2021 Year in Review

Students of the UVA schools of Engineering, Architecture, Data Science and Continuing and Professional Studies Class of 2021 shared their journeys from UVA to their future plans for making the world a better place.

Through bold research and world-class education, the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science is making the world a better place.

On Saturday, Oct. 23, a team of UVA Engineering students led by computer science assistant professor Madhur Behl will compete in the first Indy Autonomous Challenge, which will be livestreamed from the track starting at 1:00 p.m.

BME Grad Students Continue their Record of Winning Top Awards for Research and Teaching

Katie Knaus just won an All-University Graduate Teaching Award, and Greg Medlock won the School of Medicine's Hungerford Prize. BME students have won these awards more often...

Computer Science Students Launch Women in Cybersecurity Chapter at the University

Connie Zhang and Diana Damenova, second-year computer science students, are breaking down barriers for women in the field of cybersecurity. They recently launched a Women in...

Engineering Systems and Environment course gives students practical tools to apply social justice before the design process begins.

Social justice concepts have become woven throughout science, technology and society courses, including longtime core classes and new electives developed in response to currents...

Team Earns Top Prize in Adversarial Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Challenge

Their approach verifies videos and images on the internet as quickly and accurately as possible through collaboration.

UVA Engineering students spent 10 weeks learning communications and policy analysis skills with hands-on internships alongside high-level science and technology policymakers in...

New UVA Chemical Engineering Program Aims to Grow Careers and Difference-Makers One Mentor and Mentee at a Time

Creators hope program to help students reach professional goals matures into a mentoring network that keeps forming new trunks and branches.

Cavalier Autonomous Racing Team Clocks Fastest All-American Laps at Historic Indy Event - and Chance to Help Drive Autonomous Vehicle Industry

UVA’s fully autonomous car achieved an average speed of nearly 120 mph and a top speed of 124 mph in the historic Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco.

Billy Bardin spoke about his time at the University of Virginia, serving on the chemical engineering industrial advisory board and his current role at Dow.

Fueled by Faculty’s Bold Ideas and Eagerness to Combat the Pandemic, Grant Funding Reaches $86 Million, a 95% Increase Since 2016

The school’s focus on bold research to benefit society led to another record-breaking year.

Associate Professor Gavin Garner weighs in on the Peloton bike craze from an engineering perspective, including fascinating commentary about resistance, magnets and leveling the playing field.

Yanjun Qi Builds Artificial Intelligence Tools That Have the Power to Turn Biomedical Data into Better Medicine

Yanjun Qi, an associate professor of computer science in the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, is using powerful deep-learning models to analyze...

Bi-Cheng Zhou’s New Thermodynamic Model Expands Widely Used Design Tool to Complex Concentrated Alloys

Zhou’s physics-based approach to computational materials promises a deeper understanding of materials’ equilibrium structure.

University of Virginia School of Engineering researchers uncover the secrets of highly efficient swimming at varying speeds.

Hypersonic engineering expert professor Chris Goyne's urgent request regarding national security and Virginia's exceptional resources for manufacturing hypersonic missiles and aircraft.

Madhur Behl Earns National Science Foundation Grant Fueling Research that will Lead to Safer, More Trusted Autonomous Vehicles

Behl has pioneered the use of car racing to accelerate research on autonomous vehicles and will lead a UVA team in the inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge in October.

Wadley Group Innovates Material and Coating Process to Protect Ceramic Parts

Deijkers and Wadley found a way to greatly extend the life of the materials used in these jet engines.

UVA's Department of Biomedical Engineering Shows Just What Can Happen When Research Grows 114% in Seven Years.

Highlighting the multipliers of research growth, including grants, fellowships and the recruitment of excellent faculty.

UVA Engineers Use Global Satellite Imagery and Other Open-Source Information to Inform an International Water Conflict

Prakrut Kansara, a University of Virginia School of Engineering Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, used remote sensing technology to study the...

Elegant Approach Treats Oxidation as a Design Element

Opila collaborates with two MURI teams to investigate materials capable of operating at extreme temperatures.

NSF Grant Funds Study of Fibrosis Progression Using Hydrogels Engineered to Mimic Living Tissue

Researchers like Steven Caliari believe a cure for fibrotic diseases is possible. His research aims to reveal the cellular mechanisms that turn on the disease process.

FerroCoDE Platform Will Efficiently Compute Solutions for Complex Problems

$1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s ASCENT program supports their research.

Poor timing of influenza vaccination campaigns leads to an increase in premature births, lower birth-weight babies and the need to deliver more babies by cesarean section.

Research Sustainability at the UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine

Home sensors to monitor cancer patients’ pain. A smartphone app to manage breast cancer patients’ anxiety and depression. And $12 million in new grant funding to pay for even more...

UVA cardiothoracic surgery resident Dr. Evan Rotar will collaborate with UVA School of Medicine clinicians and UVA engineers to design a device that will help cardiac patients...

Researchers in UVA’s LESS Lab are developing sophisticated simulations and mathematical frameworks to ensure a future where people can safely trust driverless cars and other autonomous machines.

Researchers in the Department of Computer Science are hard at work developing methods they hope will bring greater confidence to the machine-learning world.

