Meet Our Faculty

Get to know our faculty and their areas of expertise

The College of Engineering and Computing features 200+ faculty members across 10 departments with areas of expertise in engineering and technology, research, design, and teaching. Select the tabs below to learn more about our expert faculty.

Full Faculty Directory

  • Mason associate professor Songqing Chen

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer and Network Security, computer networks, computer systems, parallel and distributed systems, mobile computing
  • Mason associate professor Xiang Chen

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: AI systems, Electronic design automation, Computing systems and architecture
  • Mason bioengineering associate professor Parag Chitnis

    Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering  

    Research Interests: Medical ultrasonics and photoacoustics drives innovation in biomedical imaging and tissue characterization
  • Mason IST assistant professor Olcay Ciftci

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Mason CYSE professor Henry Coffman

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Information Technology, cybersecurity education
  • CYSE associate professor Paulo Costa

    Associate Professor, SEOR; Interim Chair, Department of Cyber Security Engineering Director, Center of Excellence in C5I

    Research Interests: Probabilistic Ontologies, Decision Support Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Fusion, and Cyber-Physical Systems Security
  • Professor and Director of MARC Missy Cummings

    Professor and Director of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC); First American Bank Chair

    Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI
  • Mason bioengineering assistant professor Holger Dannenberg

    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Mechanisms and functions underlying the formation of memory and memory-guided navigation with a focus on the septohippocampal brain circuitry
  • Mason Computer Science professor Sanmay Das

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational social science
  • Mason assistant professor Isuru Dassanayake wears a blue suit and tie in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Machine learning, statistics computing, heteroscedastic mixed-effects models, spatial data analysis, bayesian statistics, high dimensional data analysis.