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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  • Mason statistics chair Jiayang Sun

    Professor, Bernard Dunn Eminent Scholar, and Chair; Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, statistics for big or high-dimensional data, simultaneous inference, multiple comparisons, selection bias, measurement errors, mixtures, causal inference, semi and nonparametric analysis, machine learning, biostatistics, random fields, crowdsourcing, EHR and Text analysis, the interface of statistics and computer science, and other interdisciplinary work.
  • Mason IST professor Kun Sun

    Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Trustworthy computing environment, moving target defense, AI/ML security, smartphone security, software-defined networking, and software security.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Burak Tanyu

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

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • 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 associate professor Kuo Tian

    Associate 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.
  • Rahul Tikekar, in a light shirt and colored tie, works for George Mason

    Associate Professor / Teaching-track, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Databases, graph analytics
  • Mason IST assistant professor Sadegh Torabi

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track; Research Fellow at CSIS

    Research Interests: Applied AI in operational cybersecurity, Security of emerging IoT/OT, and Internet Measurements
  • Mason IST department chair Özlem Uzuner

    Professor, Department Chair / Tenured

    Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science.