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.
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, Multi-Agent Games, Dynamics and Control, Cooperative Control, Animal Group Behavior, Bio-inspired Robotics
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Wireless sensor networks, mobile networking, performance analysis, robotic cooperation
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning
Associate Professor
Areas of Research: Energy Policy, Federalism/State and Local Government, Public Administration, Public Management, Regulatory Policy, Third-Party Governance, Contracting-Out, Rules and Governance Institutions