Robotics and Autonomous Systems Faculty

Meet our faculty who build and control robots that move through land, water, and air to help people spot dangerous situations, evaluate structures, and help solve real-world problems.

  • Assistant Professor Shaghayegh Bagheri in a black cardigan and white blouse

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
  • Mason assistant professor Ali Beheshti

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
  • A place holder photo of the George Mason statue for the faculty profile

    Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Information fusion, Bayesian networks, distributed sensor networks, decision making under uncertainty, explainable AI
  • CYSE associate professor Paulo Costa

    Associate Professor, SEOR; Acting Chair, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Defense systems, ontologies and information fusion, probabilistic reasoning
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Pei Dong

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, Energy, Water, Biomedical
  • Computer Science associate professor Zoran Duric

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Haptics, computer vision, HRI
  • Celso Ferreira wears a light blue shirt in his faculty profile for the Civil Engineering department at George Mason University

    Associate Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing

    Research Interests: Underwater robotics, coastal mapping and resilience, water resources engineering, water-related extreme weather hazards (impact on infrastructure and societies), and nature-based climate adaptation strategies
  • A headshot of research associate professor Michael Hieb

    Research Associate Professor, C4I Center, College of Engineering and Computing

    Michael Hieb is a research Associate Professor in the C4I center at George Mason University.
  • Assistant Professor Wenying Ji

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Integration of advanced data analytics, complex system simulation in construction management and infrastructure systems.
  • Mason mechanical engineering assistant professor Pilgyu Kang

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Bioengineering and ECE affiliate faculty

    Research Interests: Sensors, micro/nano mechanics