Meet Our Faculty

Get to know our faculty and their areas of expertise

The College of Engineering and Computing features 200+ faculty members across 10 departments with areas of expertise in engineering and technology, research, design, and teaching. Select the tabs below to learn more about our expert faculty.

Full Faculty Directory

  • Mason associate professor Jens-Peter Kaps

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Ultra-low-power cryptographic hardware design, side-channel analysis, computer arithmetic, efficient cryptographic algorithms, and ubiquitous computing
  • Assistant professor Tugba Karabiyik

    Assistant Professor, (joint-appointment) Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Mathematical Modeling, Data Visualization, Systems Thinking, Systems Engineering, Engineering Design
  • Associate professor Umit Karabiyik

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Digital and Cyber Forensics, User and Data Privacy, Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Forensics and Security, Forensic Intelligence
  • GMU professor Nathan Kathir in a dark blue suit and tie

    Professor and Director of Senior Projects, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research interests: Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), vulnerability assessments and mitigations, probabilistic risk evaluation and risk management, security engineering, blast modeling and mitigation of effects, facilities engineering, and facilities management.
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Khaled Khasawneh

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture support for security, malware detection, adversarial machine learning, and side channel attacks
  • Angkul Kongmunvattana wears a red tie with his suit and glasses

    Professor (Teaching), Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Parallel and distributed systems, computer architecture, performance optimization
  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Evgenios Kornaropoulos, wearing a dark blue button-up shirt, smiling slightly against a dark gray background.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer security, applied cryptography
  • Mason professor Jana Kosecka

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Visual perception, navigation, machine learning
  • Mason CEIE associate chair and professor Laura Kosoglu

    Professor and Associate Chair; Director of CEIE Graduate Program, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, soil-structure interaction, clay surface science, environmental geotechnics, electrokinetics, foundations.
  • Mason ECE professor and associate chair Pelin Kurtay

    Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Pelin Kurtay is the recipient of the 2015 Teacher of Distinction Award at George Mason University for exceptional teaching and commitment to teaching-related activities in electrical and computer engineering and Information technology