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Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Supervised by Prof. Vinayak Dravid and Dr. Jin Wang, my doctoral research at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory was focused on fabrication and characterization of nanostructured oxides.
Sun joined UVA as an associate professor in 2021. Prior to her position at UVA, Sun was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.
Anita Jones Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests include: Network Security and Privacy, Routing Security, Anonymity Systems, Network Attacks and Defenses I am broadly interested in network security and privacy. I joined the Department of Computer Science in January 2020 as Assistant Professor, as well as the…
Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringAssociate Professor of Medicine: Infectious Diseases and International Health, Joint Appointment in Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Taniuchi received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia. She works with Eric Houpt, MD, and William Petri, Jr., MD, in developing molecular diagnostic assays to detect enteric pathogens that cause diarrhea and malnutrition. Her focus is to develop…
For more than 30 years, Professor Gang Tao has worked in various areas of adaptive control theory and applications, with particular interests in adaptive control of systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities, and systems with uncertain faults...
Assistant Professor, Starting fall 2024, Chemical Engineering
Phillip 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…
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering
Dr. 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…
Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, First Year Engineering Center
Esther 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.
