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 Diana Wang

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: E-Commerce, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR) Evaluation, Decision Making Support, IT Education, and Distance Education.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Zhisheng Yan

    Associate Professor / Tenured
    Co-Director of MS INFS Program

    Research Interests: Systems and security issues of immersive computing systems, such as VR, AR, imaging, and video systems.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Lei Yang

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Applied Machine Learning, Hardware/Software Co-Exploration for Neural Network Architectures, Embedded Systems
  • Mason IST assistant professor Marcos Zampieri

    Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

    Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing