Faculty

Primary Faculty

  • A headshot of Robert Pettit standing outside and wearing a light blue collard shirt, a suit jacket, and patterned neck tie.
    Robert Pettit

    Professor of Practice and Associate Chair (Graduate), Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Software engineering, software design, real-time embedded software, mission-critical software, spaceflight software
  • Headshot of assistant professor David J. Porfirio
    David Porfirio

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, end-user development, AI planning, interaction design
  • Mason associate professor Michael S. Reep
    Michael Reep

    Associate Professor (Teaching), Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Software engineering, Agile in federal government, disciplined Agile
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    Heidi Reichert

    Assistant Professor (Teaching), Department of Computer Science

    Research interests: computer science education, generative AI and large language models, human-computer interaction, affective computing
  • Mason CS associate professor Dana Richards
    Dana Richards

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • A photo of CS associate professor Katherine (Raven) Russell standing outside in front of a building and wearing a purple cardigan.
    Katherine (Raven) Russell

    Associate Professor (Teaching), Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Large-scale ad-hoc networks, delay/disruption tolerant networks, Named Data Networking
  • A headshot of CS professor Sanjeev Setia smiling and wearing a blue, plaid, collared shirt.
    Sanjeev Setia

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Computer systems and networks
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    Maha Shamseddine

    Associate Professor (Teaching), Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Network security, machine learning, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking
  • A headshot of CS professor Amarda Shehu
    Amarda Shehu

    Inaugural VP and Chief AI Officer; Associate Dean for Research; Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, foundation models, representation learning, generative AI, language models, AI-enabled scientific discovery
  • A headshot of School of Computing dean Gurdip Singh wearing a navy suit jacket, a light blue shirt and a striped red tie.
    Gurdip Singh

    Divisional Dean, School of Computing

    Research Interests: Real-time embedded systems, sensor networks, network protocols, distributed computing