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: Biomedical Applications of Robotic Systems, epidemiology applications, biomimetic and MEMS design for field, analog/digital circuit design for robots
  • Mason CS associate professor Erion Plaku

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Motion Planning, inspection and surveillance, multi-robot systems, marine robotics, logistics operations
  • 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 associate professor Lance Sherry

    Associate 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
  • Mason assistant professor Martin Slawski wears a blue shirt, glasses, and black hair

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: High-dimensional data, data compression, record linkage, optimization in statistical settings, machine learning, forensic statistics.
  • Mason assistant professor Greg Stein

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning