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.

  • Mason assistant professor David Kepplinger wears a blue shirt and smiles

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Robust methods for high-dimensional problems, computational statistics, applications in the life sciences.
  • Mason professor Jana Kosecka

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Visual perception, navigation, machine learning
  • Mason CEIE professor David Lattanzi

    Professor; John Toups Faculty Fellow, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Diagnostic computer vision, Digital twins, Robotic inspection, Bodily injury detection and analysis
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    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Multi-agent systems, evolutionary computing
  • Mechanical engineering associate professor Leigh McCue-Weil

    Professor and Department Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    A trailblazer in naval engineering research and engineering education, Leigh McCue combines curiosity, storytelling, and teaching to foster a welcoming environment for the future STEM workforce.
  • SEOR assistant professor Shima Mohebbi

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research; CEIE and CS Affiliate Faculty

    Research Interests: Cyber-physical systems, game theory, smart cities
  • Mason ECE professor Jill Nelson

    Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs in the CEC

    Research Interests: STEM education, intelligent sensing, autonomous systems
  • Mason ECE associate professor Cameron Nowzari

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, swarm robots, bio-inspired robots, distributed resource allocation
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Maryam Parsa

    Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; CEIE Affiliate Faculty

    Research Interests: Neuromorphic learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed learning, algorithm hardware co-design
  • Mason associate professor Nathalia Peixoto

    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Affiliate Faculty in Bioengineering

    Research interests: Brain-computer interfaces with wearable devices, neural engineering, biomedical applications of sensors and actuators