Mary (Missy) Cummings

Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Director, Humans and Automation Lab
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
33-311
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 252-1512
missyc@mit.edu

B.S., 1988, U.S. Naval Academy
M.S., 1994, Naval Postgraduate School
Ph.D., 2003, University of Virginia

Specialization and Research Interests

Human Supervisory control, human-unmanned vehicle interaction, bounded collaborative human-computer decision making, decision support, information complexity in displays, and the ethical and social impact of technology.

Teaching Interests

Human supervisory control, human factors, experimental design

Positions Held at MIT

Assistant Professor, 2003 - present

Positions Held Outside MIT

U.S. Navy Pilot (A-4, F/A-18); F-14 Tomcat assistant program manager, Naval Aviation Depot Jacksonville, FL; Assistant Professor, Engineering Fundamentals, Virginia Tech

Society Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; IEEE, Society, Man, and Cybernetics; Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction

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