Associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab
She is one of the nation’s leading experts on the use of aerial drones and drone policy, having appeared on such programs as The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and 60 Minutes. She also researches driverless vehicles, the interactions of human and computer decision-making systems and human boredom during long, mostly autonomous tasks.
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Mary “Missy” Cummings
Associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab
Expertise: Engineering > Military and U.S. Foreign Policy
She is one of the nation’s leading experts on the use of aerial drones and drone policy, having appeared on such programs as The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and 60 Minutes. She also researches driverless vehicles, the interactions of human and computer decision-making systems and human boredom during long, mostly autonomous tasks.
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Expertise: Engineering
She specializes in new materials and electronic devices, specifically exploiting molecular beam epitaxy -- a technique used to build layers of crystalline materials for advanced, high-performance devices that support applications such as advanced sensing and communications. In 2015 the U.S. Army selected Brown to lead its extramural engineering research enterprise.
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