Meet Our Faculty

Faculty

  • Nathan Kathir wears a dark-blue suit and striped tie in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

    Associate Professor and Director of Senior Projects, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research interests: Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), vulnerability assessments and mitigations, probabilistic risk evaluation and risk management, security engineering, blast modeling and mitigation of effects, facilities engineering, and facilities management. 
  • Khaled Khasawneh wears a blue, button-down shirt in his faculty profile at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture support for security, malware detection, adversarial machine learning, and side channels attacks.
  • Mason bioengineering assistant professor Eugene Kim wears a light-blue shirt, navy blue tie and smiles in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Computing

    Research Interests: Developing protein-based biomaterials using microbial platforms for the production of strong underwater bioadhesives and biocomposites
  • Mason civil engineering associate chair Laura Kosoglu weras a navy blue blouse and blazer in her faculty profile

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Director of CEIE Graduate Program, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Clay Surface Science and Clay Behavior, Environmental Geotechnics, Electrokinetics, Foundations
  • Pelin Kurtay wears a striped cardigan, white blouse, and glasses in her faculty profile at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Pelin Kurtay is the recipient of the 2015 Teacher of Distinction Award at George Mason University for exceptional teaching and commitment to teaching-related activities in electrical and computer engineering and Information technology.
  • Alexander Levis

    Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Volgenau

    Alexander H. Levis is University Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering. From 2001 to 2004 he served as the Chief Scientist of the U. S. Air Force at the Pentagon on leave from the university. He was educated at Ripon College where he received the AB degree (1963) in Mathematics and Physics and then at MIT where he received the BS (1963), MS (1965), ME (1967), and Sc.D. (1968) degrees in Mechanical Engineering with control systems as his area of specialization.
  • Mason professor Qiliang Li wears a light shirt in his faculty profile at his lab

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Electronics, Intelligent Sensor Systems, Chemical Sensors
  • Mason associate professor Craig Lorie wearing a green, collared-shirt in his faculty profile

    Term Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer Networks and Architectures
  • Mason associate professor Songjun Luo wears a navy-blue suit and light shirt in his profile

    Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Songjun Luo enjoys sharing his experience in applying analytical approaches to business problems with students.
  • Mason associate professor Viviana Maggioni wears a striped blouse and glasses in her faculty profile

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

    Research Interests: Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Land Surface Modeling, Uncertainty Analysis, Land Data Assimilation Systems