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, Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science

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

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

    Research Interests: Robotics in smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence for structural engineering, and structural health modeling.
  • Mason CS associate professor Jyh-Ming Lien

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, motion planning, computational geometry
  • George Mason statue for the faculty profile

    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

    Beck Foundation Faculty Fellow

    A trailblazer in naval engineering research and engineering education, Leigh McCue combines curiosity, storytelling, and teaching that fosters a diverse environment for women and minorities in STEM.
  • 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 associate professor Jill Nelson

    Associate 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

    Research Interests: Neuromorphic learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed learning, algorithm hardware co-design