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.

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  • A headshot of Bioengineering professor Ketul Popat

    Chair, Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Nanomaterials, Surface Modification, Orthopedic and Cardiovascular applications.
  • 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 SEOR professor and associate dean of research Art Pyster

    Associate Dean for Research in the CEC; Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    At Mason, Art Pyster is a professor of systems engineering, but his primary role is associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC)
  • Mason statistics professor Wanli Qiao

    Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, geometric data analysis, machine learning, extreme value theory
  • Mason CS professor Huzefa Rangwala

    Professor, Computer Science; Affiliate Faculty, Bioengineering  

    Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Data Analytics, Data Mining, Personalized Learning, Computer Science Education, Machine Learning, Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Mason SEOR assistant professor Ali Raz

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Defense and aerospace systems, system of systems/ multi-robots, information fusion, test, evaluation, and explainable AI
  • Mason associate professor Michael S. Reep

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Software Engineering, Agile in Federal Government, Disciplined Agile
  • 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 CS associate professor Dana Richards

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Mason assistant professor Nicholas Rios stands for a headshot photo in front of the Nguyen Engineering building.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Functional data analysis, computational statistics, Gaussian process modeling, models for compositional data analysis.