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
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.
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
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
Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Visual perception, navigation, machine learning
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.
I-Corps Program Manager, George Mason University
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization, Growth Mindset
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Ultra-small Satellite Design and Engineering, Resilient Satellite Bus Architectures, Antenna Design and Satellite Communications, Real-Time Embedded Systems, Rad-hard Embedded Software
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Neuromorphic learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed learning, algorithm hardware co-design
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Affiliate Faculty in Bioengineering
Research interests: Brain-computer interfaces with wearable devices, neural engineering, biomedical applications of sensors and actuators
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, information security for NxG robots, resilient multi-robot systems
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Research Interests: Defense and aerospace systems, system of systems/ multi-robots, information fusion, test, evaluation, and explainable AI