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.
Associate Professor, Associate Director at the Center for Secure Information Systems Information Sciences and Technology College of Engineering and Computing
Massimiliano Albanese is an associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology, and he also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) and the Codirector of the Laboratory for IT Entrepreneurship (LITE). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2005 from the University of Naples Federico II, and joined George Mason University in 2011 after serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland.Assistant Professor
Computer Science
College of Engineering and ComputingFoteini Baldimtsi has taught at George Mason University since 2016. Her research interests are cryptography, privacy, and data security. She focuses on designing provably secure cryptographic schemes for a variety of applications such as privacy preserving identity management, secure electronic payments and private and scalable blockchain transactions. She is a recipient of an IBM faculty award and her research is supported by NSF, NSA and the Zcash Foundation.Associate Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
College of Engineering and ComputingEbrima Cessay’s primary research interests are at the intersection of computer security and machine learning. More specifically, he is interested both in using machine learning to improve software security and in improving security and reliability of the machine learning models themselves. He also regularly delves into insider, intrusion, misuse detection, adaptive and resilience systems, data science and as well as advance analytics.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Volgenau
Director, CINA
Jim Jones has been a cyber security and digital forensics practitioner, researcher, and educator for over 25 years in industry, government, and academia.
Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research, Volgenau Associate Director, C4I Center, Volgenau
With just a swipe or a keystroke, citizens of the Information Age expect instant access to vast stores of knowledge. Turning that expectation into reality is Kathryn Laskey’s passion. She develops methods for transforming data from a variety of sources into information to answer our questions and improve our decisions. She has applied her research to areas as diverse as detecting insider threats in information systems, predicting innovations in science and technology, protecting soldiers from improvised explosive devices, and understanding airline delays.Cyber Security Engineering, Adjunct
Rock Sabetto has worked in many roles during his engineering career, including technology researcher, adjunct professor, chief engineer, technology consultant, systems engineer, software and database developer, military officer, and undergraduate teaching assistant. Sabetto’s current research and analysis focuses on cloud computing security. As a George Mason adjunct, he leads the Cyber Security Engineering Capstone program in the Volgenau School of Engineering.
Professor, Director at the Center for Assurance Research & Engineering (CARE) Computer Science College of Engineering and Computing
Angelos Stavrou is the director of the Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE) at Mason. His current research interests include security and reliability for distributed systems, security principles for virtualization, and anonymity with a focus on building and deploying large-scale systems. Over the past few years, Stavrou's research has focused on two aspects of security: systems’ security and reliability.Associate Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
College of Engineering and ComputingKun Sun's research focuses on systems and network security. The main thrusts of his research include moving target defense, honeypot, Linux container security, forensic analysis of virtual machine, security on Internet of Things (IoT), side channel attacks, system resource isolation and access control, and password management. He has more than ten years working experience in both academia and industry. Degrees PhD, Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering and Computing
Kai Zeng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Volgenau School of Engineering. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Cyber Security Engineering. Prior to coming to Mason, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer and Information Science at University of Michigan - Dearborn and a postdoctoral scholar in the Computer Science Department at University of California, Davis (UCD).