Meet Our Faculty

  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Kuo Tian

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

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Girum Urgessa

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

    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
  • Mason CEIE professor Mohan Venigalla

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

    Research Interests: Transportation systems analysis and planning with an emphasis on sustainable transportation, air quality, transit, shared mobility, and urban freight planning.
  • Mason ECE professor Kathleen Wage

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research interests: Signal and array processing, underwater acoustics, and engineering education
  • Mason interim provost and executive vice president Kenneth Walsh

    Kenneth Walsh, PhD

    Interim Provost and Executive Vice President
    Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

     

    Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure
  • Mason cyber security engineering professor Zhengdao Wang

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Signal Processing, Communications, Information Theory
  • GMU associate professor Mingkui Wei profile

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer network and web application security
  • Bioengineering associate professor Qi Wei

    Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Computer Simulation and Modeling, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Biomechanics, Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Modeling, Rehabilitation Engineering, Sensorimotor Integration
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Charles White

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Mechanics and material behavior.