School of Computing

As term associate professor of statistics, Kenneth Strazzeri stays busy teaching about 300 students each semester. Beyond his passion for teaching, Strazzeri discovered two new interests in recent years: running and biking. This hobby is now his major mode of transportation, as well: commuting to Mason by bike has offered Strazzeri motivation and an opportunity to improve as an athlete.

Missy Cummings, a former NHTSA senior safety advisor, and Mason professor, details the risk of autonomous vehicles and how to mitigate them.

Research Interests: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography

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.

Gurdip Singh is the divisional dean of George Mason University’s new School of Computing and a professor in the College of Engineering and Computing. He officially joined Mason on August 1, he is currently on assignment to the National Science Foundation. He will join Mason full-time in January 2023.

Research Interests: System reliability, including the reliable operation of GPUs, nonconventional sensors, autonomous driving systems, and neural networks

Research Interests: Developing novel machine learning algorithms for geological problems

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

Research Interests: Data Science and AI in networking and cyber security, cloud computing security and privacy, cloud visualization, energy efficiency, and resource allocation

Research Interests: Cyber Security and Privacy, Security in Mobile Devices, Mobile Healthcare, Large Data Analysis on Mobile Devices