software-defined networking, and software security.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Burak Tanyu

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • Mason CS profressor Gheorghe Tecuci

    Professor and Director of the Learning Agents Center; Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Data Mining, Decision Support Systems, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Big Data, Personalized Learning, Educational Data Mining, Expert Systems
  • SEOR and mechanical engineering professor Janis Terpenny

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design, manufacturing, and design education.
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Kuo Tian

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • Mason electrical and computer engineering professor Zhi Tian

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Distributed Learning for MAS, wireless ad hoc networks, multi-robot coordination, information fusion
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Girum Urgessa

    Associate Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Structural response for air-blast, impact, progressive collapse, and underwater explosion, fiber-reinforced polymer composites in structures, engineering education and workforce development.
  • Mason IST department chair Özlem Uzuner

    Professor, Department Chair / Tenured

    Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science.