Information Sciences and Technology Faculty

Our faculty members work in machine learning, health informatics, cybersecurity, learning technologies, cloud computing, and more.

  • Mason IST associate professor Riki Morikawa

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Telecommunications, Wireless networking, Satellites
  • Mason IST assistant professor Vivian Motti

    Associate Professor/Tenured

    Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, ubiquitous computing, wearable health, and usable privacy.
  • Mason IST associate professor Jianli Pan

    Associate Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Internet of Things (IoT), edge/cloud computing, AI/machine learning, and cybersecurity
  • Mason IST associate professor Hemant Purohit

    Associate Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: The intersection of computing and social sciences to understand and model online human behavior to address social problems.
  • Mason IST associate professor Hadi Rezazad

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Mason IST professor Ioulia Rytikova

    Professor / Teaching
    Associate Chair for Graduate Studies; Director of Online MS AIT Program

    Research Interests: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Educational Data Mining, Data Sciences, Personalized Learning, STEM Education, Health Information Technologies, Operations Research, and Engineering
  • Mason IST Professor Kamaljeet Sanghera

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Personalized learning
  • Mason IST assistant professor Gene Shuman

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Data mining, machine learning, analytics, visualization, biomechanical applications, software engineering, and project management.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Sharmin Sultana

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Multimodal Image Processing, artificial intelligence, computer vision and deep learning focusing on the medical imaging domain.
  • 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.