People

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

Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings

“I am a big tech futurist. My job is to try to make tech work. It’s not to stop tech, it’s to help it get better.”

Missy Cummings, director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

Contact Info

Phone: 703-993-6969
Email: cummings@gmu.edu

Jesse Kirkpatrick is a professor at George Mason University

Associate Research Professor Jesse Kirkpatrick

Jesse Kirkpatrick, co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

Contact Info

Phone: 202-631-7302

Email: jkirkpat@gmu.edu

Meet Our People

Our center 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.

  • 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
  • Mason professor Jana Kosecka

    Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Visual perception, navigation, machine learning
  • Mason CEIE associate professor David Lattanzi

    Associate Professor; John Toups Faculty Fellow, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Robotics in smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence for structural engineering, and structural health modeling.
  • 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
  • I-Corps Program Manager Kuzeyhan Ozdemir wears a dark suit and glasses

    I-Corps Program Manager, George Mason University

    Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization, Growth Mindset