Theory

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With our recent successful faculty hires in the CS department, the areas of security/cryptography, algorithmic game theory, as well as network science have achieved critical mass that puts CS@UVA in a unique position to differentiate itself and serve as a catalyst for rapid growth in this area.

Theory Core Faculty

Christopher L. Barrett

Executive Director, Biocomplexity Institute Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Biocomplexity Institute Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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.
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Email ChrisBarrett@virginia.edu

Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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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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Wei-Kai Lin

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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.
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Mohammad Mahmoody

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Mohammad Mahmoody's research interests include cryptography, adversarial learning, computational complexity.
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Madhav Marathe

Professor, Computer Science Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Biocomplexity Institute Division Director, Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing Division, Biocomplexity Institute
Madhav Marathe is an endowed Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Director of the Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing (NSSAC) Division, Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, and a tenured Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Dr. Marathe is a passionate…
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Anil Vullikanti

Professor, Computer Science, University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute

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.
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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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