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 statistics professor Lily Wang

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Non/semi-parametric regression, methodologies for functional data, spatiotemporal data, survey sampling, high dimensional data analysis.
  • Mason CYSE Professor Duminda Wijesekera

    Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering

    Research Interests: Safety and security of networked control systems overall and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Next G-based Edge services, building digital twins and vulnerability detection, and mitigation and applying formal methods to ensure cyber security
  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Xuesu Xiao wearing a white collared shirt and black suit jacket.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Field robotics, motion planning, machine learning
  • Mason ECE assistant professor Ningshi Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation
  • A headshot of CS assistant professor Ziyu Yao, wearing glasses, a dark winter coat with a fur-trimmed hood, stands outdoors near a green-tiled wall and brick buildings.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human-AI interaction, NLP, machine learning
  • A photo of CS associate professor Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu, wearing a light blue button-up shirt, sitting indoors with an American flag blurred in the background.

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI), virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Shanjiang Zhu

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

    Research Interests: Travel demand modeling, transportation planning, data analytics, managed lanes and tolling, multi-modal mobility and infrastructure.