May 22, 2023Blimps filled the EagleBank Arena air at the Lighter Than Air (LTA) Defend the Republic competition in April. The winning Mason team, led by principal investigators Cameron Nowzari, Ningshi Yao, and Daigo Shishika, competed against six universities and about 50 LTA "blimps."
January 25, 2023Missy 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.
- Fri, 07/02/2021 - 22:26
Research Interests: Human-robot interactions, human-robot co-learning, bio-inspired robotics, distributed resource allocation
- Fri, 02/01/2019 - 12:35
A trailblazer in naval engineering research and engineering education, Leigh McCue combines curiosity, storytelling, and teaching that fosters a diverse environment for women and minorities in STEM.
- Sat, 08/06/2016 - 02:00
Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, swarm robots, bio-inspired robots, distributed resource allocation
- Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:27
Research Interests: Water-related extreme weather hazards, their impacts on infrastructure and societies, and nature-based climate adaptation strategies.
- Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:27
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