Meet Our Faculty

  • 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
  • Headshot of CEC associate dean Liza Wilson Durant

    Professor, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Community Engagement

    Research Interest: Environmental Engineering.
  • Mason assistant professor Hadi El-Almine

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: The application of Operations Research to problems related to healthcare and public policy
  • A place holder photo of the George Mason statue for the faculty profile

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Detection and Estimation, Statistical Signal Processing
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Zelalem Eshete

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • SEOR assistant professor Tianshu Feng

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research interests: Machine learning and statistical modeling, explainable AI, model fairness and robustness, data exploration, and active learning.
  • Mason associate professor Jair Ferrari

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, C4I Systems, Business Administration
  • CEIE assistant professor Kirin Furst

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research interests: Water treatment and wastewater reuse, distribution system and tap water quality, fate and transport of wastewater tracers and emerging contaminants, including PFAS.
  • Mason ECE professor Kris Gaj

    Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer and network security, cryptography, VLSI and embedded systems.