ECE Research in Machine Learning, Signal and Image Processing, and Communications

Scott Acton, professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the Virginia image and video analysis lab. Members concentrate on image analysis problems such as tracking, segmentation and retrieval, with an emphasis on biological and biomedical image analysis.

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Maïté Brandt-Pearce, professor of electrical and computer engineering, specializes in nonlinear effects in fiber-optics, free-space optical communications, cross-layer design of optical networks subject to physical layer degradations, body area networks, and radar signal processing.

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Farzad Farnoud, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, leads the information processing and storage lab to solve problems at the intersection of information theory, bioinformatics, computational biology and machine learning.

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Tom Fletcher, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, has developed image analysis techniques to help researchers understand autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. He serves as associate director of the UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine.

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Jundong Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, with a joint appointment in computer science and the School of Data Science, conducts research in data mining and machine learning with a particular focus on feature learning, graph mining and social computing.

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Gustavo Rohde, professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering, leads the imaging and data science lab; members conduct objective and quantitative modeling of data from imaging and other types of sensors by incorporating knowledge from multiple disciplines.

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Cong Shen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, conducts research in wireless communications, networking and machine learning with an emphasis on theoretical models, algorithms, and practical engineering applications such as reinforcement learning and edge intelligence.

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Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads research in signal processing, communications, optimization, tensor decomposition and factor analysis, with applications in machine learning and communications.

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Yixin Sun, Anita Jones Career Enhancement Assistant Professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, conducts research in network security and privacy with specific interests in network security and privacy, routing security, anonymity systems and network attacks and defenses.

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Miaomiao Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, develops novel models at the intersection of statistics, mathematics and computer engineering for medical and biological imaging, such as image registration and segmentation.

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