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

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.

Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

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: Multi-robot systems, multi-agent games

Research interests: Water treatment and wastewater reuse, distribution system and tap water quality, fate and transport of wastewater tracers and emerging contaminants, including PFAS.