Meet Our Faculty

  • Mason associate professor Jens-Peter Kaps

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Ultra-low-power cryptographic hardware design, side-channel analysis, computer arithmetic, efficient cryptographic algorithms, and ubiquitous computing
  • Professor Nathan Kathir

    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. 
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Khaled Khasawneh

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture support for security, malware detection, adversarial machine learning, and side channel attacks
  • Mason CEIE associate chair and associate professor Laura Kosoglu

    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, environmental geotechnics, electrokinetics, foundations.
  • Mason ECE professor and associate chair Pelin Kurtay

    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
  • Mason CEIE associate professor David Lattanzi

    Associate Professor; John Toups Faculty Fellow, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Robotics in smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence for structural engineering, and structural health modeling.
  • Mason ECE professor emeritus Alexander Levis

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Command and Control, Multi-formalism Modeling, System Architectures
  • Dr. Itamara Lochard from GMU

    Director of Cyber Policy Studies, College of Engineering and Computing

    Regularly presenting analyses on these data: irregular war, strategic communications, and cyber/ICT at various OSD, NATO, and UN fora
  • Mason electrical and computer engineering associate professor Craig Lorie

    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.