CS News Briefs

Professor Anil Vullikanti, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia, has recently been recognized with two major accolades for his influential research.

It’s not every day that two students from the same university department receive the same highly competitive research fellowships. It’s even rarer when those two students are siblings.

Michael and Maria Cardei, graduate students in the UVA Department of Computer Science, have both been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award. This prestigious fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in STEM fields and is known for its rigorous selection process.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ferdinando Fioretto and students Jacob Christopher, Michael Cardei, and Jinhao Liang for receiving the prestigious DARPA Disruptive Idea Award at NeUS-25.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024-2025 end-of-year awards! 

Five UVA students were nominated for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award and received recognition. A number of nominees were commended for their contributions to multiple research projects, several authored or coauthored multiple research papers, many presented their work at large-scale conferences, and others produced software artifacts that are now widely used. The nominee pool featured multiple nominations for students who successfully completed summer research or internship programs, and many students served their community as teaching assistants, tutors, and mentors.