Faculty

Homa Alemzadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at UVA. She is also affiliated with the UVA Link Lab, a multi-disciplinary center for research and education in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Before joining UVA, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center.

Panagiotis Apostolellis is a full-time Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in Computer Science & Applications from Virginia Tech in 2017.

Christopher L. Barrett is the inaugural Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Executive Director of the Biocomplexity Institute, and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He is an interdisciplinary computational scientist who has published more than 100 research articles.

Nada Basit is a full-time Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD in Computer Science from George Mason University. Her passion is teaching, and she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in CS. Her research interests are in Computer Science education and Machine Learning.

Dr. Madhur Behl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and an Amazon Scholar
He conducts research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and is the founder and team principal of UVA's Cavalier Autonomous Racing team.

Aaron Bloomfield is a professor who joined the department of Computer Science in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on computer science education, specializing in assessment systems and systems to expedite grading while increasing it's efficacy.

Brad is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department, the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, and the Link Lab. His group researchers and develops the next generation of low power, wireless, and secure Internet of Things systems to help make buildings and cities more sustainable.

Rohan Chandra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests include multi-robot navigation, human-robot interaction, and autonomous driving. The overarching goal of his robotics lab is to design algorithms and systems that enable robots to navigate among humans, like humans.

Chen Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. Before that, she was a Research Assistant Professor at Biocomplexity Institute at UVA and a software engineer at Google.

Jim Cohoon has co-authored several programming language textbooks. His research interests are swarm algorithms and models, probabilistic search, routing, and Computer Science education and broadening participation. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and winner of the IEEE Computer Science Taylor L. Booth Education Award.

Hadi Daneshmand is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science who works at the intersection of theory and practice in AI (machine learning). He leverages analytical tools to uncover the mechanisms underlying AI systems, characterize their limitations, and design reliable and interpretable models. For more information, please see my webpage. 

Jack W. Davidson is a Professor of Computer Science at UVA. He joined in 1981 after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. His research interests include compilers, computer security, programming languages, computer architecture, and embedded systems. He is the principal investigator on several ongoing grants.

Afsaneh Doryab's research is at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, AI, HCI, and health. She works on computational modeling of human behavior (incl. Activity Recognition) from data streams collected via mobile, wearable, and embedded sensors. 

Her areas of research include computer architecture and parallel and distributed systems. Her research lies at the intersection of computer hardware and software with a particular focus on data movement.

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

Sebastian Elbaum is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He aims to build safe autonomous systems. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is a founding member of the LESS Lab.  

Sarah Elder is an Assistant Professor (AGF, Teaching Track) at UVA starting in Fall 2025. Her teaching interests include Software Engineering and Software Security related courses. Her research interests include Software Engineering Education, Software Metrics, Program Analysis, and Vulnerability Management.

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

Nando Fioretto leads UVA's Responsible AI for Science and Engineering (RAISE) group, 
which advances foundation models for scientific and engineering research and 
promotes the responsible use of AI. 
RAISE's mission is to develop AI models grounded in physical and engineering 
principles, endowing them with a principled understanding of the world

Geoffrey C. Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University, where he was Senior Wrangler. He is now a Professor in the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative and Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia, and is currently active in the Industry consortium MLCommons/MLPerf.

Andrew Grimshaw is the chief designer and architect of Mentat and Legion. In 1999 he co-founded Avaki Corporation, and served as its Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, until 2005 when Avaki was acquired by Sybase. In 2003 he won the Frost and Sullivan Technology Innovation Award.

Wajih Ul Hassan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. His research interests are broadly in systems security, threat detection, and forensic investigation

After growing up in Tennessee and completing my PhD in Scotland, I taught for 13 years at Florida Atlantic University.

His research spans the broad domain of computer architecture and systems, with a particular focus on designing efficient and resilient GPU- and accelerator-rich platforms. 

Anita Jones received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1973. She left CMU as an Associate Professor when she co-founded Tartan Laboratories. She was vice-president of Tartan from 1981-87. In 1988 she joined UVA as a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department. She is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow.

Hyojoon Kim serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie in computer networks and distributed networked systems, with a specific focus on in-network computing, programmable networks, software-defined networking, network measurement, and network security.

Li's research interests are generally in AI, Data Mining, and Machine Learning. As a result of his research work, he has published over 200 papers in high-impact venues. He has won several prestigious awards, and his work is supported by NSF, DOE, ONR, JP Morgan, Netflix, Cisco, Snap, and NEC America.

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 tenured associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.

I am interested in Cryptography, Algorithms, and in general Theoretical Computer Science. My current research focuses on accessing large data efficiently and privately. My results cover Oblivious Random Access Machines (RAM), Private Information Retrieval, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption for RAM programs.

Chang Lou is a tenure-track assistant professor in Department of Computer Science at University of Virginia. His research interests are distributed systems, operating systems, and cloud computing. His work centers on improving system reliability and availability. 

A university educator with over 20 years experience, Prof. Morrison researches Computing Education by exploring cognitive load theory within programming and broadening participation in computing. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech, a master's in CS, and a BS in Computer Engineering. Director of Computing Education Center.

Angela Orebaugh is an Associate Professor in the Engineering School's Computer Science Department. Her teaching and research blends keeping us safe and secure in the cyber world with a passion for promoting mindful, intentional, engagement with technology.

I develop trustworthy AI that is not only accurate, but also generalizable, interpretable, and verifiable. My research spans machine learning and computer vision, with applications in health, science, and autonomous systems. Our goal at DeepREAL is simple: Develop AI we can trust and understand why.

Raymond Pettit's interests include Metacognition in Novice Programmers, Gender Issues in CS Courses, Automated Assessment Tools for Programming, Programming Error Messages, CS1, CS2, and Programming Languages

Charles Reiss is an Assistant Professor, specializing in computer systems-related topics.Before joining UVa, he received in PhD from Berkeley, developing systems to analyze memory requirements in analytics systems like Apache Spark.

Research interests include:

Computer Science Education, Computer Science Systems.

Professor Gabriel Robins earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1992, where he received an IBM Fellowship and a Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dr. Daniel J. Rosenkrantz is a Distinguished Institute Professor with the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia. He has made fundamental contributions to many areas of computer science including formal languages, theory of computation, etc and is listed in notable “Who’s Who” lists for his many scientific achievements

Before joining UVA as an Associate Professor in 2016, Haiying Shen received her B.S. degree from Tongji University, China in 2000, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University in 2004 and 2006. In addition to teaching, she is an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) and the IEEE Networking Letters (NL).

Mark Sherriff is a Professor of Computer Science (Academic General Faculty), having joined the department in 2007. He serves as Associate Department Chair and Director of the BSCS degree program. His teaching interests are in software engineering and video game design. His research focuses on improving replication in empirical CSEd research.

Kevin Skadron's research interests cover a wide range of Computer Architecture topics, including hardware acceleration, memory architecture and processing in and near memory (PIM/PNM), automata and pattern-matching/regular-expression acceleration, and hardware support for debugging, and hardware design verification.
 

Mary Lou Soffa is the Owen R. Cheatham Professor of Sciences Emerita, serving as the Computer Science Department Chair from 2004 - 2012. She is noted for her research in compilers, programming languages, and software engineering including AI systems. She advised 33 graduated Ph.D. students (50% women), and is an ACM and IEEE fellow.

Stankovic has h-index of 126 and over 72,000 citations. He was awarded the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal. He has two test of time paper awards, nine Best Paper awards, and eleven Best Paper runner up awards. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York, U.K. He is the Emeritus BP America Professor in the Computer Science dept.

With love for the art of programming and three decades of industry experience in software engineering, I am interested in helping students understand theory and implementation.

Kevin Sullivan obtained his background in computer science from Tufts University (1987), working most closely with David Krumme, and in graduate school at the University of Washington, working with David Notkin (MS, 1994, PhD, 1994).

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 work has been published at top-tier venues such as ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, IEEE S&P, and USENIX Security, and has received funding from NSF, DARPA, SRC, and Inte

Anil Vullikanti is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Biocomplexity Institute. His research interests are randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, distributed computing, dynamical systems and network science, machine learning, and AI, and their applications to epidemiology, public health, and modeling.

I completed my Ph.D. at University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Sarfraz Khurshid. During my Ph.D., I also closely collaborated with Kenneth McMillan and Darko Marinov. Prior to my Ph.D., I earned an MPhil (a research master's degree) from University of Melbourne, where I was supervised by Harald Søndergaard and Peter J. Stuckey.

Alf Weaver received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1976. He joined the University of Virginia in 1977 and is now Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the UVA Faculty Senate, and Founding Director of UVA’s Applied Research Institute, where he is working with projects related to national security. 

Chen-Yu Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Virginia. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Research Fellow at the Simons Institute. His research focuses on fundamental problems in interactive decision making and reinforcement learning.

Matheus is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests include AI, Algorithmic Economics, and Security. He applies artificial intelligence, optimization, and theoretical computer science tools to create secure, transparent, and auditable platforms.

Zhe Zeng is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her research interests lie broadly in artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on neurosymbolic AI and probabilistic ML. 

Professor Zhang's research focuses on developing novel machine learning and AI models in the field of medical and biological imaging. Her current work spans generative modeling, medical image and shape analysis, with applications in cardiovascular imaging, neuroimaging, and computer-assisted surgery. 

Aidong Zhang's research focuses on developing machine learning and AI for science approaches to interpretable and fair learning, concept-based learning, federated learning, and generative AI  and applications to medicine and domain science. In particular, she works on large language models for hypothesis generations for scientific discovery.