Volgenau School of Engineering

Research Interests: Cost Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling

Research Interests: Hardware Security, Memory Systems

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

Mason IST student Maya Chatterjee debuts the Patriot Cloud Conference for women interested in STEM careers.

Research Interests: Self-propelled nanoparticles, mechanobiology, extracellular matrix, microbiology, fluid dynamics, heat transfer

Research Interests: Aircraft and drone systems, urban air mobility, air transportation, system modeling and simulation

Research Interests: Probabilistic Ontologies, Decision Support Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Fusion, and Cyber-Physical Systems Security

Research Interests: Investigating the relationship between brain structure, activity, and function from the cellular level to the circuit level

Research Interest: Environmental Engineering