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Professor of Practice, Civil and Environmental Engineering
My career has focused on progressive management and engineering expertise that is concentrated in executive leadership of transportation projects, programs, and portfolios.
Professor of Practice - Chemical Process Safety2019 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ron Unnerstall retired from BP in 2017 following a varied career in the Oil and Gas Industry spanning over 34 years. His career was predominately in Refining and Marketing, including 24 years in oil refineries across four locations, and other executive assignments in Chicago, London…
Professor of Systems and Information EngineeringProfessor of Public Health Sciences
My research focuses on understanding and designing solutions to support the ways in which people manage health at home and in the community, drawing on methods from multiple disciplines including human factors engineering, cultural anthropology, and health informatics, among others…
Nick Vecchiarello received his B.S. is Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He then worked as a late-stage purification scientist at Amgen in Cambridge Massachusetts…
William Wulf Career Enhancement Associate Professor, Computer Science
Currently Recruiting
Ashish Venkat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where he joined after obtaining a Ph.D. from UC San Diego. His work has been published at top-tier venues such as ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, IEEE S&P, and USENIX Security, and has received funding from NSF, DARPA, SRC, and Inte
Professor, Computer Science, University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute
Anil Vullikanti is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Biocomplexity Institute. His research interests are randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, distributed computing, dynamical systems and network science, machine learning, and AI, and their applications to epidemiology, public health, and modeling.
University Professor, Edgar Starke Professor of Materials Science and EngineeringProfessor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy)
Haydn N.G. Wadley is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UVA. He has interests in materials science, composite materials, micromechanics, and thermal transport. His current research explores high temperature thermal coatings systems, microarchitectured materials, entropy stabilized refractory metal alloys and rare earth silicates.
Visiting Associate Professor. Research interests include: Machine Learning, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Computational Statistics and Simulation/Statistical Modeling, Stochastic Modeling Hongning Wang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at University of…
I completed my Ph.D. at University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Sarfraz Khurshid. During my Ph.D., I also closely collaborated with Kenneth McMillan and Darko Marinov. Prior to my Ph.D., I earned an MPhil (a research master's degree) from University of Melbourne, where I was supervised by Harald Søndergaard and Peter J. Stuckey.