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

  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Daigo Shishika

    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
  • Mason ECE professor Tolga Soyata

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming
  • A headshot of CS professor Greg Stein wearing a blue, collared shirt and black sweater.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning
  • Photo of Jessica Terman

    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
  • Mason electrical and computer engineering professor Zhi Tian

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Distributed Learning for MAS, wireless ad hoc networks, multi-robot coordination, information fusion
  • Mason electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Filipe Veiga

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation
  • Mason ECE professor Kathleen Wage

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research interests: Signal and array processing, underwater acoustics, and engineering education
  • Mason assistant professor Xuan Wang

    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
  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Xuesu Xiao wearing a white collared shirt and black suit jacket.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Field robotics, motion planning, machine learning
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Ningshi Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation