Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, end-user development, AI planning, interaction design
January 25, 2023Missy 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.
Research Interests: Human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-systems engineering, public policy implications of unmanned vehicles, ethical and social impact of technology
Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning
