CS News Briefs

Read the latest news briefs from and about students and faculty in the UVA Computer Science Department.

  • UVA Siblings Earn Prestigious NSF Fellowships for 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.

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    CS Staff Member to join next cohort of UVA Cornerstone Program

    Jai Maupin, Senior Student Services Coordinator for Computer Science, will join the next cohort of the UVA Cornerstone Program. 

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  • CS Faculty and Students Won DARPA Disruptive Idea Award

    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.

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  • 2025 End of Year Awards Results

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

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    UVA Cyber Defense Team Scores Mid-Atlantic Three-peat

    UVA Cyber Team is on the way to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in April, going for a 4th win!

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    Prof. Aidong Zhang Honored with Distinguished Researcher Award

    Congratulations to Professor Aidong Zhang on being honored with the Distinguished Researcher Award in February at the 6th annual Research Achievement Awards event.

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  • CS and CpE Students Earned CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher 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.

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    CS Student Wins Fall 2024 Link Lab Distinguished Student Research Award

    Kayla Boggess, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, has earned the UVA Link Lab's Distinguished Research Award! 

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    CS Student Receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship

    Erzhen Hu, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, is the recipient of a Google Ph.D. fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction. 

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    Prof. Kevin Skadron Earns Engineering School's Distinguished Faculty Award

    Congratulations to Kevin Skadron, for receiving this year's Distinguished Faculty Award from UVA Engineering! 

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