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.

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: Software and Systems Security, including software analysis and verification, vulnerability discovery, IoT security, mobile security, and software engineering

Research interest: Computer Systems Security, with a focus on the Internet of Things and mobile computing

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Human Centered Computing, Digital Privacy

Research Interests: Real-time embedded systems, sensor networks, network protocols, distributed computing

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

Research Interests: Human AI interaction, NLP, machine learning

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