Faculty
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Phillip Taylor
Assistant Professor, Starting fall 2024, Chemical EngineeringPhillip A. Taylor is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering starting Fall 2024. After obtaining a B.S.E. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016, he completed an M.S.E. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering… -
Robert H. Thiele
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical EngineeringDr. Thiele is a Charlottesville native and an alumnus of both Charlottesville High School (1997) and the University of Virginia (Chemical Engineering, 2001). He attended medical school at Vanderbilt, completed his internship at Northwestern, his anesthesiology residency at UVA and his… -
Esther Tian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, First Year Engineering CenterEsther Tian is an associate professor of engineering. She also serves as the faculty advisor for the Engineers for Sustainable World at UVA club. Before joining the inaugural First Year Engineering Center, Esther helped establish the Engineering program at Eastern Mennonite University and led the program to attain the initial ABET accreditation.
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Yuan Tian
Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer ScienceResearch interests include: Security and Privacy, Cyber-Physical System, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction My research interests involve security and privacy and its interactions with system, networking, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. My current research… -
Rob Tieman, PE, PMP
Professor of Practice, Civil and Environmental EngineeringMy career has focused on progressive management and engineering expertise that is concentrated in executive leadership of transportation projects, programs, and portfolios.
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Ronald J. Unnerstall
Professor of Practice - Chemical Process Safety 2019 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting ProfessorRon 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… -
Rupa S. Valdez
Associate Professor of Systems and Information Engineering Associate Professor of Public Health SciencesMy research focuses on understanding and designing solutions to support the ways in which people manage health at home and in the community. I draw on methods from multiple disciplines including human factors engineering, cultural anthropology, and health informatics, among others… -
Nick Vecchiarello
Assistant Professor, Chemical EngineeringNick 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… -
Ashish Venkat
William Wulf Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer ScienceAshish 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, and USENIX Security, and has received funding from NSF, DARPA, SRC, and Intel.
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Anil Vullikanti
Professor, Computer Science, University of Virginia Biocomplexity InstituteAnil 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.