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Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringClark Scholars Faculty Director
Williams' completed my Ph.D. in materials physics at Penn State University in 2001, and undertook postdoctoral research in the Molecular Biophysics Group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, thereafter establishing a nanophysics laboratory in the physics department at the University of Virginia.
Research interests include: Applied and Theoretical Cryptography, Computer Security David Wu received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2018 and in January 2019 joined the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor.
Wylie studies under recognized work and workers in research communities. She has researched how science and society interact at the universities of Chicago and Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and now at UVA.
Research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Game Theory, Machine Learning, Algorithms and Optimization Haifeng Xu received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2018, did a postdoc at Harvard from 2018 - 2019, and joined the Department of…
Dr. Xu joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Virginia in the fall of 2014. He received his PhD in Mechanics and Materials from Columbia University in 2012 and was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2012 to 2014.
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
As a highly capable and compassionate physician, and well-trained in the area of general surgery, Dr.Yang brings dedication to providing the highest quality of patient care both within the office and hospital at all times without compromise. His utmost concern is with how the patient…
Research Scientist, Assistant Professor, Starting Fall 2024
Xiaoxuan Yang’s research focuses on emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, robustness and reliability enhancement in processing-in-memory designs, and hardware accelerators for deep learning applications. Xiaoxuan Yang is a rising scholar research scientist in the Department of…
Dr. Yates graduated from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in 2001. He works at the University of Virginia, specializing in ophthalmology. He speaks English and Spanish .
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssociate Professor, Physics (By Courtesy)
Dr. Yi’s research is focused on quantum and classical applications of integrated photonics through leveraging optical resonators and optical frequency combs.
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Dr. Chongzhi Zang is an associate professor and resident faculty member in the Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia. He holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Public Health Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
