Cyber Security Engineering Faculty

Expert faculty members in the fields of wireless communication and 5G networks, artificial intelligence, bitcoin and user privacy, and network security.

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer network and web application security