Meet Our Faculty

  • Volgenau Divisional Dean Ariela Sofer

    Divisional Dean for the Volgenau School of Engineering; Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Ariela Sofer is the Divisional Dean for the Volgenau School of Engineering and a professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research department.
  • Mason associate professor Vadim Sokolov wears a blue striped shirt

    Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research; CEIE Affiliate Faculty

    Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, deep learning, complex systems and simulation, numerical optimization, intelligent transportation systems
  • Mason ECE associate professor Tolga Soyata

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Burak Tanyu

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

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • SEOR and mechanical engineering professor Janis Terpenny

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research and Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design, manufacturing, and design education.
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Kuo Tian

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

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • GM CEIE professor Girum Urgessa

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

    Research Interests: Structural response for air-blast, impact, progressive collapse, and underwater explosion, fiber-reinforced polymer composites in structures, engineering education and workforce development.
  • GM associate professor Remi Veneziano

    Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

    Research Interests: Designing and synthesizing new composite nanomaterials, combining structured 3D DNA nanoparticles with proteins, and lipids
  • Mason CEIE professor Mohan Venigalla

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

    Research Interests: Transportation systems analysis and planning with an emphasis on sustainable transportation, air quality, transit, shared mobility, and urban freight planning.
  • Mason ECE professor Kathleen Wage

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research interests: Signal and array processing, underwater acoustics, and engineering education