Cyber Leadership

Mason Engineering takes the lead with outstanding faculty. Our researchers are finding novel ways to secure the nation's infrastructure and protect data from hackers. Our teachers are training the next generation of experts to engineer cyber solutions.

  • Tanvir Arafin wears a dark suit and blue shirt in his faculty profile for the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at GMU
    Tanvir Arafin

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Hardware Security, Memory Systems
  • Mason CYSE professor Giuseppe Ateniese wears a gray suit, light-blue shirt, and glasses in his faculty profile
    Giuseppe Ateniese

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

    Research Interests: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography
  • GMU CYSE professor Peggy Brouse has brown hair, glasses, and pink shirt in her profile
    Peggy Brouse

    Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cyber Security Engineering; Affiliate Faculty, SEOR

    Research Interests: Cost Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling
  • Mason CYSE professor Henry Coffman wears a black suit and glasses and is bald in his faculty profile
    Henry Coffman

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Information Technology, cybersecurity education
  • CYSE associate professor Paulo Costa wears a plaid shirt and glasses in his profile for the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at Mason
    Paulo Costa

    Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Defense systems, ontologies and information fusion, probabilistic reasoning
  • CYSE Assistant Professor Mohamed Gebril wears a tan shirt and glasses in his faculty profile at GMU
    Mohamed Gebril

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Threat Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, UAV security
  • Moinul Hossain wears a gray suit and light-blue shirt in his faculty profile for the Cyber Security Engineering department
    Moinul Hossain

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Security assessment of wireless network protocols, threat modeling and counter-mechanism design, cross-technology spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. 
  • Mohamed Ibrahem, Mason CYSE assistant professor, wears a dark suit and tie, and white shirt in his profile
    Mohamed Ibrahem

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Security and privacy in wireless networks including IoT and smart grid AMI networks, privacy-preserving machine learning, machine learning for cyber-security, secure federated learning, traffic analysis attacks and countermeasures, and cyber-physical Systems Security
  • CYSE Assistant Professor Vijay Shah wears a red, collared-shirt and glasses in his faculty profile at GMU
    Vijay Shah

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: 5G/Next-G Networks, Wireless security, O-RAN, AI/ML, and Spectrum sharing
  • GMU assistant professor Mingkui Wei wears a dark-gray shirt in his faculty profile
    Mingkui Wei

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer network and web application security