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Engineering a better future will require the best work of researchers collaborating along the spectrum from the tiniest building blocks of materials through the complex workings of entire societal systems. We work at the micro- and nano-scale in fields like heat transfer, catalysis and 2-D materials to identify fundamental properties of matter. Our goal is not simply to conduct research, but to pursue research with positive global impact.

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Optics, Photonics and Sensing Energy, Transportation and the Environment Materials Engineering & Nanotechnology

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Lin Ma

Professor

4D Diagnostics & Thermal-Fluids
Development of novel diagnostics with 4D spatiotemporal resolution to study combustion, propulsion and fluid dynamics

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Stephen J. McDonnell

Associate Professor

Stephen McDonnell’s current research interests are centered interfaces relevant to next generation nanoelectronics devices.

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Omid Noroozian

Visiting Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Noroozian is a civil servant electro-optical detectors systems engineer in the Detector Systems branch (code 553) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. His research is centered around developing low-noise electro-optical instrumentation and detector technologies for…

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Elizabeth J. Opila

Department Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Rolls Royce University Technology Center on Advanced Material Systems Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy)

Our research focuses on materials for use in extreme environments and can be applied to materials for use in aircraft engines, rocket engines, energy conversion technologies, and thermal protection systems.

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Kun Qian

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Kun Qian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He is also a member of the Link Lab. Before joining UVA, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego. He received his Ph.D. and B.E. from Tsinghua…

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Petra Reinke

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Petra Reinke received her first degree, a diploma (M.S.) from the University of Konstanz in Germany, in Chemistry where she focused on physical chemistry.

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Gabriel Robins

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

Professor Gabriel Robins earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1992, where he received an IBM Fellowship and a Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Ethan A. Scott

Research Assistant Professor

Ethan joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2023. In addition to teaching, he serves as Deputy Director of the UVA ExSiTE Lab. Ethan's research interests include the development and application of experimental techniques to analyze heat and energy transfer in extremes of material size and environment.

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Cong Shen

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Cong Shen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UVa. He obtained his PhD degree from UCLA. His current interests are in generative models, in-context learning, reinforcement learning, federated learning, and their engineering applications (particularly in wireless communications and networking).

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Nikhil Shukla

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Nikhil Shukla is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the ECE and the Materials Science and Engineering department.

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Nikolaos Sidiropoulos

Louis T. Rader Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently Recruiting

Nikos Sidiropoulos earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland–College Park, in 1992.

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Kevin Skadron

Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer Science

Kevin Skadron's research interests cover a wide range of Computer Architecture topics, including hardware acceleration, memory architecture and processing in and near memory (PIM/PNM), automata and pattern-matching/regular-expression acceleration, and hardware support for debugging.

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