Missy Cummings 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. She is currently the Boeing Assistant Professor in the Aeronautics Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her previous teaching experience indudes 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 indude supervisory control, human interaction with autonomous vehidle systems, humans and automation, decision support, human computer interaction, and the ethical and social impact of technology
Missy Cummings 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. She is currently the Boeing Assistant Professor in the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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 supervisory control, human interaction with autonomous vehicle systems, humans and automation, decision support, humancomputer interaction, and the ethical and social impact of technology