January 25, 2023Missy 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: Network modeling, high-dimensional statistics, spatio-temporal models, unsupervised learning (change point detection, clustering), random forest
Research Interests: Real-time embedded systems, sensor networks, network protocols, distributed computing
Research Interests: Data science, causal inference, survey methods, longitudinal data, official statistics, open data, citizen science/crowdsourcing/participatory government, urban analytics, public policy.
Research Interests: Educational technology, game-based learning, virtual and online learning environments, computer science education
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI), virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)
Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science
