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

  • Bo Yu wears a gray skirt suit and glasses

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer Network Security, Autonomous Vehicle Safety, Medical Safety and Sensitive Data Privacy, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Security Assurance, Machine Learning
  • A photo of CS associate professor Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu, wearing a light blue button-up shirt, sitting indoors with an American flag blurred in the background.

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI), virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)
  • George Mason statue

    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Neural deficits and motor control, Upper extremity functional impairments, Computational modeling of human movement
  • Mason professor Syed Abbas Zaidi

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Systems Architecture
  • Gray silhouette of a person on a light gray background, a generic placeholder profile image.

    Assistant Professor (Teaching), Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Evolutionary algorithms, computational biology and bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
  • Mason IST assistant professor Marcos Zampieri

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
  • Mason ECE professor Kai Zeng

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: 5G Wireless Security, Spectrum Sharing, CPS/IoT Security, Machine Learning, Physical Layer Security, Network Forensics
  • Mason CS associate professor Qiang Zeng

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research interest: Computer systems security, with a focus on the Internet of Things and mobile computing
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Emma Zhang

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

    Research Interests: Strong, durable, and sustainable structures, with a special focus on bio-based self-healing concrete, biomolecules modified anticorrosive steel structures, fungal skin for intelligent sensing, and bio-inspired damage self-reporting structures.
  • Mason CS assistant professor Xiaokuan Zhang

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer system security, privacy