Faculty

Our faculty are not content to trod well-worn engineering paths. Instead, they are driven to pursue innovations in teaching, research that address truly complex challenges, and to pursue worldwide leadership roles in their fields. See Also: Emeritus Faculty Directory.

  • Afsaneh Doryab

    Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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    Afsaneh Doryab's research is at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, AI, HCI, and health. She works on computational modeling of human behavior (incl. Activity Recognition) from data streams collected via mobile, wearable, and embedded sensors. 
    Google Scholar Website Human-AI Technology (HAI) Lab

  • Nicole Dufalla

    Senior Lecturer, First Year Engineering Center
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  • Diana Franco Duran

    Assistant Professor Academic General Faculty Teaching Track Director Construction Engineering and Management Concentration
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    Diana Franco Duran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She manages the newly initiated Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) concentration.
    UVA CEM Program

  • Sandhya Dwarkadas

    Walter N. Munster Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science
    Sandhya Dwarkadas

    Her research lies at the intersection of computer hardware and software with a particular focus on support for parallelism.

  • Matthew B. Dwyer

    Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor Computer Science
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    Matthew B. Dwyer is the Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.
    Personal Website GitHub Google Scholar

  • Joshua Earle

    Assistant Professor
    Joshua Earle

    Joshua Earle is a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from Virginia Tech. His work focuses on the history of eugenics, and its connection to modern genetic medicine and to future imaginaries of human and more-than-human worlds. His work is situated in Feminist Philosophy of Technology, Disability Studies anBlack Feminist Philosophy.

  • Sebastian Elbaum

    Professor of Computer Science
    Currently Recruiting
    Sebastian Elbaum

    Sebastian Elbaum is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research aims to build dependable systems through domain-specific analysis techniques.  He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. I am a founding member of the LESS Lab.  
    Google Scholar HOME PAGE

  • William Epling

    Department Chair Ann Warrick Lacy Distinguished Professor
    William Epling

    Bill received his PhD from the University of Florida in 1997 and his BS from Virginia Tech in 1992, both in Chemical Engineering.
    Bill Epling Lab Website Google Scholar

  • Frederick H. Epstein

    Mac Wade Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging Associate Dean for Research, School of Engineering and Applied Science
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    Dr. Epstein is recognized for his contributions to the field of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. He has been a world leader in advancing MRI myocardial strain imaging by developing and applying the cine DENSE (displacement encoding using stimulated echoes) MRI method.
    Google Scholar Research Summary Biomedical Imaging at UVA BME Research Landing Page

  • Keivan Esfarjani

    Associate Professor
    Keivan Esfarjani

    Keivan Esfarjani is theoretical and computational materials scientist.  He has pioneered a method to compute phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of solids from density functional calculation of force constants. He has held appointments at the Institute for Materials Research of the Tohoku University, UC Santa Cruz and MIT, amongst many other.
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