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
Professor and Director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)
Associate Research Professor and Co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)
MARC-Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, human-automation interaction, verifiability and explainability of artificial intelligence (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 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
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Distributed Learning for MAS, wireless ad hoc networks, multi-robot coordination, information fusion
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