Meet Our Faculty

Get to know our faculty

  • Mason CS professor Hakan Aydin

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer Systems, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Power-Aware Computing, Fault Tolerance
  • Mason assistant professor Foteini Baldimtsi

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Cryptography, privacy, and data security
  • Mason professor Daniel Barbara

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Databases
  • A place holder photo of the George Mason statue for the faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
  • Mason IST associate professor Mihai Boicu

    Associate Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Cognitive Systems, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Collective Intelligence/Crowd Sourcing, Abductive Reasoning, Wigmoreans Networks, Engineering Education
  • Mason professor Alex Brodsky

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Databases
  • CEC Admin Mike Bunting in a dark blue suit and green tie

    Assistant Dean for Research, College of Engineering and Computing; Director, Research Development for National Security

    Whole-person Psychological Assessment, Statistical Modeling, Psychometric Research including the construction and validation of assessment instruments and the measurement of knowledge, skills, abilities, traits, dispositions, and achievements, Cognitive Security and Operations in the Information Environment, AI/ML/HLT
  • Mason professor Jim Chen

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer Games Technology
  • Mason associate professor Songqing Chen

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer and Network Security, computer networks, computer systems, parallel and distributed systems, mobile computing
  • Mason IST assistant professor Olcay Ciftci

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities