Cyber-Physical Systems

Our strengths in adaptive and robust control, assured autonomy, dependable and secure computing, and fluid mechanics lead the way in developing resilient robotic and cyber-physical systems.

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Our research offers practical solutions and innovations in micro-grids; autonomous aerial, ground and underwater vehicles; medical devices and surgical robots.

Core Faculty

Homa Alemzadeh

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Computer Science (by Courtesy)
Currently Recruiting

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.

Nicola Bezzo

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicola Bezzo is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia.

Steven M. Bowers

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Steven M. Bowers received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in millimeter- wave circuits and systems from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2009 and 2014, respectively.

Maite Brandt-Pearce, Ph.D.

UVA Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Maïté Brandt-Pearce is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Virginia . She joined UVA after receiving her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in 1993. Her…

Benton H. Calhoun

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Benton H. Calhoun received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Brad Campbell

Associate Professor, Computer Science Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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.

Todd A. DeLong

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor DeLong began serving within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 2015. Prior to that, he served at a number of other academic institutions, including Virginia Commonwealth…

Barry W. Johnson

L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Johnson has served on the faculty since 1984 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1994. He was a co-founder of Privaris, a biometrics security company, and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2006 while on leave from the University of Virginia. 

Zongli Lin

Ferman W. Perry Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Zongli Lin's current research interests include nonlinear control, robust control, and control applications. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2001-2003), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2006-2009) and IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2005-2012). He was…

Mircea R. Stan

Director of Computer Engineering Virginia Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC) Professor
Currently Recruiting

Mircea R. Stan is teaching and doing research in the areas of AI hardware, Processing in Memory, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computational RFID, Low Power, Spintronics, and Nanoelectronics.

Ye (Sarah) Sun

Associate Professor

Sun joined UVA as an associate professor in 2021. Prior to her position at UVA, Sun was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.

Gang Tao

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

For more than 30 years, Professor Gang Tao has worked in various areas of adaptive control theory and applications, with particular interests in adaptive control of systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities, and systems with uncertain faults...

Amanda Watson

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

Amanda Watson’s research focuses on wearable technology for healthcare and athletic performance. Amanda Watson is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Virginia. She is also affiliated with the UVA Link Lab, a multi-disciplinary center for research and education in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).