Volgenau School of Engineering

Research Interests: Cost Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling

Research Interests: Hardware Security, Memory Systems

Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

As a sophomore, electrical engineering major Sai Srivatsav Gutala started a student club called the Inventors and Innovations Team (IIT) with one of his classmates, computer engineering major Nicholas Paschke.

Research Interests: Systems Engineering Theory, Engineering Design, Design Optimization, Space Exploration and Trajectory Optimization, Aviation and Collision Risk

Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

Research Interests: Security assessment of wireless network protocols, threat modeling and counter-mechanism design, cross-technology spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. 

Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Research Interests: Mechanics and material behavior.

Research interests: Machine learning and statistical modeling, explainable AI, model fairness and robustness, data exploration, and active learning.