Graduate Faculty

Meet our tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computing. 

  • Massimiliano Albanese wears a gray collared shirt in his faculty profile for the IST department at George Mason University.

    Associate Professor / Tenured Associate Chair for Research, Department of Information Sciences and Technology - Associate Director, Center for Secure Information Systems

    Research Interests: AI & ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, and Smart Communities
  • Mehdi Darehbidi wears a dark suit, striped tie, and glasses in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Fatigue and Fracture, electrochemistry and corrosion, computational materials, reliability, thermodynamics and heat transfer, failure mechanics.
  • Mason associate professor Paul Ammann wears a gray shirt and has gray hair in his profile

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Software Engineering
  • Mason assistant professor Antonios Anastasopoulos wears a dark, collared shirt and has a dark hair and beard in his profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Mason bioengineering professor Giorgio Ascoli wears a black suit, light shirt and tie in his faculty profile

    Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Computing  

    Research Interests: Investigating the relationship between brain structure, activity, and function from the cellular level to the circuit level
  • 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
  • Mason assistant professor Johnathan Auerbach wears a white, collared-shirt and has brown hair and a beard in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, causal inference, survey methods, longitudinal data, official statistics, open data, citizen science/crowdsourcing/participatory government, urban analytics, public policy.
  • Mason professor Hakan Aydin wears a gray sweater with a light shirt inside and has dark hair in his profile

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer Systems, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Power-Aware Computing, Fault Tolerance
  • Mason assistant professor Pramita Bagchi wears a striped black and white blouse in her faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Time series, spatial data, functional data.
  • Shaghayegh Bagheri wears a black cardigan and white blouse in her faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics