Ioulia Rytikova

Dr. Ioulia Rytikova believes that potential students come from all types of backgrounds, needs, and requirements. She says IST faculty are a dedicated team that makes sure every student has the tools and means to get the most out of their education and succeed.

Rytikova is a professor in the Information Sciences and Technology department at George Mason University. She received her BS/MS degree in Automated Control Systems Engineering and Information Processing and her PhD in Automated Control Systems from the National University of Science and Technology. Though her research interests are in the areas of data science, educational data mining, machine learning, and optimization, her passion is in the field of cognitive learning and learning sciences and analytics, which allows her to develop innovative teaching techniques to support a research-based, student-centered active-learning environment in the classroom to better assist her students. In over 15 years of her career in higher education, both in the US and Europe, she acquired significant work experience in providing leadership in the areas of innovative teaching and learning, instructional design, and distance education in a variety of STEM disciplines. Dr. Rytikova is the recipient of several prestigious teaching awards, including the 2021 Online Teaching Excellence Award, the 2020 Mason Teachers of Distinction Award, and the School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award.

ORCID: 0000-0002-0809-2195

Grants

2018-2019: Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program

2017-2018: Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program

2016-2018: GMU OSCAR scholarly development grant "Integrating Research Experiences into Undergraduate Curriculum"

Degrees

• PhD, Automated Control Systems, National University of Science and Technology
• BS/MS, Automated Control Systems Engineering and Information Processing, National University of Science and Technology