College of Engineering and Computing

  • February 6, 2023

    Missy Cummings, a George Mason University mechanical engineering professor, calls herself a “tech futurist,” whose job is to “make tech work. It’s not to stop tech, it’s to help it get better.”

  • January 25, 2023

    Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

  • Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

  • Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation

  • Research Interests: Field Robotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning

  • Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, resilient multi-robot systems, distributed resource allocation, human-in-the-loop for MAS

  • Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming

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

  • Research Interests: Defense and aerospace systems, system of systems/ multi-robots, information fusion, test, evaluation, and explainable AI

  • Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, Multi-Agent Games, Dynamics and Control, Cooperative Control, Animal Group Behavior, Bio-inspired Robotics