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 assistant professor Sadegh Torabi

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track; Research Fellow at CSIS

    Research Interests: Applied AI in operational cybersecurity, Security of emerging IoT/OT, and Internet Measurements
  • Mason IST department chair Özlem Uzuner

    Professor and Department Chair / Tenured

    Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science
  • Mason IST professor Diana Wang

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Educational Technology, E-Commerce, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Decision Support, IT Education, Distance Learning
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    Associate Professor / Tenured; Co-Director of MS INFS Program

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Human-Centered Computing, Immersive Systems
  • Mason IST assistant professor Lei Yang

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Science
  • Mason IST assistant professor Marcos Zampieri

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing