Graduate Programs

Our degrees are interdisciplinary, which allows our students to work with researchers in a wide variety of areas across the school.

The Graduate Degrees (ME and MS/PHD) offered in the Computer Engineering program at the University of Virginia will prepare you to utilize your academic preparation to become successful practitioners and innovators in computer engineering. Our degrees are interdisciplinary, which allows our students to work with researchers in a wide variety of areas across the Engineering School. Admission to the Computer Engineering Program is highly selective. We are looking for students with excellent technical and communication skills who are excited to join our creative community.

Research Areas of Focus

Both the Department of Computer Science and the Charles E. Brown Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering welcome Computer Engineering students who combine interest in hardware and software. Students have the freedom to focus on a traditional research area or to work with faculty in both departments to develop a personalized area of research interest. As more faculty research crosses disciplines, students are finding even more opportunities to work with faculty in other departments as well. 

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Computer Architecture And High Performance Computing
• Computer Security, Privacy & Cryptography
• Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Cities
• Data Science, Data Mining And Machine Learning
• Dependable, Resilient And Reconfigurable Computing
• Embedded Systems, Autonomous Systems , and Wireless Sensor Networks
• Human-Machine Learning
• Internet Of Things (IoT) And Physical Systems
• Image Processing
• Mobile, Distributed And Cloud Computing
• Networks And Internet
• Robotics
• Smart And Connected Health Systems
• Smart Energy And Power Management
• VLSI; System-On-Chip; Low-Power Design