Potential Mentors for High School Research Experience

Space / Geospatial

Chaowei Phil Yang

Director, NSF Spatiotemporal IUCRC, Professor, Geography and GeoInformation Science (GGS), College of Science (COS), cyang3@gmu.edu  

Computing / Cybersecurity

Massimiliano Albanese 

Executive Director, IDIA, malbanes@gmu.edu

Research Computing

Alastair J. Neil 

Interim Director, Office of Research Computing (ORC), aneil2@gmu.edu

Biology / Environmental Science

Matt Rice 

Associate Professor, COS– mrice4@gmu.edu

Epidemiology / Public Health

Amira Roess

Professor, Global Health and Epidemiology, aroess@gmu.edu

Policy / Technology Policy

Fengxiu Zhang

Assistant Professor, Public policy, fzhang22@gmu.edu

Taylor Anderson

Associate Professor, GGS, tander6@gmu.edu 

Anusha Srirenganathan Malarvizhi

Post-Doc, Graduate Research Assistant, asrireng@gmu.edu

Armita Kar

Assistant Professor, GGS, akar3@gmu.edu 

Alireza Ermagun

Associate Professor, GGS, aermagun@gmu.edu 

John Qu

Professor, GGS, Director, Environmental Science and Technology Center, jqu@gmu.edu 

Dieter Pfoser

Professor and Department Chair, GGS, Director, Geospatial Intelligence, dpfoser@gmu.edu  

Lori A Mandable

Assistant Professor, GGS,  lmandabl@gmu.edu 

Maction Komwa

Associate Professor, GGS, mkomwa@gmu.edu 

Donglian Sun

Professor, GGS, dsun@gmu.edu 

Daniel Tong

Associate Professor and Director, Satellite and Earth Science Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, qtong@gmu.edu 

Christine Rosenfeld

Associate Professor, GGS, crosenfe@gmu.edu 

Paul Houser

Professor, GGS, Director,  Center for Resilient, Adaptable, and Safe Communities, phouser@gmu.edu 

Lance Sherry

Professor, Director for Air Transportation Systems Research, SEOR, lsherry@gmu.edu

John Friedrich Shortle

Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), jshortle@gmu.edu 

Jie Xu

Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research, CEIE Affiliate Faculty, jxu13@gmu.edu

 Wenying Ji

Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, wji2@gmu.edu 

 Shanjiang Zhu

Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, szhu3@gmu.edu 

Jenna R. Krall

Associate Professor, Global & Community Health, jkrall@gmu.edu

Hong Xue

Associate Professor, Health Administration & Policy, hxue4@gmu.edu

Karina Korostelina

Professor, Director Sustainable Peace Lab, ckoroste@gmu.edu

Daniel Rothbart

Professor, Program on Prevention of Mass Violence, drothbar@gmu.edu

Songqing Chen

Professor, Computer Science, sqchen@gmu.edu

Jie Zhang

Professor, Physics & Astronomy, jzhang7@gmu.edu

Sung Nam

Associate Professor & Director, Computer Game Design Program, snam5@gmu.edu