The University of Virginia Board of Visitors has namedMatthew B. Dwyer,the John C. Knight Faculty Fellow and professor in the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. An endowed distinguished professorship is among the most prestigious appointments for a UVA faculty member and signifies the individual has achieved the highest stature and exemplary accomplishment in a discipline or area of research. In a career that spans more than three decades, Dwyer has contributed to a number of high-profile, multidisciplinary research initiatives in the specification and analysis of software. He is one of five faculty members to oversee the Leading Engineering for Safe Software Lab, which is exploring methods to assure the dependability of autonomous systems. In 2018, he joined UVA Engineering as the John C. Knight Faculty Fellow. Dwyer is a prolific researcher and has published more than 140 articles in his research areas of software verification and validation, software engineering, and program analysis, and he has been supported by more than 40 external grants. He has received numerous Association for Computing Machinery accolades, including being named afellowand a Distinguished Scientist and receiving the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering Distinguished Service Award, four “test of time†awards and four distinguished paper awards. Dwyer is also a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development Career Award recipient, a Fulbright Research Scholar, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and a David Lorge Parnas Fellow of the Irish Software Research Centre. The endowment was made possible by Robert Thomson, who graduated from UVA in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering. In addition to two endowed professorships, Thomson also established the Robert Thomson Endowed Scholarship Fund to provide scholarships in the Department of Chemical Engineering.