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

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    Director of Programs and Research, Deputy Title IX Coordinator; Office of Outreach, Student Success, and Engagement (OSSE)

    Christi Wilcox is a higher education professional with extensive experience in cross-collaboration between higher education, community, corporate, and foundation partners.
  • Mason CS assistant professor Xuesu Xiao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Field Robotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning
  • GM SEOR professor Ju Xie wears glasses and a light shirt

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Air Transportation, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-physical Systems, Data Centers, Digital Twin, Manufacturing Management, Optimization, Power Systems, Simulation
  • Mason IST assistant professor Zhisheng Yan

    Associate Professor / Tenured
    Co-Director of MS INFS Program

    Research Interests: Systems and security issues of immersive computing systems, such as VR, AR, imaging, and video systems.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Lei Yang

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Applied Machine Learning, Hardware/Software Co-Exploration for Neural Network Architectures, Embedded Systems
  • Mason CS assistant professor Lishan Yang

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: System reliability, including the reliable operation of GPUs, nonconventional sensors, autonomous driving systems, and neural networks
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Ningshi Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation
  • Computer Science assistant professor Shuochao Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Shuochao Yao's research focuses on building physical-aware, resource-efficient, reliable, and predictable artificial intelligence systems for future intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
  • Computer Science assistant professor Ziyu Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human AI interaction, NLP, machine learning
  • Mason CS assistant professor Grigory Yaroslatsev

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Machine learning, data science, and private data release