College of Engineering and Computing

Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI

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

College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) Professor Janis Terpenny has joined the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) where she will serve in the expert role and lead in the creation of CMMI’s Manufacturing System Integration program.

Kathryn Laskey, professor of Systems Engineering and Operations Research, retires after 32 years at Mason. She reflects on her time at Mason, from when it was a little known school to the thriving, globally credited research university it is is today.

Students from eight universities competed in 10 tracks for honors at the 5th Annual Andrew P. Sage Memorial Capstone Design Competition on April 25.

Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design and manufacturing and on design education.

Research Interests: Decision Analysis, Optimization, Operations Research, Stochastic Models, Statistical Learning, Sports Analytics, and Modeling & Simulation

Amissah's research broadly entails an application of concepts and tools from the fields of Modeling & Simulation and Systems Science.

The George Mason University Board of Visitors voted Thursday, Oct. 1, to house the new School of Computing and the existing Volgenau School of Engineering in a newly formed College of Engineering and Computing led by Ken Ball, the current dean of the Volgenau School of Engineering.

Research Interests: Defense and aerospace systems, system of systems/ multi-robots, information fusion, test, evaluation, and explainable AI