Volgenau School of Engineering

  • Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, Computing Hardware, Energy Harvesting and Storage, Biomedical Devices

  • Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure

  • January 25, 2023

    Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

  • Research Interests: Human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-systems engineering, public policy implications of unmanned vehicles, ethical and social impact of technology

  • Research Interests: Security assessment of wireless network protocols, threat modeling and counter-mechanism design, cross-technology spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. 

  • Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design, manufacturing, and design education.

  • Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming

  • Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation

  • Research Interests: Quantum Computing, AI Accelerators, and Hardware-Software Co-Design

  • Research Interests: Defense and aerospace systems, system of systems/ multi-robots, information fusion, test, evaluation, and explainable AI