College of Engineering and Computing

College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) Professor Janis Terpenny has joined the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) where she will serve in the expert role and lead in the creation of CMMI’s Manufacturing System Integration program.

Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design, manufacturing, and design education.

Research Interests: Bio-medical robots, soft robotics

Assistant Professor Weiwen Jiang receives the 2021 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award.

Research Interests: Mechanisms and functions underlying the formation of memory and memory-guided navigation with a focus on the septohippocampal brain circuitry

With the support of a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Mason researchers Vivian Motti and Anya Evmenova have developed a smartwatch application that will help improve the daily lives of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s I-Corps program is an accelerator that helps entrepreneurs and researchers work together “to bring invention to impact.” Mason serves as an official I-Corps site, supporting local grantees through the exploratory stages of venture-building, as well as preparing them to apply for the national-level program.

Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, resilient multi-robot systems, distributed resource allocation, human-in-the-loop for MAS

Research Interests: 5G/Next-G Networks, Wireless security, O-RAN, AI/ML, and Spectrum sharing

Amissah's research broadly entails an application of concepts and tools from the fields of Modeling & Simulation and Systems Science.