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 Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Sai Manoj

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, information security for NxG robots, resilient multi-robot systems
  • Mason SEOR assistant professor Ali Raz

    Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Defense and aerospace systems, system of systems/ multi-robots, information fusion, test, evaluation, and explainable AI
  • Mason assistant professor Quentin Sanders

    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Bio-medical robots, soft robotics
  • SEOR professor Lance Sherry

    Professor, Director at Center for Air Transportation Systems Research; Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Aircraft and drone systems, urban air mobility, air transportation, system modeling and simulation
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Daigo Shishika

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, Multi-Agent Games, Dynamics and Control, Cooperative Control, Animal Group Behavior, Bio-inspired Robotics
  • A headshot of CS professor Greg Stein wearing a blue, collared shirt and black sweater.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Burak Tanyu

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

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • Mason electrical and computer engineering professor Zhi Tian

    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Distributed Learning for MAS, wireless ad hoc networks, multi-robot coordination, information fusion
  • Mason electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Filipe Veiga

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation
  • Mason professor Anand Vidyashankar

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Bioinformatics and biopharmaceutical statistics, robust inference, branching process, risk theory.