Artificial Intelligence Systems

Our applications-driven research in IoT systems emphasizes self-powered systems, leveraging energy-efficient, sub-threshold circuit design.

Our research on in-memory processing, integrated system design, and advanced materials aims to address computational challenges arising in AI and optimization.

Core Faculty

Scott T. Acton

Chair, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering American Telephone and Telegraph Company Professor of Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering (By Courtesy)

Currently Recruiting

Professor Acton’s laboratory at UVA is called VIVA - Virginia Image and Video Analysis. They specialize in biological image analysis problems. The research emphases of VIVA include machine learning for image and video analysis, AI for education, tracking, segmentation, and enhancement.

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Email acton@virginia.edu

Phone (434) 982-2003

Caroline Crockett

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Crockett received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2015 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2022. Before entering graduate school, she worked in goverment contracting as a systems and image quality engineer. She is a member of IEEE and ASEE.

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Email cec3fh@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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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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Mathews Jacob

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Mathews Jacob is is an expert in machine learning algorithms for biomedical imaging. He develops advance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods for brain, lung, and heart applications.

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Email mjacob@virginia.edu

Jundong Li

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary) Assistant Professor, Computer Science (Secondary) Assistant Professor, Data Science (Secondary)

Currently Recruiting

Li's research interests are generally in AI, Data Mining, and Machine Learning. As a result of his research work, he has published over 150 papers in high-impact venues. He has won several prestigious awards, and his work is supported by NSF, DOE, ONR, JP Morgan, Netflix, Cisco, and Snap.

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Email jl6qk@virginia.edu

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…

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Email zl5y@virginia.edu

Cong Shen

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Cong Shen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UVa. He obtained his PhD degree from UCLA. His research interests are in wireless communications, networking, in-context learning, reinforcement learning, and federated learning.

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Email cong@virginia.edu

Phone (434) 924-8940

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos

Louis T. Rader Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Nikos Sidiropoulos earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland–College Park, in 1992.

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Email nikos@virginia.edu

Phone (434) 924-3977

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...

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Email gt9s@virginia.edu

Phone (434) 924-4586

Jing Yang

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy)

Currently Recruiting

Dr. Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, with a secondary appointment (by courtesy) in the Department of Computer Science. Previously, She was an Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State…

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Xiaoxuan Yang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Xiaoxuan Yang's research focuses on efficient and reliable processing-in-memory-based system design, biologically plausible system design, and hardware accelerators for emerging technologies and applications. Xiaoxuan Yang is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the…

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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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Qiaochu Zhang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Qiaochu Zhang's research includes analog, mixed-signal, radio-frequency integrated circuits, computer-aided design algorithms, and advanced computing architectures. Dr. Zhang received the B.S. degree (Hons.) in physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in…

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Email qiaochuz@virginia.edu