Information Sciences and Technology Faculty

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

  • Mason professor in practice Gail Therrien

    Professor of Practice, Department of Information Sciences and Technology

    Research Interests: Women in Technology, Technology Education, Learning Analytics, Robotics, Cybersecurity
  • Mason IST assistant professor Sadegh Torabi

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Internet measurements, security of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Security of the EV Charging Ecosystem, Malicious Internet/Network traffic analysis and characterization, Malware/Ransomware detection and analysis
  • Mason IST department chair Özlem Uzuner

    Professor, Department Chair / Tenured

    Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science.
  • Mason IST professor Diana Wang

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: E-Commerce, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR) Evaluation, Decision Making Support, IT Education, and Distance Education.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Zhisheng Yan

    Associate Professor / Tenured
    Co-Director of MS INFS Program

    Research Interests: Systems and security issues of immersive computing systems, such as VR, AR, imaging, and video systems.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Lei Yang

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Applied Machine Learning, Hardware/Software Co-Exploration for Neural Network Architectures, Embedded Systems
  • Mason IST assistant professor Marcos Zampieri

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing