Meet Our Faculty

  • Mason CEIE Assistant Professor Wenying Ji

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Integration of advanced data analytics, and complex system simulation in construction management and infrastructure systems.
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Weiwen Jiang

    Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Hardware and software co-design
  • Jim Jones in a black suit and white shirt

    Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer and Network Security, Digital Forensics
  • SEOR associate professor Rochelle Jones

    Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Distance education and mobile learning
  • Mason mechanical engineering assistant professor Pilgyu Kang

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Bioengineering and ECE affiliate faculty

    Research Interests: Sensors, micro/nano mechanics
  • Mason associate professor Jens-Peter Kaps

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Ultra-low-power cryptographic hardware design, side-channel analysis, computer arithmetic, efficient cryptographic algorithms, and ubiquitous computing
  • Professor Nathan Kathir

    Professor and Director of Senior Projects, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research interests: Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), vulnerability assessments and mitigations, probabilistic risk evaluation and risk management, security engineering, blast modeling and mitigation of effects, facilities engineering, and facilities management. 
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Khaled Khasawneh

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture support for security, malware detection, adversarial machine learning, and side channel attacks
  • Mason CEIE associate chair and associate professor Laura Kosoglu

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair; Director of CEIE Graduate Program, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, soil-structure interaction, clay surface science, environmental geotechnics, electrokinetics, foundations.
  • Mason ECE professor and associate chair Pelin Kurtay

    Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Pelin Kurtay is the recipient of the 2015 Teacher of Distinction Award at George Mason University for exceptional teaching and commitment to teaching-related activities in electrical and computer engineering and Information technology