People

Our faculty have a wide range of expertise and education. Their interdisciplinary work in teaching and research spurs exciting opportunities for students and partners.

MARC has 50+ faculty members and dedicated PhD students who make strides in research and education that connect us with sponsors from across the public and private sectors.

MARC Leadership

A headshot of Missy Cummings wearing a black shirt and she has auburn hair
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Mary (Missy) Cummings

Professor and Director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

Jesse Kirkpatrick is a professor at George Mason University
Jesse Kirkpatrick
Jesse Kirkpatrick

Associate Research Professor and Co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

MARC-Affiliated Faculty

  • Computer Science associate professor Zoran Duric

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Haptics, computer vision, HRI
  • Photo of Jonathan L. Gifford

    Professor; Director, Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy

    Research Interests: Civil Engineering, Development and Delivery, Federalism/State and Local Government, Fiscal Policy and Budgeting, Infrastructure Finance, Public-Private Partnerships, Regional Development, Transportation Policy, Urban Policy
  • Mason CEIE Assistant Professor Wenying Ji

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Integration of advanced data analytics, and complex system simulation in construction management and infrastructure systems.
  • A headshot of Mason post-doc fellow Muhammad Salar Khan

    Don E. Kash Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

    Research Interests: Technology and Development; Technological Innovation; AI Policy; X-AI; Economics of Innovation; Tech Governance; Science and Technology Policy
  • Young man wearing a light gray blazer standing against a building

    Associate Research Professor, Co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

    Kirkpatrick's research is interdisciplinary, cutting across such fields as Philosophy, Political Science, Public Policy, and Computer Science
  • Mason professor Jana Kosecka

    Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Visual perception, navigation, machine learning
  • Sri Krishnamurthy is affiliate faculty at the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

    Affiliate Faculty

    Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, CAP, is the founder of QuantUniversity.
  • Mason CS associate professor Jyh-Ming Lien

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, motion planning, computational geometry
  • George Mason statue for the faculty profile

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Multi-agent systems, evolutionary computing
  • Mason ECE associate professor Cameron Nowzari

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, swarm robots, bio-inspired robots, distributed resource allocation