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 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.
  • 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 and Department of Computer Science

    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
  • Mason CS assistant professor Xuesu Xiao

    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
  • Computer Science assistant professor Ziyu Yao

    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: Human AI-interaction, NLP, machine learning
  • Mason CS associate professor Craig Yu

    Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests: HCI, VR/AR