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.

  • 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.

  • Resilient and Advanced Infrastructure Laboratory

    Our group aims to formulate innovations in design, materials and sensing technologies to advance a new generation of infrastructure systems. Led by Professor Osman Ozbulut, RAIL focuses on applying smart technologies and interdisciplinary expertise to the development of resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure systems.

  • Robert Kelly Research Group

    Prof. Kelly's present work includes studies of the electrochemical and chemical conditions inside localized corrosion sites in various alloy systems, corrosion in aging aircraft, atomistic and continuum modeling of electrochemical processes, development of embeddable corrosion microinstruments, as well as the use of microfabrication methods to probe the fundamentals of localized corrosion.
    Capabilities
    • Accelerated salt fog corrosion testing

  • Rolls-Royce University Technology Center

    UVA Engineering is one of three Rolls-Royce University Technology Centers in the country engaged in world-class, collaborative research and technology programs in technologies that are critical to advancements in aerospace and advanced manufacturing.

  • Scully Research Group

    Professor Scully’s group is dedicated to studying all forms of corrosion and materials degradation for the defense, aerospace, energy, biological, nuclear, oil and gas industries.

  • Sheybani Lab

    The Sheybani Lab at the University of Virginia is working at the nexus of therapeutic ultrasound, advanced imaging, and tumor immunology to design and deploy precision cancer immunotherapy paradigms.

  • Virginia Image and Video Analysis

    We focus on developing principled algorithms for image and video analysis. Applied mathematics (linear algebra and probabilistic frameworks) combine seamlessly with neural network architecture design in our Lab for advancing research by solving real world problems in a wide variety of domains, including biology, healthcare, education, and defense.