Meet Our Faculty

Get to know our faculty

  • Mason IST associate professor Hadi Rezazad
    Hadi Rezazad

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Mason CS associate professor Dana Richards
    Dana Richards

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Mason assistant professor Nicholas Rios stands for a headshot photo in front of the Nguyen Engineering building.
    Nicholas Rios

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Functional data analysis, computational statistics, Gaussian process modeling, models for compositional data analysis.
  • Mason Professor William Rosenberger
    William Rosenberger

    Distinguished University Professor, Statistics

    Research Interests: Biostatistics, modern inference, probability theory, stochastic processes.
  • Mason department chair David Rosenblum
    David S. Rosenblum

    Professor and Department Chair; Planning Research Corporation (PRC) Chair, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Software engineering, distributed systems, networks, and AI
  • A place holder photo of the George Mason statue for the faculty profile
    Katherine Russell

    Instructional Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Multiagent systems, swarm intelligence, and multi robotics
  • Mason IST professor Ioulia Rytikova
    Ioulia Rytikova

    Professor / Teaching
    Associate Chair for Graduate Studies; Director of Online MS AIT Program

    Research Interests: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Educational Data Mining, Data Sciences, Personalized Learning, STEM Education, Health Information Technologies, Operations Research, and Engineering
  • Mason assistant professor Abolfazl Safikhani wears a blue suit and light shirt in his faculty profile
    Abolfazl Safikhani

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Network modeling, high-dimensional statistics, spatio-temporal models, unsupervised learning (change point detection, clustering), random forest.
  • Mason IST Professor Kamaljeet Sanghera
    Kamaljeet Sanghera

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Personalized learning
  • Mason CS professor Sanjeev Setia
    Sanjeev Setia

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer systems and networks