Mary Louise "Missy" Cummings was born on 1966 and is an American academic who was a professor at Duke University and director of Duke's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory.
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Missy Cummings was one of the United States Navy's first female fighter pilots.
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In November 2021, Dr Cummings joined the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Missy Cummings received her Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1988, a Master of Science in space systems engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and a PhD in systems engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004.
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Missy Cummings became a fighter pilot shortly after the Combat Exclusion Policy was repealed in 1993, and her book Hornet's Nest recounts her experience with discrimination and hostility as one of the first women in the fighter pilot community.
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Missy Cummings's first call sign was Medusa and her second was Shrew.
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Missy Cummings became a full professor at Duke University in 2016.
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Missy Cummings served on the Board of Directors for the automotive technology company Veoneer, Inc from 2018 to 2021.
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Missy Cummings resigned and sold all of her shares in October 2021 prior to starting at the NHTSA.
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Missy Cummings is an affiliate professor with the University of Washington's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellow.
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In January 2022, Missy Cummings was required by NHTSA to recuse herself from any matters related to Tesla.
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Missy Cummings later parted ways with NHTSA and joined George Mason University as a professor and director of Mason's Autonomy and Robotics Center.
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Missy Cummings has written on the brittleness of machine learning and future applications for drones.