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 assistant professor Abolfazl Safikhani wears a blue suit and light shirt in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Network modeling, high-dimensional statistics, spatio-temporal models, unsupervised learning (change point detection, clustering), random forest.
  • Mason CEIE professor Sam Salem

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

    Research Interests: Accelerated construction of infrastructure, lean and green construction, project management, public-private partnerships, smart infrastructure, sustainable development, life cycle analysis, and infrastructure asset management.
  • Mason assistant professor Quentin Sanders

    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Bio-medical robots, soft robotics
  • Mason IST Professor Kamaljeet Sanghera

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Personalized learning
  • Data analytics engineering instructor Bernard Schmidt

    Instructor, Assistant Director MS Data Analytics Engineering Program

    Research Interests: Ranges from software development to systems and infrastructure engineering
  • Term Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, Volgenau

  • Mason CS professor Sanjeev Setia

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer systems and networks
  • Mason CS professor Amarda Shehu

    Inaugural VP and Chief AI Officer, Associate Dean for AI Innovation in the CEC, Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Representation Learning, Generative AI,  Language Models, AI-enabled Scientific Discovery
  • SEOR professor Lance Sherry

    Professor, Director at Center for Air Transportation Systems Research; Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Aircraft and drone systems, urban air mobility, air transportation, system modeling and simulation
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Daigo Shishika

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, Multi-Agent Games, Dynamics and Control, Cooperative Control, Animal Group Behavior, Bio-inspired Robotics