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 CS profressor Gheorghe Tecuci

    Professor and Director of the Learning Agents Center; Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Data Mining, Decision Support Systems, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Big Data, Personalized Learning, Educational Data Mining, Expert Systems
  • SEOR and mechanical engineering professor Janis Terpenny

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design, manufacturing, and design education.
  • 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 CEIE assistant professor Kuo Tian

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

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • 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
  • GM CEIE professor Girum Urgessa

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

    Research Interests: Structural response for air-blast, impact, progressive collapse, and underwater explosion, fiber-reinforced polymer composites in structures, engineering education and workforce development.
  • 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 electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Filipe Veiga

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation
  • GM associate professor Remi Veneziano

    Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Designing and synthesizing new composite nanomaterials, combining structured 3D DNA nanoparticles with proteins, and lipids
  • Mason CEIE professor Mohan Venigalla

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

    Research Interests: Transportation systems analysis and planning with an emphasis on sustainable transportation, air quality, transit, shared mobility, and urban freight planning.