Prospective 2025 ASSIP Mentors
Select 1, 2, or 3 prospective 2025 mentors for your ASSIP application. Carefully read the linked information on this to match your interests. Previous intern research abstracts are published in Mason's open-access Journal of Student Scientist' Research (JSSR) where you can find out more about past projects. Some mentors publish certain abstracts in other journals; not all abstracts are in JSSR.
Prospective 2025 ASSIP Mentors
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Climate Science, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Oceanography.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Project Overview: Our research focuses on climate change across both past and present time periods, with an emphasis on tropical climate variations related to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and monsoon systems. These projects aim to improve our understanding of tropical climate dynamics and their impact on global climate patterns. Preferred Skills (not required): (1) Proficiency in coding (e.g., Python, MATLAB), (2) data analysis skills, especially with climate datasets. Learn more our lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/xiaojing-du/
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Bioengineering
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Biomedical data analytics, computational biomechanics, medical image analysis, applied machine learning.
Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research Interests: protein-protein interactions; cancer therapeutics; drug design.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: cancer research invasion and metastasis, human disease, proteomics, biologic signaling networks, bioengineering inventing new technologies.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus.
Center for Spatial Information Systems and Science
Format: Fully remote
Research interests: Cyber infrastructure, geoinformatics, deep learning, agricultural remote sensing, image classification
Format: Fully in-person
Research interests: AI/Machine learning, remote sensing, climate change, smart agriculture, cyber infrastructure, geoinformation science
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Protein Design, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Computational Protein Design, Peptide Materials
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: synthesis of solid state inorganic materials.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Electrochemistry of innovative materials, energy conversion and storage, catalysis and sensing.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: fungi-based self-healing concrete, decarbonized construction material, waste cycling
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Catalina Del Pilar Gonzalez Duenas
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Multi-hazard risk and resilience assessment, Physics-Informed AI, Nature-Based Engineering, Hurricane-Induced Debris.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Computational and Data Sciences
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Modeling and Simulation, Data Science, and Agent-Based Simulation. Learn more at our center and lab websites (https://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/) and (https://hamdikavak.com/).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Computer Science
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Software Engineering. With a focus on Software Testing and Analysis, AI and Software Engineering, Software Evolution, and Software Dependability. Learn more at my lab website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~winglam/.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: machine learning, deep learning, optimization, foundation models, distributed/parallel computation.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: robot planning, machine learning. Learn more at my lab website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~gjstein/.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: RRobotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning. Learn more at my lab website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/RobotiXX/lab.html.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Mason Square (Arlington) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: theoretical computer science, particularly, scheduling with predication and energy-efficient scheduling algorithms, hybrid quantum computing for optimization problems
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Security and Privacy; VR Security; Decentralized Finance; Side Channels. Learn more at my lab website: https://mainarke.github.io.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Wireless networks, Machine learning for wireless and mobile systems, wireless and mobile sensing, wireless sensing and perception for robots.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Computer Science (cont.)
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: 1) Autonomous driving systems/Autonomous vehicles; reliability/safety/dependability study. 2) System efforts to improve Federated learning. 3) High-performance computing (HPC) reliability. 4) GPU reliability.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Security and Privacy; Web3 Security; Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Security; Smart Contract Security. Please visit my website: https://mainarke.github.io/ to learn more.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Natural language processing, language models, human-AI interaction, explainable AI. Students are expected to be familiar with Python programming and having good mathematics background. My personal webpage is https://ziyuyao.org/.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: sustainable open source software communities, AI-enabled software tools, software engineering for AI-enabled systems
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Algorithms
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: immersive video streaming, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, and the Internet of Things
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Cyber Security Engineering
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Keywords: Artificial Intelligence for Hardware Security, Reverse Engineering, Security of Mobile Robots. Skill sets required: Programming knowledge in C/C++ and/or Python is a must. Learn more at my lab website: https://tanvirarafin.github.io.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research Interests: Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, Energy Harvesting and Storage, Quantum, AI Hardware, Logic and Memory. Learn more at my lab website: https://masonnano.wixsite.com/ethanahn
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Environmental Science and Policy
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: aquatic invertebrate ecology, snails, crabs, parasites, field survey, laboratory experiments, animal husbandry.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Potomac Science Center (Woodbridge).
