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 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
  • 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
  • Mason professor Robert Simon a plaid-blue shirt and glasses

    Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Wireless sensor networks, mobile networking, performance analysis, robotic cooperation
  • CS professor Greg Stein has long blonde hair and wears a blue, collared shirt

    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