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 Sherif Hashem

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
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    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Machine Learning, Urban Computing, Intelligent Transportation, Spatial-Temporal Data Mining and Prediction, Online Misinformation Mining and Detection
  • Mason IST associate professor Irina Hashmi

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Machine learning, data mining, evolutionary computation, and stochastic optimization techniques to solve complex biological problems.
  • Mason IST associate professor Hoda Hassan

    Associate Professor / Teaching

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

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: HCI, Human-AI Collaboration, Human-in-the-loop, Explainable AI, Steerable AI, CSCW
  • Mason IST professor Joy Hughes

    Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: AI & ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Mason IST professor Khondkar Islam

    Professor / Teaching Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies  

    Research Interests: Computer networks, Cybersecurity, Learning analytics, IT education
  • 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
  • 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.