robotics and autonomous systems

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: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation

Mason's College of Engineering and Computing Rapid Prototype Research Center (RPRC) successfully completed a demonstration of an advanced heavy-lift autonomous aircraft called UAS-(L) at Fort Pickett, Virginia.

Research Interests: Bio-medical robots, soft robotics

Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, resilient multi-robot systems, distributed resource allocation, human-in-the-loop for MAS

Cong Wang's research focuses on addressing security and performance challenges in Mobile/Cloud Computing, IoT, Machine Learning and Systems.

Linghan Zhang is an Assistant Professor of the Cyber Security Engineering Department at George Mason University.

Leigh McCue, associate professor and interim chair of mechanical engineering is looking to take a deeper dive into her research at the Vessel Dynamics Lab. The recent recipient of the Beck Foundation Faculty Fellow award is building a fleet of maritime robots and will use the funds from the award to expand this work.

Research Interests: Neuromorphic learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed learning, algorithm hardware co-design

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