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Dean, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied ScienceSaunders Family Professor of EngineeringProfessor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dean West’s accomplishments spans 25 years as a researcher, award-winning teacher and mentor, inventor and entrepreneur. Her research focuses on the use of biomaterials, nanotechnology and tissue engineering, applying engineering approaches to studying biological problems and solving unmet medical needs, particularly in the fight against cancer.
Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics
Mark B. Williams received his PhD in physics at UVa in 1990. Following several years with the UVa Physics Department as a Research Scientist he joined the Radiology faculty. His lab applies physics principles to the design and development of systems for medical imaging.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringClark Scholars Faculty Director
Williams' completed my Ph.D. in materials physics at Penn State University in 2001, and undertook postdoctoral research in the Molecular Biophysics Group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, thereafter establishing a nanophysics laboratory in the physics department at the University of Virginia.
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.
I am a social scientist who studies how people work together to learn about nature and technology. Technicians, students, and community members make crucial contributions to knowledge without being professional scientists or engineers. Recognizing their work can help us build more inclusive, equitable, and socially beneficial research communities.
Research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Game Theory, Machine Learning, Algorithms and Optimization Haifeng Xu received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2018, did a postdoc at Harvard from 2018 - 2019, and joined the Department of…
Dr. Xu joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Virginia in the fall of 2014. He received his PhD in Mechanics and Materials from Columbia University in 2012 and was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2012 to 2014.
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
As a highly capable and compassionate physician, and well-trained in the area of general surgery, Dr.Yang brings dedication to providing the highest quality of patient care both within the office and hospital at all times without compromise. His utmost concern is with how the patient…
Research Scientist, Assistant Professor, Starting Fall 2024
Xiaoxuan Yang’s research focuses on emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, robustness and reliability enhancement in processing-in-memory designs, and hardware accelerators for deep learning applications. Xiaoxuan Yang is a rising scholar research scientist in the Department of…
