College of Engineering and Computing

Incoming University Scholar Dayana Cespedes-Mendoza has been familiar with Mason for more than five years through her participation in Mason’s Early Identification Program (EIP) for first-generation college-bound students, which she joined as an eighth grader.

Research Interests: Developing novel machine learning algorithms for geological problems

Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

Research Interests: Data Science and AI in networking and cyber security, cloud computing security and privacy, cloud visualization, energy efficiency, and resource allocation

Research Interests: Cyber Security and Privacy, Security in Mobile Devices, Mobile Healthcare, Large Data Analysis on Mobile Devices

Research Interests: Software and Systems Security, including software analysis and verification, vulnerability discovery, IoT security, mobile security, and software 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. 

Research interest: Computer Systems Security, with a focus on the Internet of Things and mobile computing

Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Research Interests: Computer science education and computer systems