Meet Our Faculty

Get to know our faculty

  • Mason statistics chair Jiayang Sun

    Professor, Bernard Dunn Eminent Scholar, and Chair; Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, statistics for big or high-dimensional data, simultaneous inference, multiple comparisons, selection bias, measurement errors, mixtures, causal inference, semi and nonparametric analysis, machine learning, biostatistics, random fields, crowdsourcing, EHR and Text analysis, the interface of statistics and computer science, and other interdisciplinary work.
  • Mason IST professor Kun Sun

    Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Trustworthy computing environment, moving target defense, AI/ML security, smartphone security, software-defined networking, and software security.
  • Mason associate professor Clifton Sutton

    Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Classification and regression, robust statistical inference, biometric identification.
  • Mason CS profressor Gheorghe Tecuci

    Professor and Director of the Learning Agents Center; Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Data Mining, Decision Support Systems, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Big Data, Personalized Learning, Educational Data Mining, Expert Systems
  • Mason professor in practice Gail Therrien

    Professor of Practice, Department of Information Sciences and Technology

    Research Interests: Women in Technology, Technology Education, Learning Analytics, Robotics, Cybersecurity
  • Mason IST assistant professor Sadegh Torabi

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Internet measurements, security of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Security of the EV Charging Ecosystem, Malicious Internet/Network traffic analysis and characterization, Malware/Ransomware detection and analysis
  • Mason IST department chair Özlem Uzuner

    Professor, Department Chair / Tenured

    Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science.
  • Mason professor Anand Vidyashankar

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Bioinformatics and biopharmaceutical statistics, robust inference, branching process, risk theory.
  • Mason IST professor Diana Wang

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: E-Commerce, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR) Evaluation, Decision Making Support, IT Education, and Distance Education.
  • Mason statistics professor Lily Wang

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Non/semi-parametric regression, methodologies for functional data, spatiotemporal data, survey sampling, high dimensional data analysis.