Artificial Intelligence Research

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The recent explosive growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and data mining demonstrates their vast potential to radically transform the norms and practices in every industry and every aspect of our society. Our department is advancing the state of the art in both fundamental algorithms as well as new algorithms to help users benefit from this revolution and provide new capabilities for the benefit of society.

AI Core Faculty

Madhur Behl

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

Dr. Madhur Behl is an associate professor in the departments of Computer Science, and Systems and Information Engineering.
He conducts research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and is the team principal of UVA's Cavalier Autonomous Racing team
Research Website Cavalier Autonomous Racing Learning In Robotics UVA F1/10 Autonomous Racing Principles of Modeling for Cyber-Physical Systems Google Scholar
Email madhur.behl@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 924-1021

Rohan Chandra

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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.
Google Scholar Lab Website Personal Website Twitter
Email rohanchandra@virginia.edu

Zezhou Cheng

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI for Science Zezhou Cheng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and their applications to ecology, material discovery, VR/AR, and…
Personal website Google Scholar Computer Vision Lab page
Email zc3bp@virginia.edu

David Evans

Professor of Computer Science

For information about me and my research, please see my web page and research group blog.
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Email evans@virginia.edu

Farzad Farnoud

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Information and Coding Theory, Stochastic Modeling, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics Farzad Farnoud is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. Previously, he was a postdoctoral…
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Lu Feng

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Systems & Information Engineering
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. Her research focuses on assuring the safety and trustworthiness of cyber-physical systems, with applications…
Google Scholar Webpage UVA Engineering Link Lab
Email lf9u@virginia.edu

Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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Email matheus@virginia.edu

Ferdinando Fioretto

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Ferdinando Fioretto works on machine learning, optimization, differential privacy, and fairness. He is a recipient of the Amazon Research Award, the NSF CAREER award, the Google Research Scholar Award, the Caspar Bowden PET award, the ISSNAF Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award, the ACP Early Career Researcher Award, and several best paper awards.
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Email fioretto@virginia.edu

Tom Fletcher

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Computer Science
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…
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Email ptf8v@virginia.edu

Yangfeng Ji

William Wulf Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Yangfeng Ji joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia in 2018. He received his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016. From Aug. 2016 to Jul. 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher…
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Email yangfeng@virginia.edu

Yen-Ling Kuo

Anita Jones Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor, Computer Science
​Research interests include: Robot Learning, Human-AI/Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence ​​Yen-Ling Kuo is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and a member of the Link Lab at the University of Virginia. Her research interests lies in the intersection of artificial intelligence and…
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Email ylkuo@virginia.edu

Jundong Li

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

Li's research interests are generally in data mining and machine learning, with a particular focus on graph mining, causal inference, and algorithmic fairness. As a result of his research work, he has published over 100 papers in high-impact venues. He has won several prestigious awards, and his work is supported by NSF, JLab, JP Morgan and Cisco.
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Email jl6qk@virginia.edu

Yu Meng

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining Yu Meng received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023, where he worked with Jiawei Han. Prior to joining UVA, he was also a visiting researcher at…
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Email yumeng5@virginia.edu

Yanjun Qi

Associate Professor, Computer Science Adjunct Faculty, Data Science Institute Adjunct Faculty, School of Medicine Center of Public Genomics
Yanjun Qi is an Associate professor (tenured) of the University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science since 2013. She was a senior researcher in the Machine Learning Department at NEC Labs American, Princeton, NJ from July 2008 to August 2013. Her research interests are within machine learning…
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Email yanjun@virginia.edu

Hongning Wang

Visiting Associate Professor, Computer Science
Visiting Associate Professor. Research interests include: Machine Learning, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Computational Statistics and Simulation/Statistical Modeling, Stochastic Modeling Hongning Wang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at…
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Email hw5x@virginia.edu

Tianhao Wang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Differential Privacy, Machine Learning Privacy
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Email tianhao@virginia.edu

Chen-Yu Wei

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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.
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Email chenyu.wei@virginia.edu

Aidong Zhang

Thomas M. Linville Professor Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Data Science

Aidong Zhang's research focuses on developing machine learning approaches to interpretable and fair learning, concept-based learning, federated learning, and generative AI. She also works on large language models for hypothesis generations for scientific discovery.
Website Zhang's Research Group
Email aidong@virginia.edu

Miaomiao Zhang

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

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.
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Shangtong Zhang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Shangtong Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, he received his DPhil degree at the University of Oxford, MSc degree at the University of Alberta, and BSc degree at Fudan University. The goal of his research is to…
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Email shangtong@virginia.edu