Faculty Advance Discovery and Knowledge with Prestigious NSF Awards

Homa Alemzadeh’s Work Aimed at Developing New Tools to Make Cyber-Physical Systems Safer and More Intuitive for Physicians

Alemzadeh’s research will enable better training for surgeons, providing feedback in context of their work with patients.

Brad Campbell’s Research Aims to Solve the Practical Problem of Maintaining Sensors to Last as Long as the Infrastructure They Watch

For the internet of things to reach its maximal benefit, all those connected devices have to keep up with the times.

Farzad Hassanzadeh Seeks to Develop New Models and Algorithms for Better Storage and Analysis of Big Data

Current models struggle to find and analyze patterns that emerge in long data sequences. Hassanzadeh aims to make the storage and analysis of large data sequences more efficient and accurate.

Yonghwi Kwon's NSF Grant Supports Research to Create Cybersecurity that Anticipates Attacks

Kwon aims to develop more sophisticated methods for detecting and stopping a global avalanche of cyber threats.

NSF Grant Funds Rachel Letteri’s Biomaterials Research Harnessing the Powerful Chemistry of Polymer Science for Health Care

Letteri’s lab is building a system for producing hydrogels that will capture the complex features of human tissues.

Jundong Li's Research Aims to Improve Machines’ Recommendations and Predictions Based on Cause and Effect

Li’s models will generate deeper insights into observational data to help people make better decisions.

Chris Paolucci’s NSF Award Funds Computational Approach to Improving Catalytic Materials for a Cleaner World

To make a better catalyst, Paolucci is using quantum physics, chemical engineering knowhow and computing power to decode chemical reactions down to the atom.

Cong Shen's Research Will Boost Privacy Protection and Performance of Machine-learning Models that Drive the Internet of Things

Working in partnership with industry, Shen's machine-learning models can be prototyped, standardized and integrated into real systems.

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.

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.

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.

Vicente Ordonez-Roman, an assistant professor in UVA Engineering's Department of Computer Science, has earned a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to guide machine learning for image recognition.

UVA Researchers Uncover the Secrets of the Tuna’s Skillful Swimming to Inform Drone Design

Assistant professor Daniel Quinn is laying the groundwork for a new generation of intelligent swimming and flying machines.

David Wu Earns National Science Foundation Grant to Advance Zero-knowledge Proofs that will Build Trust in the Cloud

Wu, an assistant professor in UVA Engineering's Department of Computer Science, is advancing mathematical models that will secure transactions through the cloud.

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.

Liheng Cai Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Award to Develop Polymeric Material to Control the Types of Energy Streaming into Windows with the Flick of a Switch

Liheng Cai and his students have developed a prototype crystal for active, fast control of light.

Lu Feng Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant to Create Formal Methods that Increase the Safety and Reliability of Human-Cyber-Physical Systems

Lu Feng, an assistant professor with joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia...

Kyusang Lee Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant to Build the Equivalent of a Human Eye and Its Visual Cortex

Device promises to be 1,000 times more efficient in computing than current technology.

Yuan Tian Earns National Science Foundation Grant for Developing Advanced Methods to Secure Voice-controlled and "Internet of Things" Platforms

Yuan Tian, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia School of Engineering, recently earned a CAREER Award from the National...

Bowers will concentrate on maximizing the efficiency of the systems used to transmit and receive data in wireless sensor networks.

Making the trillions of devices expected to be deployed on the Internet of Things over the next 20 years self-charging is a complex research task, and UVA is helping to lead the...

Photoacoustic microscopy can be used to diagnose diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease

Thanks to a recent NSF CAREER Award, Song Hu, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has the opportunity to be among the first to translate PAM into an imaging device...

Geise aims to address water issues that an engineer might encounter in the real world.

Geoffrey Geise, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, has proposed a new approach to desalination that would make it more sensitive, selective and efficient.

Awards span computer science, electrical & computer engineering, materials science and chemical engineering.

Three UVA Engineering faculty members who received National Science Foundation CAREER awards will pursue high-impact research projects.