Cybersecurity Goes to Summer Camp
As part of the GenCyber Cyberwars Camp, hosted by UVA Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and sponsored by the GenCyber...
Computer Science: Generating advances in computation that drive progress in every aspect of human endeavor
Computer science animates our world, driving knowledge creation and innovation that touches every aspect of our lives, from communications devices to the latest medical technology. With significant strengths in the three core areas of computer science—computer systems, theory and artificial intelligence—our department fosters highly productive collaborations that have led to breakthroughs in cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, machine learning and high-performance computing among other areas. We are applying these discoveries to address some of the most critical societal challenges of the 21st century, in fields such as healthcare, neuroscience and sustainability.
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Driverless cars are coming. How will they affect Charlottesville?
The University of Virginia hosted a daylong community conversation around the coming driverless car age’s impacts on Charlottesville...
UVA Student Computer Science Team Wins National Cybersecurity Competition
UVA’s student Cyber Defense Team – in its first taste of national competition – beat talented teams from nine other universities to...
UVA Engineering Tapped to Lead $27.5 Million Center to Reinvent Computing
The investment will fund research to eliminate barriers to mining “big data” for breakthroughs in medicine, national security and many...
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Our Faculty
Daniel G. Graham
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Areas
- Internet of Things
- Embedded Systems
- Wireless Sensor Networks
David Evans
Professor of Computer Science
Farzad Farnoud
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
- Risk and Decision Analysis
- Biomedical Data Sciences
- Stochastic Modeling
David Wu, (Starting Spring 2019)
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Areas
- Applied and theoretical cryptography
- Computer security
More About Our Department
The Center for Automata Processing conducts fundamental research on foundations and applications of automata computing. The Automata Processor is a novel, massively parallel computational accelerator capable of 1-2 order-of-magnitude speedups within existing computer system form factors and power constraints. Watch a Video.
Visit the Center WebsiteThe UVA Center for Wireless Health was established in 2009 to coordinate research efforts in this emerging field that seeks to infuse wireless technologies in healthcare and medical research with the goals of improving patient care and quality of life while reducing healthcare costs.
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