Meet Our Faculty

Faculty

  • Missy Cummings wears a black shirt and has light-brown hair in her faculty profile for the CEC at M
    Missy Cummings

    Professor, and Director of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

    Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI
  • Mason bioengineering assistant professor Holger Dannenberg wears a navy blue suit and white shirt in his faculty profile
    Holger Dannenberg

    Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Computing

    Research Interests: Mechanisms and functions underlying the formation of memory and memory-guided navigation with a focus on the septohippocampal brain circuitry
  • Liza Wilson Durant

    Professor, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Community Engagement, College of Engineering and Computing

    Building meaningful partnerships across the university with external corporate, government, academic, non-profit, and global entities to support the mission of the College of Engineering and Computing and the strategic objectives of George Mason University.
  • Mason assistant professor Hadi El-Almine wears a light-blue, collared shirt and has dark hair in his profile
    Hadi El-Amine

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: The application of Operations Research to problems related to healthcare and public policy
  • Mason ECE professor Yariv Ephraim wears a light-blue shirt and glasses in his faculty profile
    Yariv Ephraim

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Detection and Estimation, Statistical Signal Processing
  • Mason assistant professor Alireza Ermagun wears a gray suit, black glasses, and black hair
    Alireza Ermagun

    Director of Mobility Observatory and Data Analytics Lab and an Assistant Professor; Affiliate Faculty

    Alireza Ermagun is the Director of Mobility Observatory and Data Analytics Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science and Affiliate Faculty in the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University.
  • Zelalem Eshete wears a light suit and shirt in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
    Zelalem Eshete

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Tianshu Feng in a blue suit and tie and silver-framed glasses for his faculty profile at George Mason University.
    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.
  • Kirin Furst in a dark-blue suit and blouse in her faculty profile for the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering.
    Kirin Emlet Furst

    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests: Identify engineering and policy strategies to mitigate health risks posed by contaminant mixtures in drinking water
  • Kris Gaj wears a dark polo shirt in his faculty profile for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Krzysztof 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.