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.
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Signal and array processing, underwater acoustics, and engineering education
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, resilient multi-robot systems, distributed resource allocation, human-in-the-loop for MAS
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Field Robotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation