| Mary
(Missy) Cummings
Associate Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Director, Humans
and Automation Laboratory
Human-Systems Engineering
Track
Mary (Missy) Cummings received
her B.S. in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy
in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the
Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems
Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2003. A naval
officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of
the Navy's first female fighter pilots.
Her previous teaching experience
includes instructing for the U.S. Navy at Pennsylvania State
University and as an assistant professor for the Virginia
Tech Engineering Fundamentals Division. Her research interests
include human supervisory control, human-unmanned vehicle
interaction, bounded collaborative human-computer decision
making, direct-perception decision support, simulation and
evaluation of human interaction in automated systems, and
the ethical and social impact of technology.
Related News:
Prof. Cummings interviewed in WIRED Business Conference: Drones, Tractors & Beyond (video) – May 5, 2012
Missy Cummings quoted in this piece about the pressures faced by remote drone pilots: “Boredom, terror, deadly mistakes: Secrets of the new drone war” – Salon.com – April 3, 2012
Missy Cummings interviewed on Science Friday: “Drone Technology Reaches New Heights” – Science Friday – February 3, 2012
Missy Cummings quoted in article about iPhone-controlled drones: “Using a phone to fly a drone” – MIT News – November 8, 2011
MIT News story about research of Professor Missy Cummings and ESD PhD student Jason Ryan: “Clearing the decks: A new planning tool helps direct traffic on aircraft carriers” MIT News – August 2, 2011
Missy Cummings talks about smartphone-operated drones on The Colbert Report - July 27, 2011; Read more and view clip
Missy Cummings featured in Boston Globe article about UAVs: “The sky’s the limit” The Boston Globe – July 18, 2011
Missy Cummings discusses unmanned vehicles in article in The Futurist – November-December 2009
Missy Cummings quoted in article
about unmanned airborne systems Aviation Week – September
10, 2009
Missy Cummings and Humans and Automation Lab
iPhone project The
UnOfficial Apple Weblog – August 10, 2009; also on Technorati;
originally on
Wired.com – August 7, 2009
Prof. Missy Cummings quoted in
article on unmanned aerial vehicles “Are
enlisted airmen next to pilot UAVs?” Air Force
Times – December 23, 2008
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