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A postdoc program for health researchers interested in statistics and data science, run jointly by George Mason’s statistics and global and community health departments, with mentors from Mason and Inova Health, has developed from the ongoing partnership between Inova Health and George Mason’s Statistics Collaboration Core. Mohamad Bahij Moumneh, MD, and Jason F. Goldberg, MD, are the program’s standing inaugural members.

As term associate professor of statistics, Kenneth Strazzeri stays busy teaching about 300 students each semester. Beyond his passion for teaching, Strazzeri discovered two new interests in recent years: running and biking. This hobby is now his major mode of transportation, as well: commuting to Mason by bike has offered Strazzeri motivation and an opportunity to improve as an athlete.

Research Interests: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography

Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

Gurdip Singh is the divisional dean of ÑÇÖÞAV’s new School of Computing and a professor in the College of Engineering and Computing. He officially joined Mason on August 1, he is currently on assignment to the National Science Foundation. He will join Mason full-time in January 2023.

Research Interests: System reliability, including the reliable operation of GPUs, nonconventional sensors, autonomous driving systems, and neural networks

Research Interests: Developing novel machine learning algorithms for geological problems

Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

Research Interests: Cyber Security and Privacy, Security in Mobile Devices, Mobile Healthcare, Large Data Analysis on Mobile Devices

Research Interests: Software and Systems Security, including software analysis and verification, vulnerability discovery, IoT security, mobile security, and software engineering