Meet Our Faculty

  • Mason Bioengineering professor Siddhartha Sikdar

    Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Biomechanics, Assistive Technology, Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Modeling, Neuroengineering, Neuroprosthetics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Sensorimotor Integration, Ultrasound
  • Ariela Sofer wears a blue blazer and has dark, red hair in her faculty profile

    Divisional Dean for the Volgenau School of Engineering Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research College of Engineering and Computing

    Ariela Sofer is the Divisional Dean for the VSE and a professor in SEOR.
  • Mason assistant professor Vadim Sokolov wears a light-blue, striped shirt in his profile and has brown hair

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research; CEIE Affiliate Faculty

    Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, deep learning, complex systems and simulation, numerical optimization, intelligent transportation systems
  • Mason ECE associate professor Tolga Soyata

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming
  • 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.
  • Mason associate professor Burak Tanyu wears a blue collared shirt and stands in a library for his faculty profile

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

    Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • SEOR and mechanical engineering professor Janis Terpenny

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design and manufacturing and on design education.
  • Kuo Tian in a gray suit for a faculty profile for the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering.

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

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • Girum Urgessa wears a blue suit for his faculty profile in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering.

    Associate Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing

    Research Interests: Structural response for air-blast, impact, progressive collapse, and underwater explosion, fiber-reinforced polymer composites in structures, engineering education and workforce development.
  • Mason assistant professor Remi Veneziano

    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Designing and synthesizing new composite nanomaterials, combining structured 3D DNA nanoparticles with proteins, and lipids