News Highlights

Vaibhav Verma Earns Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award

Congratulations to UVA Engineering 2022 graduate Vaibhav Verma, this year’s recipient of the Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award.

2022 Graduates Emmanuel Ogunjirin and Yudel Martinez Earn UVA ECE Award for Excellence

Kudos to Emmanuel Ogunjirin and Yudel Martinez, recipients of the department’s undergraduate award for excellence. This annual honor recognizes two fourth-year students who have outstanding academic credentials, demonstrated interest in communications and computers and a track record of professional interests and activities.

Recent EE Graduate Jaykumar Vaidya Reflects on NASA Internship

Vaidya shares his experience interning with an Astrophysics Science Division team tasked with building an atomic layer deposition system to fabricate thin film multilayer coating needed for x-ray telescopes.

Yixin Sun’s Research Helps Secure Internet Applications from Routing Attacks

Yixin Sun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has published research to help communication network managers strengthen security and privacy-preserving systems.

Devin Harris to Lead Multidisciplinary UVA Team on Digital Twinning Project

The Department of Engineering Systems and Environment’s Devin Harris, a professor of civil engineering, and collaborators from UVA Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and UVA’s School of Education and Human Development have received a new award for $300,000 under the National Science Foundation’s Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research Program.

The project, “Adaptive Digital Twinning: An Immersive Visualization Framework for Structural Cyber-Physical Systems,” aims to explore the power of artificial intelligence in the formation of digital twins for large-scale structural systems. Co-principal investigators on the project are assistant professor of computer science Brad Campbell, who holds a secondary appointment in electrical and computer engineering; assistant professor of computer science (teaching track) Panagiotis Apostolellis; and Jennifer Chiu, an associate professor of education. Harris and Campbell are members of UVA Engineering’s Link Lab, a multidisciplinary center for research in cyber-physical systems.

The team’s research will address the need to preserve existing, often aging, physical infrastructure systems on which society relies for essential needs – such as transportation, energy, water and sanitation, and communication – while modernizing these systems to serve as the smart and agile cyber-physical systems we need to meet demands of the future.

The NSF program funding the project, which is known by its acronym EAGER, is designed for untested but potentially transformative research approaches.

Andrew Jones Earns Parrish Postdoctoral Fellowship for Significant and Meaningful Scholarship

Andrew Jones engineers photodetectors, the unsung heroes of optoelectronics.

Jundong Li Earns Two Industry-Funded Research Awards

Jundong Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, has earned research awards from Cisco and JP Morgan Chase.

Three Faculty Promoted Along Tenure Track

Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Student Chengshaui Shi Earns Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship

Chengshuai Shi has earned a Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship to support his research in wireless communication combined with machine learning.

Cong Shen Honored for Wireless Communications Research

Cong Shen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering, earned the best paper award in signal processing for communications at the International Conference on Communications—the annual flagship event of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society.