UVA Engineering Team Provides Unprecedented Insight into the Mechanisms of Corrosion in Wet and Dry Environments

To understand the early stages of oxidation, think locally, with a heterogeneous point of view.

Dr. Amy Mathers and Lisa Colosi-Peterson, UVA-Center-for-Engineering-in-Medicine researchers whose wastewaster testing program helps keep the University open for students, share their thoughts about next steps for wastewater system applications in a CNN op-ed.

An engineering-medicine-data science collaboration aims to end terminal disease diagnoses for more than 100K Americans.

A UVA associate professor of chemical engineering and his research partner in the physics department are using a quirk of nature to help keep America safe.

A UVA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Student is Developing a New Type of Memory that Could Give Artificial Intelligence a Big Push Forward

Ph.D. student Kiumars Aryana is developing a more sophisticated and powerful system of data processing.

Paper in Nature Energy demonstrates that modernizing power grids and using renewable energy will be cheaper than repairing hurricane damage.

UVA Engineering’s Kevin Janes Scores Three Articles in a Single Issue of Oncology Journal

When an athlete scores three times in a single game, it's called a hat trick. If scientific research had hat tricks, Janes would have fans screaming in the stands.

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Northwestern University researchers create a new polymer-based electrical insulation for circuits that could help put more power in smaller spaces

UVA Engineering and Northwestern scientists combine disciplines to tackle the heat problem inherent in making tiny circuits and chips.

Their Work Will be Presented at Prestigious International Computing Conference in June

Computing experts thought they developed adequate security patches after the 2018 worldwide Spectre flaw, but UVA’s discovery shows processors are open to hackers again.

Innovation Opens New Possibilities for 3D-Printing Human Tissue

Assistant Professor Liheng Cai collaborated with Brookhaven National Laboratory to conduct soft biomatter research.

UVA Engineering is Leading a Three-year, $3.5 Million, Multi-institution Study to Build an Eco-friendly Device that Will Convert River Currents to Electrical Currents

More than 3.5 million miles of rivers snake though countryside and cities alike in the United States. Worldwide, half the population lives within a few miles of a river, while...

Benton H. Calhoun Continues to Pioneer Design and Commercialization of Ultra Low-power Circuits for the Internet of Things

Calhoun was recently elected Fellow of IEEE for his original and fundamental contributions in integrated circuit design.

In new research published in Nature, Engineering Systems and Environment’s Leidy Klotz and his UVA Batten School collaborators explain the human tendency to make change through...

Samira Khan Earns National Science Foundation Grant to Create New Networks Fast Enough to Maneuver Big Data

The amount of data available globally has outpaced the computer processing power needed to analyze it. Khan is reinventing computer architecture to unlock the power of big data.

Meara M. Habashi, Ph.D., Specializes in Creating Supportive Climates for All While Dismantling Systemic Bias

Habashi comes to UVA from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, where she is on the faculty and leads the Brock-Wilson Center for Women in Management.

Luis Lopez Ruiz, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. candidate Luis Lopez Ruiz is building smart healthcare devices that are powered by the human body in order to achieve better health outcomes for patients.

Blake Calhoun, director of undergraduate success at UVA Engineering, is named a Hoos Building Bridges Award winner.

Virginia’s Transportation Project Management Institute brings partnering agencies together for intensive training to better serve the commonwealth.

The National STEM Resource Is Guided by the Practiced Hand of Professor Rosalyn Berne

Center is the go-to resource for engineering and science educators, researchers and practitioners to help them integrate ethics in their work.

Staff Leader in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment Earns University-Level Award

Michelle Busby is a driving force for diversity, equity and inclusion in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and beyond.

Deborah G. Johnson, interim chair of the Department of Engineering and Society, has published a second edition of Technology and Society: Building our Sociotechnical Future, a...

Linnea Saby, Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering Ph.D. candidate Linnea Saby launched an organization comprised of graduate student scientists aimed at supporting community-based activists with scientific...

An accomplished researcher, award-winning teacher and entrepreneur, West will be the first woman to lead UVA Engineering in school history.

Zhang Appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Computer Science

Aidong Zhang, who was one of the first computer scientists to apply the tools of her trade to analyzing biomedical data, has been named interim chair of the Department of Computer...

Fox is known for his work in high-performance and parallel computing

Computational Scientist Geoffrey C. Fox joins faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Department of Computer Science and the Biocomplexity Institute.

What Happened to the First Black Woman to Get Her Ph.D. from the UVA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering?

When Sonya T. Smith became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. from the UVA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1995, her trailblazing days were just beginning.

Guilford Wins ASEE's Theo C. Pilkington Award

The award recognizes significant contributions to biomedical engineering education throughout the recipient’s career.

The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the appointment of Sandhya Dwarkadas as chair of the Department of Computer Science. She will...

UVA Biomedical Engineer Receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award

National Institutes of Health announced that Natasha Sheybani is the recipient of the prestigious NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, which is given to outstanding junior...

Meyer, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Medical Imaging, Joins the List of the Nation’s Top Innovators for His Contributions to MRI Technology and Imaging.

Meyer's work in high-speed MRI technology and imaging has accounted for more than 36 patents and countless patients helped in over three decades of research.