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Lach, John
Read MoreProfessor, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Director of Cross-Cutting Initiatives, UVA Engineering
I received the B.S. (1996) degree in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University and the M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Since 2000, I have been a faculty member in the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at...
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Lakshmi, Venkataraman
Read MoreProfessor
Venkat graduated from University of Roorkee in 1987 with a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and a Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1996 from Princeton. He worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 1996-1999 as a research scientist in the Laboratory for the Atmospheres....
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Lambert, James H., P.E., F.IEEE, F.ASCE, F.SRA, D.WRE, Ph.D.
Read MoreProfessor of Engineering Systems & Environment, Adjunct Professor of Engineering Operations Management, University of Southern Denmark, Associate Director, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, Member, Technical Advisory Council, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems, Faculty Advisor, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Director, UVA Site of the Center for Hardware & Embedded Systems Security & Trust, www.NSFCHEST.org
Professor Lambert's interests are engineering systems and risk analysis, with application to (i) advanced mobile grid services and network of chargers of fleet electric vehicles, (ii) enterprise resilience of national wireless broadband network in public safety, (iii) simulation of operations...
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Lampe, Kyle J.
Read MoreAssistant Professor
Kyle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia, and by courtesy, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. He was previously a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH NRSA postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University with Prof. Sarah Heilshorn in the...
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Lark, III, James W.
Read MoreAsst. Professor, Asst. Professor, Applied Mathematics Program, Department of Engineering and Society, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Statistics
Recipient of various academic honors, scholarships, and fellowships
Developed solution procedure for finite-horizon partially observed Markov decision processes that is now known in the research literature as the “Lark algorithm” (or “Lark filtering algorithm”)
Visiting Scholar,...
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Laugelli, Benjamin Joseph
Read MoreAssistant Professor in Science, Technology, and Society
I have a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies. I am currently a lecturer in the University of Virginia’s Department of Engineering and Society, where I teach courses on the social and ethical aspects of engineering practice. In addition to overseeing about...
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Lazzara, Matthew J.
Read MoreAssociate Professor
Matthew Lazzara received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with highest honors) from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he trained in the lab of William Deen. He remained at MIT for postdoctoral studies in the lab of...
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Lee, Kyusang
Read MoreAssistant Professor
Kyusang Lee is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments at University of Virginia. He received his B.S. degree from Korea University in 2005, M.S. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from...
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Letteri, Rachel A.
Read MoreAssistant Professor
Rachel A. Letteri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. After obtaining a B.S. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, she completed a Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
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Li, Xiaodong (Chris)
Read MoreRolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor
Dr. Li’s expertise and interests include (but not limited to) additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, nanomaterial-enabled energy systems, biological and bio-inspired materials and devices, biomechanics, micro/nanomechanics, surface engineering, and tribology. His stature in the field of...