Computer Engineering Faculty

Lawrence R. Quarles Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor, Biomedical Engineering (By Courtesy)

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Professor Acton’s laboratory at UVA is called VIVA - Virginia Image and Video Analysis. They specialize in biological image analysis problems. The research emphases of VIVA include machine learning for image and video analysis, AI for education, tracking, segmentation, and enhancement. Professor...

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Assistant Professor, Computer Science (by Courtesy)

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Homa Alemzadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science (by courtesy) at the University of Virginia. She is also affiliated with the UVA Link Lab, a multi-disciplinary center for research and education in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS...

Professor, Associate Director, Link Lab

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Laura Barnes is a professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering. She is the Associate Director of Link Lab and directs the Sensing Systems for Health Lab which focuses on designing impactful, technology-enabled solutions for improving health and well-being. She received her...

Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Adam Barnes received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1992, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995, also from Virginia Tech, focused on high-temperature fiber optic sensors. After a few years working with fiber optic sensors, he went to work for Vatell...

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Systems and Information Engineering, Cyber-Physical Systems Link Lab, Cavalier Autonomous Racing

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Research interests include: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, and Internet of Things

Dr. Madhur Behl is an associate professor in the departments of Computer Science, and Systems and Information Engineering, and a...

Associate Professor, Systems and Information Engineering , Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Nicola Bezzo is an Associate Professor with the Department of Systems and Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA in January 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PRECISE Center, in the...

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Benton H. Calhoun received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA...

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research interests include:

​​​Internet of Things, Smart Buildings/Cities, Embedded Systems​​

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Brad joined the University of Virginia in 2017 as a member of the Link Lab after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research interests broadly...

Professor, Computer Science, Director, Cyber Defense Program of Study

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Research interests include:

​Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Systems Integration, Computer Architecture

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Jack W. Davidson is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. He joined the...

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Professor DeLong began serving within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 2015. Prior to that, he served at a number of other academic institutions, including Virginia Commonwealth...

Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering , Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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My research is at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, AI, HCI, and health. I work on computational modeling of human behavior (incl. Activity Recognition) from data streams collected via mobile, wearable, and embedded sensors.

Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor, Computer Science

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Research interests include:

​Software Verification and Validation, Software Engineering, Program Analysis

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Matthew B. Dwyer is the Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research...

Professor of Computer Science

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For information about me and my research, please see my web page and research group blog .

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Systems & Information Engineering

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Research interests include:

Cyber-Physical Systems, Autonomous Robots, Formal Methods

Lu Feng is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. She is also a member of the Link Lab - the center of research excellence in Cyber-Physical Systems...

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Professor, Computer Science

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Tom Fletcher is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the Department of Computer Science. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics at the University of Virginia in 1999. He received an M.S. in Computer Science in 2002 followed by a Ph.D. in...

Professor and Zinn Faculty Scholar, Director of VICTOR Lab

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Professor Furukawa received his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University, Japan, in 1990, and a M.Eng. (Research) in Mechatronic Engineering from University of Sydney, Australia, in 1993 and a Ph.D in Quantum Engineering and Systems Science from University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1996...

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Link Lab

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Jon Goodall is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA) and Director of the UVA Engineering Link Lab . He is a water resources engineer working to advance the use of data and...

Professor, Computer Science

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Research interests include:

Cybersecurity, Systems Integration, Computer Architecture, Grid/Cloud/High-performance Computing

Andrew Grimshaw is the chief designer and architect of Mentat and...

Alfred Weaver Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Research interests include:

Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Techniques, Novel Sensing Techniques, Haptics

Seongkook Heo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests span across...

Associate Professor

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Arsalan Heydarian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as the UVA Link Lab . His research broadly focuses on user-centered design, construction, and operation of intelligent...

Assistant Professor , Systems Engineering, Computer Science

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My research focuses on building robotic systems that can fluently coordinate and collaborate with people in complex human environments - for example, in a factory setting in close proximity with people. In order to successfully act within a group, a robot must be able to perceive and predict the...

L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Dr. Johnson has served on the faculty since 1984 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1994. He was a co-founder of Privaris, a biometrics security company, and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2006 while on leave from the University of Virginia. He served as the SEAS Senior...

Associate Professor, Computer Science

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Research interests include:

Computer Architecture, Grid/Cloud/High-performance Computing, Programming Languages and Compilers

I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Virginia (UVA), where I lead the research group...

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Assistant Professor, Data Science

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Jundong Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, and School of Data Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Arizona State University in 2019, M.Sc. degree in...

William Wulf Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor, Computer Science

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Research interests include:

Systems software, at the intersection of OS × compilers × architecture

Felix Xiaozhu Lin joined the Department of Computer Science as an associate professor in August 2020. Prior to his appointment at UVA Engineering, Lin was a...

Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

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Clint Miller studies the genetic and environmental risk factors for coronary artery disease and other complex cardiovascular diseases using a combination of large-scale multi-omics profiling and genetic and drug perturbations. He is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Sciences and a resident...

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Dr. Rohde develops computational predictive models using machine learning and signal and image processing with applications in pathology, radiology, systems biology, and mobile sensing. He earned B.S. degrees in physics and mathematics in 1999, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in...

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Cong Shen received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently an Assistant Professor of the Electrical...

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (By Courtesy)

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Haiying Shen received her BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Tongji University, China in 2000, and her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. She was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and...

Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer Science, Fellow of the ACM and IEEE

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Research interests include:

Computer Architecture, Hardware Acceleration, Near-data/in-memory Processing, Automata Processing, High-Performance Computing, Low Power Design, and Hardware Support for Debugging

Kevin Skadron has been on the faculty at...

Owens R. Cheatham Professor of Sciences Emerita

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Research interests include:

Computer Architecture, Software Engineering, Programming Languages and Compilers

Mary Lou Soffa is the Owen R. Cheatham Professor of Sciences in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia, serving as the...

Director of Computer Engineering, Virginia Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC) Professor

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Mircea R. Stan is teaching and doing research in the areas of AI hardware, Processing in Memory, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computational RFID, Low Power, Spintronics, and Nanoelectronics. He leads the High-Performance Low-Power (HPLP) lab and is an associate director of the Center for Automata...

BP America Professor Emeritus,, Director Emeritus of the Link Lab

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Research interests include:

Cyber Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Smart Health, Smart Cities, Real-Time Systems

Professor John A. Stankovic is the BP America Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia and past...

Anita Jones Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research interests include:

Network Security and Privacy, Routing Security, Anonymity Systems, Network Attacks and Defenses

I am broadly interested in network security and privacy. I joined the Department of Computer Science in January 2020 as Assistant...

William Wulf Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Research interests include: Computer Architecture, Compilers, Computer Security

Ashish Venkat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where he joined after obtaining a Ph.D. from UC San Diego. His research interests are in computer...

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Professor Zhang completed her PhD in computer science at the University of Utah. She was a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Zhang received the Medical Image Computing and Computer...