School of Computing

Whole-person Psychological Assessment, Statistical Modeling, Psychometric Research
including the construction and validation of assessment instruments and the measurement of knowledge, skills, abilities, traits, dispositions, and achievements, Cognitive Security and Operations in the Information Environment, AI/ML/HLT

Missy Cummings, a former NHTSA senior safety advisor, and Mason professor, details the risk of autonomous vehicles and how to mitigate them.

Research Interests: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography

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.

Research Interests: System reliability, including the reliable operation of GPUs, nonconventional sensors, autonomous driving systems, and neural networks

Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

Research Interests: Privacy, Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Research Interests: Systems and security issues of immersive computing systems, such as VR, AR, imaging, and video systems.

Research Interests: Software testing and analysis, software evolution, software dependability, and AI and software engineering

Research Interests: Empirical bayes, sequential analysis, high-dimensional data analysis, large scale inference.