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Kester, Mark
Read MoreDirector, nanoSTAR Institute, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology/Biophysics
Mark Kester is a Professor of Pharmacology and the Director of the NanoSTAR Institute of the University of Virginia. He was previosuly the G. Thomas Passananti Professor of Pharmacology at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and the inagural Director of the Penn State Center for NanoMedicine...
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Khan, Samira
Read MoreAssistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include:Computer Architecture, Grid/Cloud/High-performance Computing, Programming Languages and Compilers
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Virginia (UVA), where I lead the research group...
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King, Michael L.
Read MoreProfessor of Practice
Michael L. King is a professor of practice in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He received his B.S.degree in chemical engineering from VA Tech, M.S. from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. from University of Delaware. Mike had a significant 32-year industrial experience at Merck and Co...
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Klibanov, Alexander L (Sasha)
Read MoreAssociate Professor
Born and raised and educated (all the way past Ph.D.) in Moscow, then USSR, what is now Russia. In 1991 moved to USA and worked in academic research and industrial positions. Research interests are in the area of chemistry applications in biomedical research.
Ultrasound imaging is a...
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Klotz, Leidy
Read MoreCopenhaver Associate Professor
Leidy Klotz is the Copenhaver Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. His research is filling in underexplored overlaps between engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable built environment systems. To support this interdisciplinary work, Klotz has been awarded...
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Knospe, Carl
Read MoreAssociate Professor
Prof. Knospe has worked on a variety of research problems in control and mechatronics, including magnetic levitation, vibration control, control of machining chatter, and stability and performance of time-delay systems. Recently, his research has focused on the use of capillary interfaces in...
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Krzysztofowicz, Roman
Read MoreProfessor
Dr. Krzysztofowicz joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1982, after he had held faculty posts at the University of Arizona and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directed the Systems Engineering graduate programs, and was a founding associate director of the Center for...
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Ku, Sharon Tsai-hsuan
Read MoreAssistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Sharon Ku joined the University of Virginia in 2017, after her faculty position at Drexel University and research fellowship from National Institutes of Health. She has a dual academic training in physics and STS, specializing in sociology and geopolitics of innovation and standardization. Her...