Affiliate Faculty

Marcos Zampieri is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology, School of Computing, at George Mason University. He received his PhD from Saarland University where he was affiliated with the German Research Center in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests are in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP).

His research focuses on the collection and processing of large datasets of texts from various sources (e.g., social media, newspapers) with the goal of training robust NLP systems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings and co-edited a dozen edited volumes, special issues, and workshop proceedings.

Sanchari Das is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. Her research integrates principles from security and privacy, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and human-computer interaction (HCI) to develop resilient, user-centered socio-technical systems. She leads the Center for AI, Privacy, and Security (CAPS Lab) and the Secure Realities Lab, where her work focuses on designing privacy-preserving and explainable technologies. Her research has been published in top-tier conferences such as USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, CHI, and CSCW. She also brings industry experience from organizations like American Express and Parity Technologies.