Faculty

Our faculty are not content to trod well-worn engineering paths. Instead, they are driven to pursue innovations in teaching, research that address truly complex challenges, and to pursue worldwide leadership roles in their fields. See Also: Emeritus Faculty Directory.

  • Sarah Elder

    Assistant Professor (AGF) Teaching Track, Computer Science
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    Sarah Elder is an Assistant Professor (AGF, Teaching Track) at UVA starting in Fall 2025. Her teaching interests include Software Engineering and Software Security related courses. Her research interests include Software Engineering Education, Software Metrics, Program Analysis, and Vulnerability Management.

  • William Epling

    Ann Warrick Lacy Distinguished Professor
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    Bill received his PhD from the University of Florida in 1997 and his BS from Virginia Tech in 1992, both in Chemical Engineering.
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  • Frederick H. Epstein, Ph.D.

    Mac Wade Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Medical Imaging Associate Vice President for Research, University of Virginia
    Currently Recruiting
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    Dr. Epstein is a world leader in advancing MRI myocardial strain imaging by developing and applying the cine DENSE (displacement encoding using stimulated echoes) MRI method.
    Google Scholar Research Summary Biomedical Imaging at UVA BME Research Landing Page

  • Keivan Esfarjani

    Associate Research Professor
    Currently Recruiting
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    Keivan Esfarjani is theoretical and computational materials scientist.  He has pioneered a method to compute phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of solids from density functional calculation of force constants. He has held appointments at the Institute for Materials Research of the Tohoku University, UC Santa Cruz and MIT, among others.
    Google Scholar ResearchGate Energy and Light Management (ELM) Group Web of Science

  • David Evans

    Olsen Bicentennial Professor of Engineering Professor of Computer Science
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    For information about me and my research, please see my web page and research group blog.
    Google Scholar Home Page Security Research Group Course Cataloge

  • Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
    Currently Recruiting
    Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, PhD

    Dr. Fallahi-Sichani leads a Systems Biology research program aiming to discover the fundamental mechanisms through which human cancer cells respond heterogeneously to environmental and therapeutic perturbations.
    Google Scholar PubMed Fallahi-Sichani Lab

  • Farzad Farnoud

    Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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    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…
    Personal Website Google Scholar ResearchGate Information Processing + Storage Lab

  • Lu Feng

    Associate Professor, Computer Science, Systems & Information Engineering
    Currently Recruiting
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    Lu Feng is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and a member of the Link Lab. Her research focuses on runtime safety and trust for embodied AI systems—intelligent systems that perceive, decide, and act in the physical and human world. She develops…
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  • Anne M. Fernando

    Director, Center for Applied Mathematics Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Applied Mathematics
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    Anne M. Fernando's teaching and research experience spans applied and computational mathematics, including mathematical physics, mathematical biology, and statiscal risk analysis. She is the former Chair of the Mathematics Department at Norfolk State University and has significant…

  • Ferdinando Fioretto

    Associate Professor, Computer Science
    Currently Recruiting
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    Nando Fioretto leads UVA's Responsible AI for Science and Engineering (RAISE) group, 
    which advances foundation models for scientific and engineering research and 
    promotes the responsible use of AI. 
    RAISE's mission is to develop AI models grounded in physical and engineering 
    principles, endowing them with a principled understanding of the world
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