College of Engineering and Computing

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.

This summer, as a Summer Impact project, a group of Mason students designed and developed a pilot web-based archival application to organize documents relating to the victims of China’s Anti-“Rightist” Campaign in the 1950s.

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

Research Interests: Internet measurements, security of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Security of the EV Charging Ecosystem, Malicious Internet/Network traffic analysis and characterization, Malware/Ransomware detection and analysis