Centers, Labs, Groups

In research labs and groups across UVA Engineering, our faculty and students are making discoveries and disseminating their breakthroughs across the globe.

  • Materials Informatics Group

    Our group focuses on developing novel informatics approaches to accelerate the search and discovery of new materials.
    Capabilities
    • Design space guidance via DFT/ML

    • Bayesian learning
    • Quantitative structure-property relationships
    • Materials Informatics

  • Microvascular Engineering Lab

  • MIST Center

    The Multi-Functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center is a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. It's mission is to facilitate integration of novel materials, processes, devices and circuits into multi-functional systems through research partnerships between university, industry and government stakeholders. The UVA site adds expertise in functional materials, solid-state devices, photonics, Terahertz sensing, thermal characterization, multiscale modeling and heterogeneous integration. UVA Site Director: Avik Ghosh.

  • MULTISCALE MUSCLE MECHANOPHYSIOLOGY-M3-lab

    he Multiscale Muscle Mechanophysiology (M3) lab is collectively fascinated by skeletal muscles, which are the motors for all the wide range of voluntary movements in the human body. We seek to gain new insights into the form, function, biology, and diseases of muscles in order to improve treatments and quality of life for individuals suffering from muscle-related clinical problems.

  • Naegle Research Lab

    The Naegle Lab seeks to understand the regulation and function of tyrosine phosphorylation in complex networks. We combine systems biology, computation, and experiments to test predict and test the function of tyrosine phosphorylation in proteins and protein networks.

  • Omni-Reality & Cognition Lab

    Dr. Donna Chen of the Omni-Reality & Cognition Lab is dedicated to the education and research of human interaction with infrastructure systems and environments, utilizing alternative (virtual, mixed, and augmented) reality technologies.

  • Opila Research Group: Advanced High Temperature Materials

    The Advanced High Temperature Materials focuses on cutting-edge ceramics, alloys, and coatings exposed to high temperatures and extreme environments such as hypersonic vehicle wing leading edges and combustion engines.

  • Photonic Devices Group

    The Photonic Devices Group focuses on developing novel optoelectronic devices with emphasis on photodetectors. The research projects tend to fall into two broad areas: high-sensitivity photodetectors, e.g., avalanche photodiodes and high-power photodiodes.

  • Rapid MRI Research Group

    Our research focuses on inventing, developing and applying new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, especially techniques that acquire the image data very rapidly and techniques for quantitative image analysis.

  • Reacting Flow Laboratory

    Working to increase the efficiency of propulsion systems while reducing their environmental impact. Primary research interests are in the area of theoretical and experimental combustion, with emphasis on understanding the fundamental interactions between fluid dynamics and finite-rate chemistry.