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Information Sciences and Technology

  • Zinat Ara, IST PhD student at Mason, wears a paisley-printed, pink blouse in her profile.
    Research Interests: Data-driven HCI, Machine learning
  • Mason Cyber Security Engineering assistant professor Tanvir Arafin

    Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Hardware Security, Memory Systems
  • Mason bioengineering professor Giorgio Ascoli

    Distinguished University Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Investigating the relationship between brain structure, activity, and function from the cellular level to the circuit level
  • Mason assistant professor Johnathan Auerbach wears a white, collared-shirt and has brown hair and a beard in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, causal inference, survey methods, longitudinal data, official statistics, open data, citizen science/crowdsourcing/participatory government, urban analytics, public policy.
  • Hussna Azamy wears a pink collared shirt and dark blazer

    Instructor, Department of Information Sciences and Technology

    Research Interests: Application security, penetration testing, threat modeling, risk assessment, secure architecture, and emerging areas like GenAI security
  • Mason professor Daniel Barbara

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Databases
  • Elijah Bass, a black IST PhD student at Mason, has a beard and wears a gray suit and light shirt in his profile.
    Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Malware Reverse Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, 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
  • Cyber Security Engineering professor Peggy Brouse

    Professor, SEOR; Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Cost Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling