Meet Our Faculty

  • Mason interim provost and executive vice president Kenneth Walsh

    Kenneth Walsh, PhD

    Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Chief of Staff, Office of the President

    Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure
  • Mason assistant professor Xuan Wang

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, resilient multi-robot systems, distributed resource allocation, human-in-the-loop for MAS
  • Mason cyber security engineering professor Zhengdao Wang

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Signal Processing, Communications, Information Theory
  • GMU associate professor Mingkui Wei profile

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer network and web application security
  • Bioengineering associate professor Qi Wei

    Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Computer Simulation and Modeling, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Biomechanics, Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Modeling, Rehabilitation Engineering, Sensorimotor Integration
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Charles White

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Mechanics and material behavior.
  • Mason CYSE Professor Duminda Wijesekera

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering and Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Safety and security of networked control systems overall and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Next G-based Edge services, building digital twins and vulnerability detection, and mitigation and applying formal methods to ensure cyber security
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    Director of Programs and Research, Deputy Title IX Coordinator; Office of Outreach, Student Success, and Engagement (OSSE)

    Christi Wilcox is a higher education professional with extensive experience in cross-collaboration between higher education, community, corporate, and foundation partners.
  • GM SEOR professor Ju Xie wears glasses and a light shirt

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Air Transportation, Data Mining, Optimization, Probabilistic Modeling, Simulation, Systems Architecture, Predictive Analytics
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Ningshi Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation