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Research interests include: Applied and Theoretical Cryptography, Computer Security David Wu received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2018 and in January 2019 joined the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssociate 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…
Assistant Professor (starting August 2025)Academic General FacultyTeaching Track, Computer Science
Xinyao Yi will join the faculty in the Department of Computer Science in July of 2025. Her research includes high-performance computing, with a particular interest in performance optimization and analysis. Her work also involves computer architecture and compilers. She is expected to…
Assistant Professor, Computer Science (starting July 2025)
Zhe Zeng will join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia in 2025. Prior to that, she was a Faculty Fellow in the Computer Science Department at New York University, working with Andrew Gordon Wilson. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the…
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssistant 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.
Thomas M. Linville ProfessorComputer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Data Science
Currently Recruiting
Aidong Zhang's research focuses on developing machine learning approaches to interpretable and fair learning, concept-based learning, federated learning, and generative AI. She also works on large language models for hypothesis generations for scientific discovery.
Shangtong Zhang is an Alf Weaver Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, directing the Sequential Intelligence Lab (SIL). His research focuses on both theoretical and empirical aspects of reinforcement learning, resulting in multiple…
