Meet Our Faculty

  • Paulo Costa wears glasses, a lanyard, and a gray shirt

    Professor and Chair, Department of Cyber Security Engineering | Director, Center of Excellence in C5I

    Research Interests: Probabilistic Ontologies, Decision Support Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Fusion, and Cyber-Physical Systems Security
  • Professor and Director of MARC Missy Cummings

    Professor and Director of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC); First American Bank Chair

    Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center
  • Mason bioengineering assistant professor Holger Dannenberg

    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Mechanisms and functions underlying the formation of memory and memory-guided navigation with a focus on the septohippocampal brain circuitry
  • Mechanical engineering associate professor Pei Dong

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, Energy, Water, Biomedical
  • Headshot of CEC associate dean Liza Wilson Durant

    Professor, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement

    Research Interest: Environmental Engineering
  • Mason associate professor Hadi El-Almine

    Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: The application of Operations Research to problems related to healthcare and public policy
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Zelalem Eshete

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • SEOR assistant professor Tianshu Feng

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research interests: Machine learning and statistical modeling, explainable AI, model fairness and robustness, data exploration, and active learning.
  • Mason associate professor Jair Ferrari

    Associate Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, C4I Systems, Business Administration
  • GM Civil Engineering Professor Celso Ferreira

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Water-related extreme weather hazards, their impacts on infrastructure and societies, and nature-based climate adaptation strategies.