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Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Dr. Tang's research program centers on the structure-mechanics relationships of hierarchical biological materials and their clinical and biomedical applications.
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...
The Taylor Lab is a computational soft materials research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. We use molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning to study the structure and dynamics of polymeric materials for target applications as tissue-mimetic and recyclable soft materials.
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…
Research Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Ned Thomas is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer whose research spans polymer materials physics and engineering; photonic and phononic crystals; metamaterials, microtrusses, and 3D interference lithography.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Research 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…
Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, First-Year Engineering CenterFaculty Co-Director, A. James Clark Scholars Program
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.
Professor of Practice, Civil and Environmental Engineering
My career has focused on progressive management and engineering expertise that is concentrated in executive leadership of transportation projects, programs, and portfolios.
