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Before joining UVA as an Associate Professor in 2016, Haiying Shen received her B.S. degree from Tongji University, China in 2000, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University in 2004 and 2006. In addition to teaching, she is an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) and the IEEE Networking Letters (NL).
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 AI/ML for wireless, reinforcement learning, in-context learning and transformers, LLMs, and federated learning.
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of HumanitiesProfessor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Computer ScienceAssociate Department Chair, Computer Science
Mark Sherriff is a Professor of Computer Science (Academic General Faculty), having joined the department in 2007. He serves as Associate Department Chair and Director of the BSCS degree program. His teaching interests are in software engineering and video game design. His research focuses on improving replication in empirical CSEd research.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical EngineeringAssistant Professor of Neurosurgery (by courtesy) and Radiology & Medical Imaging (by courtesy)Research Director, UVA Focused Ultrasound Immuno-Oncology (FUSION) Center
Currently Recruiting
Dr. Sheybani leads a translational research program centered on innovating tools and paradigms for non-invasive precision cancer management.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssociate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Nikhil Shukla is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the ECE and the Materials Science and Engineering department.
Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer ScienceDirector of Graduate Studies, Computer Engineering
Kevin Skadron's research interests cover a wide range of Computer Architecture topics, including hardware acceleration, memory architecture and processing in and near memory (PIM/PNM), automata and pattern-matching/regular-expression acceleration, and hardware support for debugging, and hardware design verification.
Professor Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs
Brian L. Smith, PE is a leader in advanced technology in surface transportation systems - specifically "connecting" the infrastructure to travelers to improve transportation safety and efficiency. His research has contributed to innovations such as mobile phone navigation systems and urban freeway management.
Mike Smith's technical expertise spans applied quantitative methods, strategic planning, technology evaluation, and organizational assessment across a variety of application domains including manufacturing, transportation, defense, and health care.
Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
My research interests include pedagogical research focused on student reasoning, technical communication, and hands-on troubleshooting in a lab setting; systems engineering and the design process; reliability assessment and design, particularly using probabilistic methods; and…
