School of Computing

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.

Research Interests: Real-time embedded systems, sensor networks, network protocols, distributed computing

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Shahnaz Kamberi is an educational game and ed-tech designer and developer and a serious games-published researcher

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational social science

Research Interests: Cryptography, privacy, and data security

Research Interests: Personalized learning

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, stochastic optimization, machine learning, deep learning, optimization for deep learning, generative models, language models, bioinformatics, computational biophysics

Sharon Adamus’ leadership in the development of the school’s undergraduate programs draws from her extensive study and experience in forward-thinking higher education programs.