Finance, School of Business
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: blockchain; Econ-CS; skills: (one of) data analytics, computer science, finance, or mathematical modeling.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Economics of AI, Market Structure, Investments, Corporate Finance, FinTech. Learn more at my website: https://sites.google.com/view/lei-gao/home.
Forensic Science
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week).
Research interests: Use of Drone technology.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Geography and Geoinformation Science
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Multi-spectral object detection; modeling of space weather impacts on critical infrastructure (electricity and telecom networks); Modeling climate-hazard impacts on critical infrastructure.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Xianjun Hao
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: remote sensing applications, climate change.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Climate Science, Remote Sensing, Wildland Fires, Soil Moisture and Drought, Clean Energy, Water and Food Security, Water-Energy-Food-Health (WEFH) Nexus. Learn more at our department and center websites: (https://ggs.gmu.edu) and (http://estc.gmu.edu).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Spatiotemporal Computing, HPC, GIS, and GeoInformatics. ASSIP fellows will participate in NSF Spatiotemporal I/UCRC projects of their choice at (www.stcenter.net).
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Climate Resilience, Human Mobility, Data Analytics, Environmental Justice, Urban Transformation, Technology Adaptation, Infrastructure Equity, Natural Disasters
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: machine learning/AI for environmental and agricultural analysis.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Global and Community Health
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: infectious diseases transmission, epidemiology, one health, zoonotic disease, infant health
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Information Sciences and Information Technology
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Engineering Education.
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Generative Image AI, Virtual/Augmented Reality. Learn more att my lab website: https://mason.gmu.edu/~zyan4/.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Information Systems and Operations Management
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Information Systems, Application of AI in Business Settings, Social Marketing.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Institute for Digital Innovation
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research Interests: Generative AI, STEM education
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Mason Square (Arlington) Campus
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week.
Research interests: work with deep learning algorithms for 3-D tracking of animal (laboratory mouse) pose and behavior; interest in basic programming; research on spatial cognition, memory, and navigation in a neurophysiology lab
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Format: In-person Internships ONLY.
Research interests: Neuroscience, learning and memory, synaptic plasticity, hippocampal oscillations
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus.
Mathematics
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Mechanical Engineering
Format: Hybrid internships (A combination of remote work and in-person work during an average week)
Research interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, with energy, water, and biomedical applications.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Physics and Astronomy
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Sun, Astronomy, Computer programming in Python. See more of my research interests on my CV here: https://science.gmu.edu/media/185.
School of Systems Biology
Format: In-person Internships ONLY
Research interests: Virus and transcription, HIV, HTLV, CNS and HIV, Extracellular Vesicles and HIV-1 Pathogenesis, Inhibitors of transcription and other related pathways
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: SciTech (Manassas) Campus
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Sustainability, agriculture, horticulture, microbiology, microbiomes
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Statistics
Format: Remote/Online Internships ONLY
Research interests: Data Science, Statistical Machine Learning, Generative AI, Big Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Spatiotemporal Modeling, Image Analysis, Data Reduction, Programming Skills (R, Python). Learn more at my website: https://sites.google.com/view/lilywang/home.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Systems Engineering & Operations Research
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: digital twin, artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, healthcare analytics. Learn more at my lab website: https://mason.gmu.edu/~jxu13/
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Learn-to-optimize, Machine learning, Game theory: Conflict and Cooperation, Resilience of Infrastructure Systems and Communities, Water Sustainability . Learn more at my lab website: https://mohebbilab.cec.gmu.edu/.
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus
Virginia Serious Games, Computer Game Design
Format: For the right candidate, I am flexible on internship format.
Research interests: Mixed/extended reality (AR/VR), Game-based learning, Simulation and metaverse
Any in-person interns in my group will be expected to commute to the following campus: Main (Fairfax) Campus