Meet Our Faculty

  • 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
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Pei Dong

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, Energy, Water, Biomedical
  • Headshot of CEC associate dean Liza Wilson Durant

    Professor, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and 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 headshot of ECE professor Yariv Ephraim

    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.