Irina Hashmi

Irina Hashmi strives to enhance student engagement in her undergraduate and graduate courses by incorporating real-world applications. A Mason alumna, she joined the faculty as an assistant professor after a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research investigates how computer science can be applied to solve biological challenges, particularly focusing on molecular interactions to better understand disease and drug designing.

Research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Data Science
• Computational Biology

Teaching

• Computer Programming

• Machine Learning and Data Science

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science, George Mason University

• MS, Computer Science, George Mason University

• BS, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka