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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.
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.
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.
Anita Jones Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer ScienceAssistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting
I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science, with joint appointment in Electrical Engineering. My research involves measuring and analyzing Internet protocols, with a focus on security and privacy. We collect Internet data, analyze protocol specifications, and test protocol…
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringAssociate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, joint appointment
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.
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...
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssistant 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).