Faculty directory of ISE department

Full Time Faculty

Name & Website Rank & Degree Research
Paul Ammann Associate Professor; PhD, University of Virginia, 1988 Software testing, fault tolerance, reliability, formal methods for secure information systems
Daniel Barbará Professor; PhD, Princeton University, 1985 Data mining and its applications, the detection of anomalies and outliers in various data types such as images, and spatial and temporal records
Alex Brodsky Associate Professor; PhD, Hebrew University, 1991 Decision guidance systems and adaptive enterprise optimization, constraint programming and databases, inference channels and information sharing in secure information systems
Carlotta Domeniconi Assistant Professor; PhD, University of California Riverside, 2002 Machine learning, pattern classification, data mining, neural networks
Hassan Gomaa Professor and Department Chair; PhD, Imperial College, London University, 1976 Software engineering, real-time and distributed software design, software product line architectures, software performance engineering, software agents
Xuxian Jiang Assistant Professor; PhD, Purdue University, 2006 System and network security, virtualization technology, and distributed computing
Larry Kerschberg Professor; PhD, Case Western Reserve University, 1969 Intelligent Search, E-Business, Agent-Based Systems and Semantic Web
Jessica Lin Assistant Professor; PhD, University of California Riverside, 2005 Data mining, machine learning, time series visualization, streaming data and anomaly detection
Sam Malek Assistant Professor; PhD, University of Southern California, 2007 Architecture-based software development and deployment, embedded and distributed systems, middleware solutions, quality of service analysis
Amihai Motro Professor; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1981 User interfaces to databases, uncertainty management in information systems, integrity and security of databases, multiple database environments
Jeff Offutt Professor; PhD, Georgia Tech, 1988 Software testing and analysis, formal methods, change-impact analysis, web software engineering
Edgar H. Sibley University Professor, Eminent Scholar; Sc.D., MITech, 1967 Information systems policy, organizational informatics
João Pedro Sousa Assistant Professor; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005 Software architecture, artificial intelligence, self-aware/adaptive systems and human factors for ubiquitous computing
Angelos Stavrou Assistant Professor; PhD, Columbia University, 2007 Large systems security and survivability, secure peer-to-peer and overlay networking using trust, distributed systems reliability, fairness and statistical inference
Duminda Wijesekera Associate Professor; PhD, Cornell University (Logic), 1990; PhD, University of Minnesota (Computer Science), 1998 Security, multimedia, networks, control and signalling (telecom, railway and SCADA, defensive missiles), web and logic in computer science
Xinyuan (Frank) Wang Assistant Professor, PhD, North Carolina State University, 2004 Network security, intrusion source tracing, active intrusion response

Emeritus Professors

  • Richard Baum, Associate Professor of Information Systems

Courtesy Appointments

  • Amitava Dutta, LeRoy Eakin Chair, Professor of MIS & Operations Management,
    School of Management, George Mason University

Adjunct Faculty

  • Nick Duan, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1994.  TRW, Inc

  • Andrew Gravatt, M.S., John Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, 1999.  INDUS Corporation

  • Yih-Feng Hwang, PhD, George Mason University, 1997.  Verizon, VA

  • John F. Masiyowski, M.S., George Mason University, 2001.  Raytheon Company

  • Kenneth Nidiffer, D. Sc., George Washington University, 1988.  Northrup-Grumman Corporation

  • Robert G. Pettit, IV, PhD, George Mason University, 2003.  The Aerospace Corporation

  • Edward A. Schneider, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1976.  Institute for Defense Analyses

  • Michael D. Smeltzer, PhD, Yale University, 1976. Northrop Grumman

  • Ken Smith, PhD, University of Illinois, 1992.  The MITRE Corporation 

  • Ye Wu, PhD, State University of New York at Albany, 2000. SAIC

Last updated: Fall 2007