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Professor, Materials Science and EngineeringProfessor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Ihlefeld is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at the University of Virginia. He is the Deputy Vice-President for Ferroelectrics for the IEEE. His group studies the process-structure-property relations in ferroelectric, dielectric, and ion-conducting oxides.
Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering, Computer Science
My research focuses on building robotic systems that can fluently coordinate and collaborate with people in complex human environments - for example, in a factory setting in close proximity with people. In order to successfully act within a group, a robot must be able to perceive and…
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental EngineeringAcademic General Faculty, Teaching TrackDirector, Center for Transportation Studies
Dr. Ivey-Burden joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia in January 2012. Her research and teaching interests include geotechnical engineering, foundations engineering, solid waste management, risk analysis in infrastructure systems, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and geophysical testing techn
Mathews Jacob is is an expert in machine learning algorithms for biomedical imaging. He develops advance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods for brain, lung, and heart applications.
Doc Jacques was initially on the faculty of the School of Engineering & Applied Science from 1998 – 2001; prior to retiring from the Federal government he returned to a teaching position in the School of Engineering on August 15, 2019. He officially retired from the US Department of…
John Marshall Money Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Kevin Janes designs and uses systems bioengineering approaches to analyze cell signaling and transcriptional networks in cancer and infectious disease.
William Wulf Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Yangfeng Ji joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia in 2018. He received his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016. From Aug. 2016 to Jul. 2018, he was a…
Associate Professor, Computer ScienceAnita Jones Faculty Fellow
Currently Recruiting
His research interests lie in the broad area of computer architecture and systems. Jog's research has consistently been published at premier IEEE/ACM computer systems and architecture venues and funded by several agencies such as NSF and Google. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM.
L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Johnson has served on the faculty since 1984 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1994. He was a co-founder of Privaris, a biometrics security company, and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2006 while on leave from the University of Virginia.
Henry Kautz a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. From 2018 to 2022 he served as Division Director for Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the National Science Foundation, where he led the National AI Research Institutes program. He was the founding…
