College of Engineering and Computing

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.

Mason's College of Engineering and Computing remembers the life and achievements of professor emeritus Harry Van Trees.

Research Interests: Systems Engineering Theory and Engineering Design Decision Making. 

Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI

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: Hardware security and trust issues in emerging computer platforms.

Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Research Interests: Mechanics and material behavior.

Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation

Research interests: Machine learning and statistical modeling, explainable AI, model fairness and robustness, data exploration, and active learning.