Faculty

Primary Faculty

Our faculty members instruct students, guide them, and make them partners in advanced research projects. They combine practical experience with in-depth scholarly activities to advance the department's mission.

  • Mason IST professor Aditya Johri

    Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Technology Ethics, Technology & Society, Engineering, and Computing Education
  • IST assistant professor Kazi Kabir

    Assistant Professor/Teaching

    Research Interests: Data Mining & Machine Learning in Computational Biology & Structural Bioinformatics
  • Tariq Kamal has a long, black beard

    Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sciences and Technology

    Research Interests: AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud-computing in agriculture and healthcare
  • Mason IST assistant professor Myeong Lee

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Data science for social good, which aims to solve social problems through data-driven approaches.
  • Mason IST Instructor Scott Lewis

    Instructor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Mason IST associate professor Lindi Liao

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing, data science, self-driving cars, computer vision, visualization, 3D/VR/AR, and geospatial computing.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Kevin Lybarger

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Michael Lyons wears a gray suit, tie, and glasses in his faculty profile for the IST department at George Mason University.

    Instructor/Teaching

    Research Interests: Hardware implementations of cryptographic algorithms.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Emanuela Marasco

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • A well-styled Nora McDonald in a white shirt and red lipstick

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Human Centered Computing, Digital Privacy