College of Engineering and Computing

At Mason, Art Pyster is a professor of systems engineering, but his primary role is associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC)

Research Interests: Multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification, disaster planning and response, sustainability, network algorithms, transportation systems optimization, intermodal and freight transport, supply chains, public transit and alternative modes.

Research Interests: Fatigue and Fracture, electrochemistry and corrosion, computational materials, reliability, thermodynamics and heat transfer, failure mechanics.

Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, swarm robots, bio-inspired robots, distributed resource allocation

Research Interests: Distance education and mobile learning

Research Interests: The application of Operations Research to problems related to healthcare and public policy

Research Interests: Statistical computing, extreme value theory, biometric human recognition.

Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, geometric data analysis, machine learning, extreme value theory

Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, deep learning, complex systems and simulation, numerical optimization, intelligent transportation systems

Research Interests: Stochastic optimization, distributionally robust optimization, chance-constrained programming, and uncertainty quantification, and data-driven decision-making.