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Information Sciences and Technology

  • Hung-Mao Chen, IST PhD student at Mason, wears sunglasses, a black hoodie, and green jacket while standing on a pier.
    Hung-Mao (Rafael) Chen
    Research Interests: Software/System Security, Vulnerability detection, Program analysis
  • A place holder photo of the George Mason statue for a profile.
    Tommy Chin
    Research Interests: Software supply chain attacks and networking
  • Ahnaf Atef Choudhury, IST PhD student at Mason, wears a gray, plaid suit and blue tie in his profile.
    Ahnaf Atef Choudhury
    Research Interests: Data Science, Applied Machine Learning, Image Processing, Medical Informatics, Natural Language Processing
  • Mason IST assistant professor Olcay Ciftci
    Olcay Ciftci

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Paulo Costa wears glasses, a lanyard, and a gray shirt
    Paulo Costa

    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
    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
  • A smiling Sanchari Das
    Sanchari Das

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Security and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • Headshot of CEC associate dean Liza Wilson Durant
    Liza Wilson Durant

    Professor, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement

    Research Interest: Environmental Engineering
  • Michael Eagle wears a gray suit, light-blue shirt and glasses
    Michael Eagle

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Educational Data Mining, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Video Games, Human-Centered Data Science, AI/ML
  • Huining Feng, IST PhD student at Mason, wears a white shirt and sits in front of a wooded background in her profile.
    Huining Feng
    Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Security and Privacy, User Interface Design