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.

  • Formal Human Systems Lab

    Dr. Bolton and the formal human systems laboratory study why engineered systems fail and how to prevent failures through human-centered systems engineering. Dr. Bolton is an expert on the use of formal, mathematical methods in human factors engineering, particularly for discovering engineering oversights that lead to human behavior, error, and cognition contributing to failures. Methods developed in the lab are applied to safety-critical applications in aerospace, medicine, defense, and cybersecurity.

  • Garcia Research

  • Gerling Touch Lab

    My lab's research interests surround the interface of people and machines - focusing in particular on the sense of touch. My group mixes computational modeling efforts with the design and prototyping of devices with which people directly interact. Our research is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. Our emphasis lies primarily in the domain surrounding human health. Our research tends to be published at the intersection of haptics, computational neuroscience, human factors and biomechanics.

  • Giri Group

    The Giri Research Group is focused on studying the fundamental processes (thermodynamic, kinetic, mechanical and optical) that lead to different organic molecule and metal organic framework morphologies, and utilizing this knowledge to create innovative methods of controlling microstructure and phase for pharmaceutical and energy applications.

  • Global Hydrology and Water Resources Group

    Our research group focuses on solutions and analysis of global hydrology issues using GIS and remote sensing.

  • Global Infectious Diseases Institute

    The Institute aims to address three major 21st-century concerns: diarrheal disease in children, pandemic threats and the most resistant and urgent infectious organisms known as superbugs. The institute takes an interdisciplinary approach, from the identification and diagnosis of disease to intervention to evaluation, in order to understand the mechanisms of disease and intervene medically, socially and through policy. UVA Engineering Representatives: Roseanne M. Ford and Jason Papin.

  • GPU-Accelerated Computing Research Interest Group

    The GPU Research Interest Group is establishing a consortium that includes members with unique sets of expertise and overlapping interests across the UVA grounds on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). This consortium will focus on the acceleration of scientific discovery through the combined use of GPU, AI, and HPC technologies.

  • Graduate Engineering Student Council

  • Hemp CoLab

    Hemp CoLab seeks to advance scholarship in hemp-based construction by catalyzing interdisciplinary research and developing sustainable building materials.

  • High-Performance Low-Power Lab

    The High-Performance Low-Power (HPLP) Laboratory is dedicated to research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware and edge IoT. Ongoing research spans a wide range of topics, from Processing-in-Memory (PiM), low-power hardware accelerator design, and Smart Dust, to explorations in spintronics and nanoelectronics.