School of Computing

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: Field Robotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning

Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning

Research Interests: Wireless sensor networks, mobile networking, performance analysis, robotic cooperation

Research Interests: Multi-agent systems, evolutionary computing

Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, motion planning, computational geometry

Research Interests: Haptics, computer vision, HRI

Research Interests: Visual perception, navigation, machine learning