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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  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Charles White

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Mechanics and material behavior.
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    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Mason CYSE Professor Duminda Wijesekera

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering and Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Safety and security of networked control systems overall and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Next G-based Edge services, building digital twins and vulnerability detection, and mitigation and applying formal methods to ensure cyber security
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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, Data Mining, Optimization, Probabilistic Modeling, Simulation, Systems Architecture, Predictive Analytics
  • 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