School of Computing

Research Interests: Security and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Educational Technology, Personalized Learning

Research Interests: Application security, penetration testing, threat modeling, risk assessment, secure architecture, and emerging areas like GenAI security

Research Interests: Solar Flare Prediction, machine learning, data mining, algorithm development, and information security

Research Interests: AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud-computing in agriculture and healthcare

Research Interests: Data Mining & Machine Learning in Computational Biology & Structural Bioinformatics

Research Interests: Women in Technology, Technology Education, Learning Analytics, Robotics, Cybersecurity

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: Cyber Security and Privacy, Security in Mobile Devices, Mobile Healthcare, Large Data Analysis on Mobile Devices