News Highlights

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.

Nathan Swami Earns Midcareer Award for Scholarly Contributions in Electrokinetics

Nathan Swami, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has earned the AES Electrophoresis Society 2021 Midcareer award for scholarly contributions to the electrokinetics field.

Applied Physics Letters Editors Highlight Paper First-authored by Shelby Fields

Kudos to Shelby Fields, University of Virginia Ph.D. student of materials science and engineering, who first-authored a collaborative research paper published and selected as an “editor’s pick” in Applied Physics Letters.

Homa Alemzadeh Aids Successful Kick-off Event for IFIP WG10.4’s Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security Project

Homa Alemzadeh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, shared her expertise in resilient cyber-physical systems with members of the International Federation for Information Processing during the winter meeting of its Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

Novel Data Mining Method Identifies Most Promising Drugs to Treat COVID-19

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and his collaborators are developing novel data mining and artificial intelligence methods to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Model Predicts Hospitalizations 10-15 Days Ahead with Improved Accuracy

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and his collaborators have developed models and methods to predict the evolution of epidemic trends for many regions simultaneously. This helps public health officials and hospital administrators manage scarce resources such as respirators and intensive care unit beds needed for COVID-19 response.

Jundong Li’s Graph Mining Research Aims to Reduce Bias in Decision-Making

Jundong Li, University of Virginia assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with joint appointments in computer science and the School of Data Science, shared advancements in graph mining at the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, January 7-15.