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  • Mason IST professor Ioulia Rytikova
    Ioulia Rytikova

    Professor / Teaching
    Associate Chair for Graduate Studies; Director of Online MS AIT Program

    Research Interests: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Educational Data Mining, Data Sciences, Personalized Learning, STEM Education, Health Information Technologies, Operations Research, and Engineering
  • Mason assistant professor Abolfazl Safikhani wears a blue suit and light shirt in his faculty profile
    Abolfazl Safikhani

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Network modeling, high-dimensional statistics, spatio-temporal models, unsupervised learning (change point detection, clustering), random forest.
  • Mason IST Professor Kamaljeet Sanghera
    Kamaljeet Sanghera

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Personalized learning
  • Mason CS professor Sanjeev Setia
    Sanjeev Setia

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer systems and networks
  • Mason CS professor Amarda Shehu
    Amarda Shehu

    Inaugural VP and Chief AI Officer, Associate Dean for AI Innovation in the CEC, Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Representation Learning, Generative AI,  Language Models, AI-enabled Scientific Discovery
  • Mason professor Robert Simon a plaid-blue shirt and glasses
    Robert Simon

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Wireless sensor networks, mobile networking, performance analysis, robotic cooperation
  • Mason school of computing dean Gurdip Singh
    Gurdip Singh

    Divisional Dean, School of Computing

    Research Interests: Real-time embedded systems, sensor networks, network protocols, distributed computing
  • Mason CS associate professor Mark Snyder
    Mark Snyder

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer Science Education, Computer Systems
  • Mason CS assistant professor Shvetha Soundararajan
    Shvetha Soundararajan

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Agile Transformation, Software Metrics, Software Quality Assessment and Prediction, User Experience Research, Requirements Engineering, Educational Technology, Computer Science Education, and Software Architecture
  • CS professor Greg Stein has long blonde hair and wears a blue, collared shirt
    Gregory Stein

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning